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Happening
at the Crossroads
August 11,
2008
by Coggin
Heeringa
Crossroads
at Big Creek has hosted a variety of programs during the past few
years. We have learned that the residents and visitors of Door County
are passionate about the Great Lakes. So we are delighted that the Door
County Environmental Council has select Crossroads as the venue for
their seminar: "Great Lakes Restoration: One Community at a
Time."
Guest speaker Jamie Cross, the Outreach Program Manager
of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, will offer an update
on critical Great Lakes issues, including the Great Lakes Compact and
invasive species. The program also will introduce a new
toolkit that helps communities plan, fund and implement local
environmental improvement projects.
If you are at all interested
in becoming involved in local environmental projects, you will want to
attend this meeting. And check out our Heritage Garden.
In
the early years of European settlement in Door County, most farms, many
homes, and quite a few general stores had gardens in the yard. Produce
fed the family. Summer was a time for preserving fruits and vegetables
by canning, drying, or pickling. [Pioneers pickled almost everything.
Winters are long in Wisconsin.]
So why did great-great grandma
grow oyster-plant in her vegetable garden? What kind of flowers did she
consider essential around her front door--and where did she get them?
How was her garden different from yours? Or was it?
Lee
Somerville will answer these questions in her Master Gardener lecture
at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, August 19 at Crossroads. In "Wisconsin
Gardens in the Victorian Age," Lee will present illustrations of
Wisconsin gardens from the mid-to-late Victorian Age. Come early for a
tour of the Heritage Garden at The Crossroads.
Lee's master's
thesis, completed earlier this year, was entitled "The Ornamentation of
Home Grounds: Changes in Recommendations for Wisconsin Vernacular
Gardens between 1870n and 1930)" She has worked as a gardener at
Heritage Hill State Historical Park and Old World Wisconsin. And now
she is a Master Gardener volunteer at Crossroads.
Crossroads
at Big Creek is located at the intersection of Highway 42/57 and
Michigan in Sturgeon Bay. The trails are free and during summer, all
are open people and their keen-nosed pets (if the pets are on leash and
under control.) The Wisconsin Wildlife Exhibit in the Collins Learning
Center is open to the public 1:00-3:00 daily during the summer.
Many of
the Past News articles may be retrieved from this directory,
indexed and named in the following manner: 080101-news.htm
where
the first two numbers are the year, the second two the month and the
last two the date.
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