Old Peninsula Days: Tales and Sketches of the Door County Peninsula

First published in 1925, Old Peninsula Days is easily the most famous book ever written about Door County. In writing it, Holand gathered memories and stories of early days on the peninsula and wove them into a narrative that has been delighting readers for sixty-five years. A few of the characters he writes about - people such as Robert Noble or A. M. Iverson, to name only two - seem truly larger than life, and some of the stories have become so widely known in Door County that not everyone who tells them is aware that they are quoting. Holand somewhat mysteriously notes that "two or Three...names have been changed, but otherwise it is true to fact." Many readers have puzzled over that remark and wondered what in the book was considered so sensitive as to require anonymity for those identified characters