If director John Stimpson didn’t already know he had found the perfect spot for his Christmas movie, Mother Nature reassured him during the first day of shooting at a house on the water in Ephraim.

“It was blowing snow sideways and piling up about 8 inches of snow. We went out and we shot a scene right out on the water, and it was just spectacular,” he said. “Happy accidents, I guess, but we couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

Much of making “A Wisconsin Christmas Pie” in Door County across three weeks last March and early April felt like it was meant to be. The natural beauty of the area, the charm of its iconic inns, the uncharacteristically cooperative weather, the endless good eats (pie and otherwise) and a dusting of something that even Hollywood magic can’t conjure up: heartfe

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