Har Herita
b Heathe Steinbere
I don’t remember the fi rst time I saw
Sturgeon Bay. It was in the early
1980s as I drove with my parents
and little sister to The Alpine in Egg
Harbor for one of those lakeside
resort vacations of which Midwestern
childhoods are made. It was a
time when people said, “We drove
through Sturgeon Bay on our way to
Door County.”
Never mind the fact that “Sturge,”
as locals lovingly call it, is the county
seat and the largest community on
Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula at more
than 9,000 people. It just didn’t make
a big impression on many tourists —
or apparently on me, until I moved
there in 2002.Har Herita
In the heart of Wisconsin’s Door County,
Sturgeon Bay carefully preserves its
rich yesterday, while celebrating a
vibrant, contemporary today.54 JULY 2017 | LAKELANDBOATING.COMPOC_SturgeonBay_JUL17.indd 54 5/25/17 12:12 PM