13th Annual (2008-09) Fish Creek Historic Inns Progressive Dinner Weekends as featured in Door County Living Magazine

December 5 & 6, 2008 December 12 & 13, 2008 December 19 & 20, 2008 January 9& 10, 2009

A MOVEABLE feast is the only way to describe a gourmet dinner starting at one of Fish Creek's historic inns, moving to another for the main course, and on to a third for dessert. The eleventh annual Progressive Dinner weekends, scheduled for the first three weekends of December and the first weekend after New Year's in January will once again be hosted by the White Gull, Thorp House and Whistling Swan Inns. Each inn is planning memorable weekend packages, culminating Saturday evening in a five course dinner complete with live music, as guests tour the inns, bedecked festively in old fashioned splendor for the Christmas season.

THE dinner begins with hors d'oeuvres at the charming Thorp House Inn, built in 1902 by Freeman Thorp, of the founding family of Fish Creek. Innkeepers Chris and Sverre Falck-Pedersen will be on hand to relate the history of the Thorp House, and serve the appetizer.

DINNER guests will then be transported on to the White Gull Inn by horse drawn wagons past the many homes and businesses decorated for the holidays. The 111-year-old White Gull, founded by Dr. Herman Welcker, is the oldest continuing operating inn in Door County. We and our staff will conduct tours and discuss the inn's history before serving the salad and main course.

GUESTS then will stroll down to Dr. Welcker's other famous inn, the Whistling Swan, for dessert. Built in 1887 in Marinette, Wisconsin, the Whistling Swan was moved across the frozen waters of Green Bay in 1907 to its current spot by the Welckers. The Whistling Swan is the home of five elegant rooms and two suites. The Innkeepers will conduct tours of the inn, before serving dessert. Live music will be featured at each of the three inns.

THE Progressive Dinners are open to weekend guests of either the Whistling Swan, White Gull or Thorp House Inn.

THE December, 2008 and January, 2009 White Gull Inn packages include two nights lodging, the Progressive Dinner on Saturday evening, a complimentary wine and cheese reception Friday afternoon, full breakfast each morning, and complimentary hot cider and popcorn Saturday afternoon.

THE package price is the regular rate of the room or cottage plus $99/person. Two night minimum.