Atherton, Neil D., “Neil Atherton (Audio interview and transcript), 2018,” Digital Collections, accessed February 21, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/41365.
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Neil Atherton (Audio interview and transcript), 2018
Neil Atherton grew up in Illinois near Milwaukee and came to Saugatuck in the early 1980s. He and his partner Jim Yarro operated the gift shop Hoopdee Scootee from 1982 to 2016. In this interview, Atherton reminisces about Hoopdee Scootee, creative advertising, the art community, and being openly gay in a small town.