Coast Guard searches for missing kayaker Sep 21, 2009
Officials say he intended to paddle north toward Washington Island and return that day to his packed vehicle in the state park. The Coast Guard began searching Sunday morning after receiving a report that he had not returned to his vehicle. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Study: Tropical rain band shifting north Jul 3, 2009
Washington Island, about 5 degrees north of the equator, is now at the southern edge of the intertropical convergence zone and receives nearly 10 feet of rain a year. But during the Little Ice Age it was arid. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward Jul 2, 2009
One of the islands they studied, Washington Island, is about 5 degrees north of the equator ... But cores reveal a very different Washington Island in the past: It was arid, especially during the little ice age ... On Washington Island they found that evidence in 400- to 1,000-year-old sediment underlying what is now a freshwater lake. (EurekAlert!)
Wisconsin chef teaches cooking in forests, fields May 30, 2009
Swanson also plans classes at a creamery near Madison and a wheat field on Washington Island in Lake Michigan. On the Washington Island trip last year, he showcased the wheat with a panzanella salad made with wheat bread, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, olives and feta and scones made with granola from the hotel where students stayed. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Wisconsin's Door County is the place to be in summer Mar 24, 2009
Comprised of iconoclastically-named communities like Ephraim, Bailey's Harbor, Fish Creek, Ellison Bay, Sister Bay, Southern Door and Washington Island, Door County is one of those clean, quietly pristine places that seem almost like a throwback to the mellow 1950s, the old great resort towns of the Catskills, and television shows like "Ozzie and Harriett" and "Leave it to Beaver.". We were lured there by a friend's promise that it would be an antidote to my hyper-Type-A personality and a... (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
