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About Door County

Door County is the birthplace of the ice cream sundae, and it celebrates that event with an annual festival. It was also home to one of America's most famous circuses, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The county has a strong literary tradition as well: "The Door County Advocate" newspaper has been in print since 1851; "A Bad Day for Sure", by author William Durbin (1929–2006), won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986; while poet James Wright wrote many poems about his experiences living on Washington Island from 1954 until his death in 1980. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , making it Wisconsin's largest county by land area at . It is larger than three states – Rhode Island (1,545 mi²) Delaware (1,955 mi²) and Connecticut () – but smaller than Massachusetts ().