Sixty years together is worth celebrating. Lynn proposed the idea of The Clearing, a place much like our local learning in retirement campus organization, except with boarding and food. The place runs on the model of a Danish folk school. It has been open since 1937 and runs classes in such subjects as photography, wood carving and bird watching.
We stayed there once for a week-long class with Prof. Jerry Apps, who specializes in writing about recent bygone periods of farming life. He has many books about family farming in Wisconsin decades back.
The communities on the west side of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula are in an order that you don't forget if you travel up and down the strip a few times. The bigger communities of Egg Harbor, Fish Creek, Ephraim and Sister Bay are more memorable than Ellison Bay but that is the one where you can visit The Clearing.
I know that it can be hard to believe but the food they serve is truly outstanding.
We called for a reservation but were told they were full. However, they called a few days later to say they had a cancellation. We were and are thankful.
