Fish Creek voices : an oral history of a Door County village

292 Pages·1990·7.987 MB·English

by  Edward Schreiber

FISH CREEK VOICES
An Oral History of A Door County Village
edited by

CREEK VOICES
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of Door County Village

CREEK VOICES
FISH
An Oral History of A Door County Village
edited by
Wm CAXTON LTD
Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Published by
Wm
Caxton Ltd
Box 709 -Smith Drive & Hwy57
Sister Bay, WI 54234
[phone]
Copyright 1990 by Edward Schreiber.
All rights reserved. Nopart ofthisbook maybe reproduced inanyformorbyany
meanswithout permission in writing from the publisher, except bya reviewer, who
mayquote briefpassages in a review.
Printed in the United States ofAmerica.
987654321
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LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fish creek voices : an oral history ofa Door Countyvillage / Edward & Lois
Schreiber.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-940473-15-1 (alk. paper) : $20.00 - ISBN 0-940473-16-X (pbk. : alk.
paper) $9.95
1.Fish Creek(Wis.)-Sociallifeandcustoms. 2.FishCreek(Wis.)-Biography.
3. Oral history. I. Schreiber, Edward, 1914- . II. Schreiber, Lois, 1910-1990
F589.F616F57 1990
977.5’63—dc20 90-38035
CIP
ISBN# 0-940473-15-1 (hardcover)
ISBN# 0-940473-16-X (paperback)
This book is set in a version ofTimes Roman type chosen for its readability and
attractiveness; it is printed on acid-neutral paper bound in sewn signatures and is
intended to provide a very long useful life.
Thisbookisdedicatedtothememoryofmy
wife Lois Schreiber, who helped in many ways to
organizetheinformationandsuggesttheformofthe
material included here. She eagerlyawaitedthe day
it would be published, and she shared every step
forward with me. It is my sincere hope that her
expectations will be fulfilled.
Edward Schreiber

Table of Contents
Preface
byEdwardSchreiber and Lois Schreiber ix
Before The First Man
by Duncan Thorp 1
The Village
Fish Creek Then and Now
by Edward Schreiber 5
A Talk At The Women’s Club (1975)
byHarry Schuyler 42
Cottage Row -Fact or Fiction?
byArchibald G. Douglass, Jr. 62
First Impressions
byLois Schreiber 71
My Years With the Fish Creek Post Office
byAnita Schulz
Growing Up In Fish Creek
Fish Creek Memories
byAllen Schreiber 81
The Seasons In Fish Creek
byHelen SchreiberAllen 98
The Hackley Tragedy
byRichardJ. Boyd and MichaelJ. Burda 126
Notes From A Conversation with Elsa Bartelda Carl
by Erna Carl Gilliam 138
Growing Up in Fish Creek
byDuncan Thorp 143
Families and Personalities
The Hill Family and Steamboat Line
byHarwood William Hill 153
Martin Kinsey
byAnn Thorp 170
Vlll Fish Creek Voices
The Ingham Kinsey Family
by Roy Kinsey and Virginia Kinsey 174
The Herr Doktor
byAnn Thorp 178
The Duclon Family
by Vivian Duclon Shine, Grace Duclon Lefebvre,
Lucille Duclon Hays, and ClydeJ. Duclon 183
The Thorp Family
byDuncan Thorp 189
Ferdinand Hotz
MD
by G. LeonardApfelbach, 202
Sketches From Life: Fish Creek Voices
byDuncan Thorp 205
Vlad W. Rousseff -Depression Artist
by Duncan Thorp 230
Ella Weborg’s Travels
byDuncan Thorp 232
Places and Institutions
The Peninsula Players Theatre-In-A-Garden
by Tom Connors 237
Chambers Island
byJoelBlahnik 240
How We Were Almost Killed by An Icelandic Cod, and
Other Tales of the Heritage Ensemble
by GeraldPelrine 249
The Peninsula Players
by Tom Birmingham 258
Index 269