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BARDS AND BREWS: An Evening of Sharing Poetry and Beer
Think of it as Door County's Algonquin Round Table, except the table is oblong! Gather with other poets and poetry lovers to read your own poems, talk about poetry -- and assorted other topics -- and enjoy incredible craft beers. Bards and Brews takes place the first Wednesday of the month at beautiful Starboard Brewing Company in the heart of downtown Sturgeon Bay. Whether you are new to poetry or have been writing for years, whether you live in Door County…
Find out more »Great Lakes/Great Books discussion group
A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as a setting or as subject matter. This month’s selection is Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye. Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father 35 years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially…
Find out more »Best Book I Never Read
We’ve all done it. Our high school English teacher or a college lit professor assigned a novel that we had every good intention of reading, but time slipped away. So, the night before the exam, we scanned the Cliff Notes or watched the film adaptation. We didn’t do so well on the exam. Here’s a chance to read those books without having to worry about your grade point average! Enjoy some of the fine crafted beers of Starboard Brewing Company…
Find out more »Great Lakes/Great Books discussion group
A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as a setting or as subject matter. This month’s selection is Barkskins by E. Annie Proulx. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests. In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land,…
Find out more »Best Book I Never Read
We’ve all done it. Our high school English teacher or a college lit professor assigned a novel that we had every good intention of reading, but time slipped away. So, the night before the exam, we scanned the Cliff Notes or watched the film adaptation. We didn’t do so well on the exam. Here’s a chance to read those books without having to worry about your grade point average! Enjoy some of the fine crafted beers of Starboard Brewing Company…
Find out more »WILD WORDS: Celebrate the Lands and Waters of Door County
Join Write On, the Door County Land Trust, and Crossroads in a night of storytelling about Door County’s most treasured natural assets, land and water! Using Pecha Kucha, a Japanese form of storytelling that combines images and words, participants are encouraged to share stories about their experience with our land and water. This program is a collaborative project of Crossroads at Big Creek, Door County Land Trust, and Write On, Door County, presented as part of Celebrate Water Door County, a program…
Find out more »Great Lakes/Great Books discussion group
A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as a setting or as subject matter. This month’s selection is North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast by Chel Anderson and Adelheid Fischer. In North Shore Chel Anderson and Adelheid Fischer offer a comprehensive environmental history of one of Minnesota’s most beloved places. Compelling and accessible, the book will provide readers with a science-based knowledge of the Minnesota North Shore watershed so that together we…
Find out more »Best Book I Never Read
We’ve all done it. Our high school English teacher or a college lit professor assigned a novel that we had every good intention of reading, but time slipped away. So, the night before the exam, we scanned the Cliff Notes or watched the film adaptation. We didn’t do so well on the exam. Here’s a chance to read those books without having to worry about your grade point average! Enjoy some of the fine crafted beers of Starboard Brewing Company…
Find out more »Best Book I Never Read
We’ve all done it. Our high school English teacher or a college lit professor assigned a novel that we had every good intention of reading, but time slipped away. So, the night before the exam, we scanned the Cliff Notes or watched the film adaptation. We didn’t do so well on the exam. Here’s a chance to read those books without having to worry about your grade point average! Enjoy some of the fine crafted beers of Starboard Brewing Company…
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