22 24 652 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2b77af0c2089272ccbcfe17f12b5308d.mp3 33df03e046afacf2313d90ff5b75bf27 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4a37b40a9a15d2f8c5fc5d1a1146cf9a.pdf cf8f3de14d42f5e563848d51db3c594a PDF Text Text Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 1 Nathan Neitering: Alright, here we go. Okay, this is Nathan Neitering I’m here today with Candace Van Oss at the old schoolhouse in Douglas, Michigan on July 21st 2018. This oral history is being collected as part of the Stories of Summer Project, which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Program. Uh, this is a continuation of uh, part one that got cut off inadvertently. So we will pick up approximately where we left off. Thank you again for taking the time to talk with me today. Um, can you please say and then spell your full name? CVO: Candace, C A N D A C E Van Oss V as in Victor A N O S S NN: Very good, thank you, um and so we'll sort of pick up where we left off which was um, your school memories at Douglas Elementary. Four classrooms you said, uh and you still see many, some of your former classmates around town, is that, that’s correct? CVO: oh yes NN: Okay, uh, and you have any teachers particularly stick out in your mind? CVO: there was, well, the one that was my kindergarten and first grade teacher was a family friend so right there, you know it was like, um, I had to call her Mrs. Wicks even though [laughs] she was Natalie! NN: Okay, yeah CVO: But, one of my classmates who was also my best friend at the time, it was her nephew David Wicks and when he had to call her Mrs. Wicks, [laughing] it was, you know, that was, that was. And there were three Johns, I remember the, uh, 3 or 4? Oh, John Thomas, John Rich, John Drepeck, and uh John Build and uh, a couple of Nancy’s and, you now that kind of thing. But I was the only Candace, so! [Laughs] NN: You were the only Candace, alright. Very good, um, let me follow up with some of my questions here. [Pause] Were there are other places in town, besides at school obviously, during the school year and down by the Kalamazoo River in Douglas where you recall spending time, other businesses or churches or other places? CVO: oh yes! Um, we spent a lot of time in the ball park which, you know now it's got statues and, back. I was telling my son just the other day that they had done nothing to the park when we were kids. It was had, been left for years. we got like this broken drinking fountain, you know, we knew that if we turned it on it would just spray up in the trees and there was still shuffle board equipment, nobody played and there were shuffle board courts, yeah the shuffle board whatever were behind these benches and we’d get them out and of course, you know! And uh, they did not, uh really you know fix the park. NN: It was not maintained? �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 2 CVO: Right, for a long time and uh but we had fun just goofing off and you know chasing each other. Watching the um, the little league games we had friends that were you know, playing little league and we’d go up there to watch them and they were all, used to be at night. NN: Okay CVO: You know evening, and then we go across the road, there was the Dinette. Which is now the Everyday People… NN: Café. Yes. CVO: They had, they stayed open all day and till like eight o'clock or nine o'clock at night, and so we would go there to get ice cream after because it was right there and we ride our, you know, ride our bikes and us girls, sometimes we’d, I had one friend I remember his name was Paul and he was playing the [pause] the game, he's he's playing the game… NN: Okay. CVO: And these girls and I wanted to grab a bike and go bike riding. So we said, ‘Paul’, [laughs] I said, ‘Paul, can I use your bike uh, we’re going to go bike riding’ and he says ‘No!’ and then another gal that was with us said, ‘Paul she is going to take your bike, okay.’ And then [laughing] and we just, you know absconded with Paul’s bike! [NN laughs] But, everyone knew each other then, you know, it’s a different time. If your, if the neighbors or the towns people saw you out any later, you know. It was like ‘is she supposed to be?’ NN: Somebody might hear about, huh? Yes? CVO: Yes, and they would call your parents! I remember one man called one night and my dad answered the phone and he said, ‘she's standing right here’ and the man saw a girl that looked like me up, we had a telephone booth and it [inaudible] you know and he thought it was me, standing in this telephone booth you know after ten o'clock at night, and so he called my dad and dads like, no? [00:05:04] NN: Wasn’t you, huh? CVO: Wasn’t me! But you know we spent just a lot of time hanging around and there were two stores that are, of course, no longer. One was a bakery. NN: Okay �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 3 CVO: It was owned by my cousins when I was very young and they made wedding cakes and, you know whole, whole thing. NN: What was the name of that bakery? CVO: Just Douglas NN: Douglas Bakery? CVO: Bakery, yeah. And then down the street there was a store and it sold, it was a newsstand and it also sold candy, of course and uh, Knickknacks and this and that, and you went and got your paper there every day instead of, of, at time having this delivery or whatever. You went and picked up your Sentinel at the, and it was called Tyler's General Store, Tyler, but we always called it Neevas because the lady that owned it was Neeva Tyler and she was so wonderful and if, in the olden days, it was there when I was little, if you came in with a quarter, [inaudible] [laughs] you would usually get a bag full of stuff and still leave with your quarter because she would, [NN laughs] She was a wonderful, you know… NN: Very generous with the kids? CVO: Yes. NN: Okay. CVO: And her family was you know, well, well liked around her they just lived a couple blocks away from the store and… NN: So the store both of those, those two stores were both on Center Street? CVO: Right NN: In Douglas. CVO: Where the, yeah. Where Neeva’s store is where the um, coffee place is? NN: Oh, uh, Respite Cappuccino? CVO: Yes, yes. NN: Okay, yep. CVO: That was that. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 4 NN: Okay, okay um, and you said you used to go get ice cream at the dinette, what was your favorite flavor of ice-cream? CVO: Chocolate. NN: Excellent. Do you have any other memories of being in the dinette? CVO: Oh yes. NN: What was that venue like? CVO: My, well as usual, it was friends and my mother went there every morning of my schooling you know, and she said after she drop me off at Douglas Elementary she’d go down there for coffee and they had a coffee klatch, you know, and the lady that owned it was my friend David, the same David whose, [laughs] his, his other Aunt owned the, the dinette and so there were a lot of times when we would go in there so my mother could have coffee in the afternoon and chat with, you know, the post master. And David would be there because his mother was waitress. His Aunt owned and his Mother waitressed. So sometimes David and I would just sit in the booths in the, in the back and I remember we're just learning to read both of us and we were reading Doctor Seuss, the, like Cat in the Hat, [laughs] but to each other. But, you know, we, we, yeah, we hung out there a lot. NN: Okay alright. Um, and the ball fields for, the poorly maintained ball field is where Beery Field is now, right? CVO: Yes NN: Right, right down, in downtown Douglas. It is, it's very nicely maintained. Um, did you go to church at all at local church? CVO: Um, later on. Uh, the Catholic Church that I talked about that across the, right across the street from our home on Washington Street. That became the Community Church at first in about 1965, start like the very end of 1965, and my parents decided since we lived across the street [laughs] NN: Convenient CVO: My mother had been Catholic we, um, went to mass a couple times but when I reached like uh, if you were Catholic you usually went on to the Catholic School. The Catholics had their own elementary school which was situated in several different places. But, my mother put in kindergarten, of course in Douglas and then she knew I was, loved public school and uh, she didn't go to the Catholic church that much, anyway any more so, thank goodness I got to go public school because the Catholic school was all Nuns and they even lived Downtown here in… NN: Oh, right at their site there? �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 5 CVO: Yeah. NN: Okay, oh interesting. CVO: Yes and that used to be a school down there too. NN: Right, right. Saint Peters, right? CVO: Yes, yes. NN: Okay, yep. Um, did you have any summer jobs here in Douglas or in Saugatuck? CVO: Mostly babysitting. Which was kind of fun because, I loved to babysit in Saugatuck because I’d round up the kids and take them downtown with me, you know, when I was a teenager so I could still get out and about but have the kids with me. And uh, I had another boy that I used to babysit for quite often on Douglas Lakeshore and he was, sweet little boy and it was back in the Batman era, Batman and Robin were you know and so we have to play Batman and Robin when I babysat, we’d have to put on capes and leap about the house but, hey, you know, I got paid to do it! NN: And it’s memorable now, right? CVO: Yes! NN: Um, did you spend much time out by the lakeshore? CVO: Oh yes. NN: Yes. CVO: Yeah, my, my dad's um, ah, that was his big business, of course in the summer he had to open all the cottages, turn on the water uh, I met many of his customers and they’d say, ‘oh, you know, bring her down, you know, she can go to our beach’ or I made friends with people that had grand kids and stuff down there, and the grand kids would invite me over. NN: Oh! CVO: Yes! And you got to be, you know, you got to have your own little stretch of beach because it was private NN: Right. CVO: And so we had many fun hours, you know, down, right down at the beaches. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 6 NN: Um, you mentioned going to Saugatuck High School and the math in my head says that would’ve been probably in the late 60’s, early ‘70s? Okay? What can you tell me about Saugatuck... [CVO Laughs] In the ‘60s? CVO: My ex-husband said I should write a book. Um, because I remember more than, than he does. But, the school, when we got there in 7th grade, our class was so huge, by then, because they had you know, it was Saugatuck kids, Douglas kids, Pearl kids, Glenn kids, yes. We, we had the best biggest class ever to come to Saugatuck and the principal and the teachers were all, kind of shook up because there were so many of us they had to divide us into 7A, 7B, 7C and 7D. And, um, we, you know spent the next year from 7 to 12 there and the school got so crowded because it was a smaller high school it’s no longer there, you know but then they were going to build eventually that one [inaudible] CVO: the school that… NN: The current school, yeah. CVO: but we had an open campus policy because there were so many of us that if you didn't have a class and you weren't in any trouble for anything you could just go downtown and go to the drug store, go do the… I majored in drinking coffee my senior year because I had so many credits that I’d have a class and then I have a big hour off and then I have a, another class, and you know, and, and, my friends and I made many many trips to town and there are two different ways to go. NN: Okay CVO: There were the front steps...but we’d take the trail which was, went past uh, on uh, Lake Street. NN: Okay CVO: Or you would go the back and there were back stairs, that now they kind of run behind the, I, I think it’s a, that arts center, whatever? NN: Saugatuck Center for the Arts, yes. CVO: Yeah. NN: Yes there is a separate stairway back there CVO: yes. NN: Okay. CVO: and, but that was considered the smoker, [laughs] the smoking kids. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 7 NN: Oh! CVO: Steps, if you were going to the steps NN: Back steps CVO: Yes. NN: Interesting, I love it. So what was your coffee destination? Was it the drug store or somewhere else? CVO: No, it was a place called the Corner Cafe which now is a Mexican restaurant I believe, on the, um, on, when you come on Lake Street also but, and um the family owned it, at the time. The one waitress, especially my senior year like I said, my friend Bev and I were in and out and in and out all day and after a while she’d say ‘don't you kids ever go to school?’ [Laughing] ‘Don’t you have somewhere to be?’ [Laughs] and, but, like I said if you didn't have to be there, they didn't want you there wasn't the room. They even put, a, portable classrooms. NN: Oh CVO: It was like in a, [laughs] they put up about I think it was around six. NN: On the property of the main school? CVO: On the property, yes. NN: Okay, hm. And you said your friend Bev, what's her name? CVO: Her name was Beverly Simonson. NN: Okay. CVO: and then her, she um, passed away in 1986 very suddenly and her brother was, is Bruce Simonson who is the uh, up, up until last year or so he was the head of the Public Works Department NN: Yes, in Saugatuck CVO: Yes NN: The Public Works Director, that's right. CVO: Yes NN: Okay, um, and Bev was in the same grade as you? �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 8 CVO: oh yes we were only about, her birthday was December 30th and mine is December 8th and, and so we were together a great deal. [Laughs] A great deal at the time. NN: do you, um would you ever go anywhere else in downtown Saugatuck, even on the weekends or after school? CVO: Oh sure. NN: Yeah? CVO. Yeah. Um, Marro’s which, you know, was uh, the big pizza place and the time like, well now you can’t. [Laughs] But back then, [inaudible] it was called something else and I, but owners were named Roy and Rose Krawitz, and you would order your pizza and you could just go in the back door, and sit in the kitchen with them if you wanted and wait. If your pizza was to go. And when I was dating what turned out to be my husband, now he’s my ex-husband, later. We remember going there every Saturday night and back then you could just go in, get served, you know, get out! It wasn't like now with the with the reservations NN: Yes CVO: and the lines, and the… NN: It was just the neighborhood pizza place. CVO: Uh huh NN: Right? Okay. I know you would have been pretty young, do you remember ever going to the pavilion before it burned? CVO: No, I remember going past it, I remember thinking like I was in a foreign country a little kid, to see a building that big. NN: yeah. CVO: But no, at my mother, of course, and her brother and her friends always used it for a dance hall, and just um, previous to it burning down it had become a movie theater or a while and I remember my friend Jackie lived right over there [laughs] right next door from this place um, I remember Jackie and her mother were talking about going, they went to the movies and stuff, but, I, no, I never was inside. NN: Okay, okay. But, you, you said you watched it when it was on fire. CVO: Oh yeah NN: So you saw the end, unfortunately, right? �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 9 CVO: It was on the news that night and everything, I mean, you know, it’s like, it was the end of an era for many people. NN: For sure and, and I bet your Dad didn't get home till real late that night, as the Fire Chief, or as Police, Police Chief at the time. CVO: Yeah NN: Yes CVO: Um, he did manage to see it on the news when it, when it came on but, and all the adults I remember that, were familiar with it of course which was most of them, [laughs] you know, most of the population were all just sick, you know, that night, just, you know, beyond belief. NN: Um, when you were in high school, what was your favorite subject? CVO: History NN: Oh! You’re in the right place, I think. Anything particular any specific era or just history in general? CVO: just history in general. I had our wonderful teacher. He, a lot of the boys never liked him but his name was Richard McFall and I, I was always very interested in his class and kept, they kept my attention and, and uh I just really uh, enjoyed, uh, his classes a great deal and he was only like ten years older than us really but you know he tried to be this bossy, you know, scary guy and I just you know, right, you know but he was uh, one of my favorite, favorite teachers. When he, when uh, we graduated, that, on the night we graduated, people lined up. You, you, the seniors would line up in the hall and then people that were at the graduation, of course come and wish you well, and shake your hand and kiss you and hug you, and I put my arms around him and said ‘I’m going to miss you so much’. NN: And uh, what year did you graduate from high school? CVO: ‘72. NN: 1972. Okay, alright and you were living in Douglas. Was there a bus? How did you get to Saugatuck, to the high school? CVO: Um, in the earlier years, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th we had a bus that would uh, be picking up the elementary kids and when he’d, they drop the elementary kids off in the morning and the bus will come through Douglas and pick us up. At one time, the place used the post office and the post office got sick of us [laughs] and they made us go down to, like where the respite is now and pick, and catch the bus down there. NN: okay. Alright um, and then at the end of the day you take the bus back to Douglas as well? Okay. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 10 CVO: Mhm and it would let you off in a different place. It let you off on Main Street across from the dinette, you know. NN: Okay CVO: in that corner there NN: Um, so how would you, how is Douglas, how would you uh, explain how Douglas is changed from what you remember of the community when you were a child? You still live here now, how, how, what, how would you describe that change? CVO: it's gotten, you know, so built up. There used to be a time when uh, when you went to the store. DeMond’s which was called Taft's year ago. When that, that opened when I was in about 5th grade and you just knew everybody, you know, you’d go in and, and it was only open till six o'clock every night and you had to get your stuff you know, by a certain time, it was, and uh, you know, uh it was like unheard of, a store being open, and you know oh my goodness and uh, so over the years with um, more and more population more and more different stores and different things they even sell now. I tell you the truth I even don't know, you know, what a lot of them are, someone says to me have you been to the so-and-so, no. [Laughs] NN: No [laughs] and, let me see. But you still, you still do see many people who you grew up with or their siblings or something who are, who do still live in town, so there still is that, a portion of that home grown component that is still here. CVO: Oh yes. Oh yeah, we, uh, have a good time when we do get together. [Laughs] NN: I was going to say, do you get, do you have a little group that gets together and, reminisces? CVO: We have before, yes, we have but not of lately, but, we, yeah. [Laughs] You know, and um, and that's always fun and funny thing is you always care about each other, which, is another thing where a lot of people go to school and never really know who they went to school with and, did, yeah. And uh, where, if we see another person, from our you know, our old thing they’ll say, how’s so-and so, or, have you seen so-and-so, or, so it's like a little network. NN: It is, it’s a little family almost, right? A community family, sort of. Okay, um, uh, I know you said when you were younger, you would, you could go to the lakeshore uh, because of the people that your father was, was working with or doing business. Did you ever know anybody else who was out in the Lakeshore area? Even as you were getting older, becoming an adult? CVO: Oh, um, yes, my, we had real good family friend and um, her and her son, oh, uh, lived on Lakeshore all year round. She worked at the bank in Saugatuck and her name was Leigh Showers and her son was Kendall, who, Kendall was very well known around here for a long time because he was a disc jockey or radio announcer or whatever, in Holland at WHTC. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 11 NN: Okay CVO: And so, knowing them was, and we had a news man who I was just talking to someone about this too. A newsman from Channel 8, their, one of their news anchors at Channel 8 moved here when I was about 6 because his daughter came in the first grade with us and his name was Bill Alan and he lived on [starts Laughing] lake, on Lakeshore too and everybody was like, it was like the local celebrity. Bill Alan! NN: And what was his daughter's name? CVO: Nancy. NN: Who, one of the Nancy's who was in your class, okay. CVO: Yes, she, she was a very, she graduated way ahead, she knew she was away ahead of us as far as, and, but it was fun to see them and, right, I’ve seen him on TV, you know? Whoa! NN: Um, we've heard some stories from other people that the sort of late ‘60s were kind of a, uh, tumultuous time in the community? What do you recall about that? CVO: I know that in the early ‘60s, when Dad was on the patrol thing and my mother and I were at the square dance… NN: Yes CVO: and we came home that night and we could hear yelling and screaming and shouting in Saugatuck and they, at the time were saying that Saugatuck was having a riot. NN: Okay, yes. CVO: And I don’t really, you know, I don’t really know who was involved or what happened but you could… NN: …so you were in Douglas… CVO: …in my room… NN: …by, by Lake Kalamazoo… CVO: …Yes… NN: …And you could hear the sound… CVO: …Yes… �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 12 NN: … of people across the water from Saugatuck. Wow that’s amazing. Yes. Do you recall [pause] motorcycles? CVO: Oh yes. NN: Yes? CVO: Mhm NN: Buzzing about town? Tell me about that, what do you remember? CVO: Well, they were kind of, you know, they seemed so scary at the time, they were kind of, you know. But, one time I was walking through Douglas and this poor guy, you know the guy with the black leather [inaudible] on his motorcycle comes up to me about 12, and he says ‘um, is this Saugatuck?’ and he’s got this, you know, really worried, like, I bet he’s going to cry look on and I said ‘No, Saugatuck is across the river, you just get on the bridge’ and he was like ‘Oh! Thank goodness’ you know he had heard all about this wild Saugatuck town and he’s Douglas and he’s going ‘I’m lost!’ NN: Yep CVO: And people before did stop me even when I still lived in Douglas, um, I moved out of uh Douglas in about 19, uh, no, 2001 and but people still would stop me sometimes and say how do you get, this one lady went, ‘Well how do I get the Ferry over to Saugatuck?’ and I said ‘No, no, you can just go right up here, there’s a bridge.’ But she thought Saugatuck was the, that you had to get there by boat. NN: That was the only way to go, was the ferry! Okay, okay. Interesting. Um, uh, do you remember anything about uh, rock concerts in Saugatuck? Yes? CVO: Yes NN: Yes CVO: Another Dad story NN: Yep CVO: My father was Saugatuck Township Supervisor by that time. NN: okay CVO: Man was, and they had announced that this man, that was a promoter big promoter in um, Detroit. His name was Mike Quatro and he was going to have this big, you know, pop festival like, like Woodstock, you know [laughs] and it was going to out by Goshorn, but was it accessible, you know, just through Saugatuck. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 13 NN: Right. CVO: and it was about 1968 or 9. I, I think it had to be about I, I was about fifteen. And the couple nights before they had a big meeting at the Douglas Hall over here because back then Saugatuck Township did not have a meeting place. NN: Oh a, a, okay. CVO: and my father was on a, at desk and people were yelling, you know it was not a pleasant meeting getting in his face because they didn't want all these people of course. You know, those hippies, and, and, and, all that come in here and he could not get an injunction. He did not get an injunction for it. So it went on! NN: So the festival went forward, okay. CVO: Yes it did. There were many, um, Bob Seger was there at the time he was up, just new. Uh, Ted Nugent. He was in band called the Amboy Dukes and Muddy Waters and my father did have to promise the citizens that he would go there every day. Speak to Mike Quatro, and just make sure that everything was, because people, our phone rang constantly and people were like ‘Where’s your Father!’, I was, you know, like fifteen and they’re going ‘We’re going to get your Father for this’, and I'm like yeah and um, so it was a very, you know, difficult time but we went out there. I went out there with him but the last you want to do when you’re fifteen and you think you’re really cool is going to this thing with your dad. [Laughs] NN: Hang out with your father! CVO: Yeah! And he's going to Mister Quatro, he's going ‘Oh, um, Can here, she's there somebody she wants to meet.’ I wanted to meet Ted Nugent, I wanted to meet him. And, and he says ‘What's her name again?’ [Laughing, Inaudible] and I did Muddy Waters. NN: Okay. CVO: So I, I did not realize the significance of that later until I moved to Illinois for a while and then when he died, I mean Chicago was… NN: Yeah CVO: And I’m going ‘I met him’ at the pop festival and my brother in law still has a poster from it and I wish I would've saved, Mike Quatro had all this really cool stationary that he would, he would write to my father you know various times about stuff and I did keep it for years and years but, one of those things, don’t know what, always wished I still had it. NN: Well if you ever come across some, we would love to see it. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 14 CVO: Yes. NN: What, what, did you meet Mike Quatro? CVO: Yes I did. NN: Okay, what do you remember about him, anything? CVO: Just that he [inaudible] small town, you know, and people were just lined up all over the place and the cars out in Blue Star, it was, it was a mess. And motorcycles like you know, it was, and you know people calling saying people relieving themselves in their yards, and you know the cars, and this and this and this, you know very many many complaints. NN: So your family was personally impacted by the controversy of the concert or the festival, yes? Besides what you actually experienced yourself, the phone was ringing off the hook it sounds like. [sighs] And how much longer was your dad the Township Supervisor after that? CVO: He stayed until 1982 believe it or not. He stayed there 14 about 14-15 years. NN: So his whole career then, was pretty much for public service. CVO: Right NN: First as the Police Chief, then as the Fire Chief and then as the Township Supervisor. CVO: And when you were the Township Supervisor you had many duties that they now have with someone else. He was the Sexton of the cemetery, he when someone died you had to get the books out, find out where their burial place was. Even meet with the family to show them where it was. He had to do all that, get the, write all the information back in the books. Plus he was the SSR. Okay, and then there was, uh you know, different but different jobs now, they you know, divide them up. But, he was very busy. NN: It does sound busy, the whole thing. The thing sounds busy. Um, okay I have a note here that says we may have missed a couple of minutes about um, the period when your dad was the fire chief. So if we can just rehash just a little bit of that so I have the whole story. Um, uh, you said that he was the police chief from which years? CVO: About 1950 to about 1963. NN: Okay, and then how quickly was he nominated to the position of fire chief? CVO: Like the next week. [Both laugh] NN: Okay, okay um, and you said that uh, where was the Douglas fire truck kept? �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 15 CVO: Down below the Village Hall NN: Okay, in the level, right? CVO: Yes. NN: Okay, one engine right? Yep, and uh, your family was involved with activating the siren can you tell me that story one more time? CVO: It was just a regular wall, you know, the wall switch you flip. It was in my dad’s den or his office whatever you want to call it. But we did sometimes have, if we had overnight guests, uh, they slept in there and so we were always telling them if you gonna feel around in the dark, you know for a light, don't, don't, don't flip that switch. NN: Don’t sound the alarm, right? CVO: And like I said I put a sign over it that said, this is a fire alarm, but and like I told you before if there was, there were like about two or three other people that did have the fire phone at their homes. NN: Okay, okay. CVO: But, like I said depending on who is able to answer and then a lot of times when the guys got down there, there was a chalk board there too and when theyd get the truck out and go, they’d quick write where the fire was so everyone else could [laughs] NN: They would show up and say oh we have to go here, and know where to go! Right? CVO: Yes, right. NN: That makes a lot of sense. You have to think about what the destination is right? CVO: Watching my dad and my friend Jackie's dad uh, if there was an alarm and they're looking for their shoes, looking for their, you know. Oh! [laughs] NN: He kept his gear at home? The fire, the fire, some of his fire suit, or his? CVO: He didn't. They really didn't really have much in it, they, I think he had a hat maybe, but I cent even remember [inaudible] He had some sort of pin. NN: Oh! Yes. So everybody knew he was the… CVO: Yeah! NN: Okay, he was the chief [Laughs] okay. Thank you for revisiting that. Um, uh, let's think about the future just for a minute we've been talking a lot about the past and these wonderful memories that, �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 16 and, and you know obviously you remember a lot of the detail which is, which is fabulous. Um, what are your some of your hopes for the Saugatuck/Douglas of the future? CVO: That it can that um, attracts other people to want to at least come and visit to uh, experience. We have the river, the beach. Um, the, um, many different beautiful sites if you, you know if you think about them, Mount Baldhead still attracts people and just that hopefully that they can just continue to progress, in the, you know the, uh tourism and the friendliness, but you know, like I said it still can exert, or whatever you want to call it the, the uh meaning of being friendly and it, sometimes it all disappears now but we were always known as the “Village of Friendliness”. [Laughs] NN: Yes, yes, Douglas still tries to use that from time to time, right? That motto. Um, what do you think some of the greatest needs are that currently face the community? at this moment in time CVO: At this moment in time. Um, I'm really not sure, it, it because it varies from to time. Um, we they have so many things that they plan and so many things that they do. we have the socials, I attended a social here, just a while back. They had the, the parades, every memorial day is still a big day. come out, for the parade, yes.. and and uh, there, um, I, you know, just get a sense of pride just for the fact that you know it's still here after all these years. I don't know a lot of the people around me, I’ll go through the neighborhood going who lives there now, who lives there. but it, it is nice that it attracts uh, residents and they enjoy their children's going to the school and you know that life goes on and but it's going on very well. NN: okay. Alright. Um, remember, we said earlier that this interview will be safe for a long time and that's one of the wonderful things about the way that we're capturing these is we can be able to access them long into the future. If someone listens to this recording, fifty years in the future say, what would you most like them to know about your life? CVO: how much I enjoyed it, how much fun it was and how um living in a small town like this, you just knew everyone and you enjoyed day to day life it wasn't any kind of strife, you know. You know I mean everyone had their problems. But and if you did you would all join together if there was you know, a problem or something happens, someone um. I, I have a very tragic story if you want to hear it for a minute, but. I had uh, neighbors when I was in, um, growing up and when I was in sixth grade so I was 12 and the neighbors had six children and they didn't keep their house too well and the kids, you know, it, it was kind of. Their Dad drank, he worked but he, he drank a lot and the mom kind of, was kind of lackadaisical about where the, you know the kids went. You know, where are my kids? Well one day she went over to Saugatuck with some friends and her, the baby was 2, his name was Troy and he was a cutie but he was always wearing just like a T-shirt and diaper [pause] and the women, for some reason all went in the house at this place and somebody had a donkey. This is a true story, somebody had a donkey in this corral. NN: Okay �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 17 CVO: And so, one of, they left Troy out there instead of bringing in with them which I don't. [sighs] he was 2 and someone says ‘what’s the donkey got in it’s mouth?’ NN: Oh, no. CVO: And he had mauled, he picked Troy up the stomach, and Troy passed away the next day and the whole town was like, you know, back then agencies didn't get all involved, it was like well the kid died, you know but they really didn't go into, you know that I mean. NN: Right, it was a different era. CVO: Yes, big investigation or… NN: Right. CVO: it was a just tragedy. So they buried Troy and that was very sad, eight days later was our last day of sixth grade. Troy had a brother in my class named Howard, and his sister Jean was, was, my age but she was a year behind me and we were, Jean and I were very, very close and I remember walking home with Howard that day after, you know, last school and he was with his buddies and he's kind of laughing stuff that my girlfriends and I were doing. But I have, um, I had to go with my dad that day to Kalamazoo, of all places. We had to, he had business there and then we were picking up a graduation present for Kendall that guy I mentioned earlier. Kendall wass graduating from high school that night and we went to a jewelry store or something and we got Kendall a gift. When we got home mother was crying, shes waiting for the, us to get home, and my dad was, ‘what’s the matter?’ Howard drowned that afternoon he was fishing right near where the Keewatin eventually was… NN: Yeah CVO: And he had hip waiters on, and he was fishing with another kid and he got pulled under and he was only 13 and he died just 8 days after his little brother. So this whole community was, I mean everybody was those jars, you know to help, you know and it was, when I think back to it now, I go now they would have people investigating their, you know, the parents that, you know the this, the that, the home life, you know what I mean. But it was, it knocked you down. NN: well for a small town to have that tragedy twice… CVO: twice… NN: …a row. Uh, what was the last name? CVO: Edwards. NN: Edwards, okay. even as a young person I'm sure you could feel the sense of community in the tragedy that was happening, I would think. �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 18 CVO: well, to be there in the midst of it, like when after Troy died, I remember all us kids because I, like I said they had a lot of kids and there was Jean and Noel, and, and Howard and a little one named Sally and a older one named Ann, and Ann's boyfriend came over after, uh the afternoon after the baby had died, like a Saturday afternoon with a guitar and was trying to play and, you know, make us sing and trying to cheer us up and all that. To be with Jean through all that, now I look back and I think, oh my gosh, we were only twelve years old. I, I, you know you, Jean had said to me that second, when the second tragedy happened she was up at the store for her mother, she, she walked home, she went around the corner, she sees the state police at their house and she thinks, well now, now and when she got ,and she said as she went down the hill she thought, I hope it's not my precious Noel, that was her younger brother and when she got home [inaudible] so that was a very tragic time. NN: Absolutely, absolutely. Um, potentially on a happier note, are there are any other stories that I haven’t asked you about or places or people who, I mean, I'm sure there's so many things but are there or is anything else in your mind that you want to be sure to share with us? CVO: Well, it's like, I just, like when I go to town lots of time I go, that used to be, and they used to be there. which my son said, he's doing now, he's a fireman for, um Saugatuck and he has to deal a lot with the um, township. He, he, he goes to represent the fire department and he said he's feeling old now because he’ll go, this is to be, he's telling these people that are not familiar with the area and he's going, this is to here and that used to be there. Yeah, he and Mark Becken. I said Mark's got twenty some years on you, you know yet even Brent is now feeling like this is used to be here, this used to be there, that library, was, they opened it for wedding receptions and stuff I can remember it had a dance, where the library part is now, was the dance floor… NN: okay. CVO: …thing and down below was a basement where it like, I remember going to a big wedding reception there one night and the, the people were dancing up stairs and all that and then downstairs was your food and, and otherwise I don't ever remember being an Athletic building, which they said it was. NN: The Douglas Athletic Center or something for a while, right, I remember hearing that. Um, so your son Brent, you said he is, he is a firefighter. In Saugatuck? CVO: yes he is a, um, Captain. NN: okay, wonderful CVO: and currently he's down, he had a back injury. Fell off a ladder, imagine that [laughs] and he currently can’t, you know, work but he’s been on the fire department for many years and he just, you know he’s, he really likes it a lot. NN: Do you have any other kids? �Candace Van Oss Part 2- Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 19 CVO: yes I do. I have a son named Shannon, and Shannon is going to be 37. [Laughs] Brent’s going to be 45 in a couple of weeks. But, Shannon, uh, both boys started out, their father works, worked for years for the Public Works, he worked for 43 years for the Saugatuck Public Works so the kids start out their summer jobs working, both, at the public works and eventually they both, Brent first and Shannon later on for the Kalamazoo Lake and Sewer Authority. we work field technicians doing work for that for a long time and then press wanted to become a full time fire fighter and Shannon had enough of his water licenses you know you have to have these testing and spending water guy and public works guy he also said classes. we're just bothering here. so you know it's kinda funny how it worked out. the boys. you know place is my father and their father and it was kind of a tradition generation generation. so both of your kids are still close I there but yeah. okay. one was in Richmond. just this is a little ways should me inside or outside. okay. alright. and just for the record. their fathers name. this is me Blair. okay. his father was. I don't remember but it was rejected on the HTC. was talking to challenges and this is. staff. bye. okay. so if you used to be the mayor of Florida Tech. used to go. when Brent and his cousins were born to do your part. okay. your let sister and I had our babies up at the community. she was me. start time. my dad was in touch. okay. that would have been in the early seven early seventies. okay. small town like you said the whole time. yeah. yeah. wonderful. I was there anything else that we didn't discuss. no I'm not really. bye Campbell if this is not some people. well I think one of the most important things about this project. is that we are really trying to capture what everyday life with money and people may say I didn't do anything special or unique but it's still web stories that all come together about how this family relates to that when these people went to school together and you know and that's the fabric that in fifty years or even five euros will be able to look over and stitch that together and that's why why. we are very excited to see the storage summer project. talking about summer and all year round. so yeah. so on campus. thank you so much for sharing your time and sharing your memories with me. this will conclude our interview � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/aa1ac36851f01ab0cc52addb1c6e1d55.mp3 4ff24cb2ae621f88dc5959ca4c94f31a https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/72b05b18043aaf63c8f5a071a33152b6.pdf bebb6e8c4b8b1e0108ad8f6676febbc4 PDF Text Text Candace Van Oss - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 1 Nathan Neitering: This is Nathan Neitering, and I’m here today with Candace Van Oss at the old schoolhouse in Douglas, Michigan on July 21st 2018. This oral history is being collected as part of the Stories of Summer Project, which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Program. Thank you for taking the time to talk with me today, I am interested to learn more about your family history, your family history and your experiences of summer in the Saugatuck Douglas area. Can you please share with me your full name and how to spell it? Candace Van Oss: My full name is Candace C A N D A C E Caye C A Y E and my maiden name is Cartwright C A R T W R I G H T NN: Okay, um and in your last name do you have a space? [Pause] I’m sorry between Van and Oss? CVO: Just, yeah. NN: Yeah, you do. Okay. V A N space O S S CVO: Yes. NN: Very good, um, so tell me a little bit about where you grew up. CVO: I grew up just down the street, on, um, it would be Chestnut and Main. My mother's, had a family home there that she was born, and my father and, when she and my father got married in 1948. They um, converted it into apartments because it was a big bed and breakfast at one time that my great grandmother had run. It was called the Fort Snelling [Laughs] and they, it had like seven bedrooms I guess, and you know, big house, and my father and mother converted it into two upper apartments and to two lower apartments and my mom's brother and his wife occupied one of the downstairs apartments. My Mom and Dad occupied the big upstairs apartment and then they each rented out, you know. And I was born at Kirby House in Douglas and uh, um I said the house went way way back to my mother’s father’s family and um, we we lived there until I was about seven or eight and my father had purchased the property adjoining it because the Catholic Church used to be across the street from that. The Catholic Church moved up here and my father got first dibs on the property where he built our house, our, you know a new house… NN: Right. CVO: …and his shop. He had a plumbing and electrical business and so, oh, we had, and he took a year, I mean it was just he had uh, different contractors friends you know like the painter, and the floor and the, you know the all different, the roofer you know, and since he did the plumbing and electric and all these other people came in, so took like a year, all together. But then one day we just moved across the lawn. NN: What was the address of that house? �Candace Van Oss - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 2 CVO: Um, the um, big house was 11 Chestnut Street. NN: Okay, okay, um and so what were your parents’ names? CVO: Marjorie M A R J O R I E, her maiden name was Fisch F I S C H. NN: Okay. CVO: And my father’s name was Ralph R A L P H Cartwright. NN: Okay, alright, and um, what year were you born in? CVO: 1953 NN: Okay, alright, and you said that uh, when the Catholic Church moved from sort of downtown Douglas by the waterfront over to the Blue Star. That’s when your family acquired the land next door. Okay, alright. Just clarifying for the record. What’s a vivid memory that you remember from your childhood? Either back at the big house or the new house or both? CVO: [Laughs] The uh, biggest things was remembering that Dad was the Chief of Police. NN: Ah! CVO: And it was a time when you used your own phone, you didn't have a, you know private, you know what I mean, you used your home phone. He had a little, um, light, you know to put when he was, you know when he… NN: To put on his car? CVO: Yes, it went on his car and he had to use his own car. NN: Oh. CVO: And his job mostly just required summer. You know that's when he patrolled more weekends of course Saturday night, especially. We used to have down at the tennis courts in Douglas, every Saturday night they had square dancing believe it or not. This, uh group of square dancers from, around South Haven or something that would come every Saturday night and um, all the you know, adults and all the kids would go up to the square dances because it was like the Saturday night and at one point when they have a little rest because they had a band and a caller and then the square dancers, you know, and when they would rest, uh, then the band would, the announcer, whatever you want to call, the caller would announce the Mexican hat dance because all us kids would go and form a circle and you know, do the, [Mimics “Jarabe Tapatío”] every, every week. But that was a big thing, you know? And um, my Dad would have his, he’d be off uh, in his uniform you know, patrolling and it, it uh, took him to, he had to patrol the lakeshore of course, in Douglas and patrol here and if Saugatuck needed an assist with �Candace Van Oss - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 3 something, which they did quite often, um, he, you know had to go to that and uh he did this for a long time. NN: Okay, yeah, I was going to ask do you remember how many years he was the Chief of Police? CVO: From about 1950 to about 1963. NN: Okay, alright. CVO: And then he wanted to um, you know, it was getting a little more complicated of course by that time and they made him Fire Chief [laughs] His uh, you know, Leader, his Leadership. NN: He was moving from one branch of the force to another, huh? CVO: Yes. NN: And so how long was he the Fire Chief then? CVO: Um, my son who is a fireman now, um, we were trying to think back. I think about ten years. NN: Okay. CVO: Maybe. NN: Alright. CVO: But, um, that was, wasn’t. We also had a, a, emergency phone though by that time, to the fire department and we also had a wall switch our on wall, you know it was just a regular, that, that uh, alarm put on the Fire siren which was located up at the ball park. NN: So was that ever tempting as a child? CVO: Oh yes! NN: As a child to hit the switch and sound the alarm? CVO: I put a, I put a note on it because we did, you know, you had people come over and just think it was just… NN: Just a light switch? CVO: Yeah! We never, we never tripped it up accidently. NN: Okay. �Candace Van Oss - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering July 21 2018 4 CVO: Luckily, but, you know, it was, if my mother had to do it, it was a scream because she would just kind of [imitates siren sound] you know. [NN laughs] CVO: But, that that's another vivid memory is, you know the phone ringing and then immediately you know, we’re turning on the siren. NN: So if the phone, if someone called you to say there is a fire, then it was whoever was in the houses’ responsibility to start the, sound the alarm even if your father was not at home at the time? CVO: Yeah, yeah. NN: Okay, alright. CVO: And then the Fire barn just used to be down below the Village Hall here. NN: Yes in the back of the [inaudible] right? CVO: Yes, it only held like 1 truck [laughs] you, you had to sort duck to even get in but that was where the fire barn was at that time. NN: Okay, alright. Do you remember how many fire? [00:08:41] � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Uh, I, uh, you said you’d call back in about half hour. Renee Zita: Oh! I’m sorry, okay well I have, is it good right now? Paola Onesto: Yeah, I can talk with you at this time. RZ: Okay, this, I have um, David Geen on the line as well, he’s the gentleman who’s going to ask you some questions… PO: Okay. RZ: …About Saugatuck. PO: What is his name? RZ: David. David Geen: David, David Geen. PO: Gene? How do I spell it? DG: Geen. G E E N. PO: G E E N, okay. David Geen. DG: That’s right and I’m here, I’m here with you, Paola Onesto? PO: That is correct. DG: Okay, and you’re on the phone here from the, from the old schoolhouse in Douglas and today is June 6th 2018, and this oral, this oral, I have to read this for us, this oral history is being collected as part of the Stories of Summer project which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities Common Heritage Program. So, I’m so glad to talk with you today, Renee told me that we, we had to have you as part of our program. So, so, I’m just interested to learn more about your family history and your experiences of summer here in the Saugatuck and Douglas area. So, but first I want you to tell me, how do you spell your last name? PO: My last name is spelled O N E S T O. DG: Okay. PO: First name is, my first name I spell P A O L A but I pronounce it Paula. DG: Okay. Like the Italian way, Paola? �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 2 PO: That’s right. DG: That’s right. PO: Well you know the era in which I as born, um, I have to assume that ethnicity was not something that wanted to be encouraged, uh, everybody had to become Americanized. DG: Hm, interesting. PO: And uh, so my mother gave me the Italian spelling, but she gave me the English pronunciation. DG: Okay, so your mother, your mother was? [Pause] Who was your mother? PO: Oh! [Laughs] Alright, my mother and father uh, my mother’s name is uh, Vacco V a c c o. DG: Mhm. PO: First name is Irene, I R E N E. DG: [Speaking over PO] Oh yeah. Okay. PO: and my father’s first name was James. DG: Okay. PO: We called him, he was called Jim. DG: So, did you grow up in Chicago? PO: Oh yeah, on the west side of Chicago in the Austen area. DG: Okay, and you’d come to Saugatuck in the summer? PO: Yes we did. Mhm, ever summer. DG: When did you start coming? Do you remember what year sort of that was? PO: Well, I’ll give you some of the history that I am aware of, uh, I know that my parents had come up here probably in the late 1920’s early 1930’s. DG: Wow. PO: and uh, they, my mother and father and my mother’s sister Anna, and her husband John decided they wanted to buy a piece, they wanted to uh, buy a piece of property and come up there for the summers and uh, so she, my mother had told me, now this is oral history. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 3 DG: Yep. PO: Obviously. Uh, and my mother had told me that uh, they bought a home on the, uh, [inaudible] side of the, of Saugatuck. On the western shore. DG: Yes. PO: And, and, um, she said that she, they had a small it was a small cottage um, and she said it was filthy and she and her sister worked a good part of the summer trying to get the place just habitable. In any event, while they working on it a lady approached them, a woman came down and she said her name was Hannah Mueller. DG: Okay. PO: She’s important because she owned a lot of property here at Saugatuck, and she said “Instead of trying to fix that place up”, she said “Why don’t you buy your own property and then build a place that you would like?” DG: Okay. PO: And that’s exactly what they did do. They bought the location where our cottage is now situated and uh, they had the cottage built. Now I do know that the cottage was built in 1931. DG: 1931, was the cottage. PO: Yes. RZ: [Whispering] What’s the address? DG: What’s the, do you remember the address of that cottage? PO: At that time? DG: Yeah. PO: Uh, I don’t even think they had addresses. DG: But it was on Park Street. RZ: What is the address? [00:05:00] PO: It was, it was, it had several different names. One time it was Ferry Street, one time it was Park Street, so uh, what we, since we never got mail delivered there we always went to the Post Office to get �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 4 our mail, and my mother I remember we had a Post Office Box, and we would get the mail, you’d have to pay for it for the season of course, and we would get, go there to pick up our mail and eventually uh, we didn’t even bother doing that because we’re no longer getting a lot of mail, and we would go directly to the window and we’d ask for, if there was any named, if there was any mail for the Vacco’s, that was, and I was one of the kids that had to do that. RZ: Well what’s the address now, Aunt Paola? PO: Uh, 856. RZ: 856, Okay. PO: Park. DG: Okay, so in the ‘20s and 30s would your parents drive around from Chicago? They drove up here? PO: They were driven up here. My, neither of my parent drove, they didn’t, they never knew how to drive a car. They were always driven up here. DG: [Speaking over PO] So they had a driver. PO: I’m sorry? DG: They had a driver. PO: Right. We’d always have someone drive us up, and it usually was a relative. DG: Okay. How did, do you know how they found to come to Saugatuck? PO: That I can’t be sure of, I, I do know a couple of names uh, but I’m not, I’m not really sure how they were introduced to the area. RZ: I thought it was through Uncle Aldo’s um, symphony friend? PO: Yeah, his name was Robert Mcdolum, McDonald, Robert McDonald was a concert pianist, my uncle was a concert violinist and uh, through them, my uncle, uh, was the one that came up and he probably had my parents come as well as his other sister, Anna and uh, um, but see that is a history I really really do not know anything about. But I do, I have some pictures, oh god where are they, uh, I have some pictures of them sitting on the um, embankment that was in front of our cottage. DG: Hm. RZ: [Whispering] that’d be interesting. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 5 PO: Now the people who, our next store neighbors was a man by the name of Kasparik, I can’t remember for sure if [inaudible] I know he’s in the historical book because I’ve seen his picture in that. DG: What’s his last name? RZ: Kasparik. PO: Kasparik. K A S P A R I K, I believe. And he was a bachelor and he lived there with his sister, uh, uh, uh, her last name was Romaine but she was married and a widow. Uh, and I think it was R O M A I N E, romaine, this is romaine and they had that gazeebo, which is still in existence, if you take a walk down that way. They, they would spend the summer nights sitting there and uh, enjoying the fresh air and I would go down, go down because there are 42 steps to our cottage, if you’ve seen it. DG: Okay. PO: And uh, as a child I would go down and I would visit them, we would sit there and talk. DG: So when you were coming up in the, in the, the I guess 30s and 40s and all that? PO: Oh yes. DG: What was the, what did you, what was your day like, uh when you came up during the summer for that? PO: Well, this is, these are my brief memories okay because can’t think, have a continuity with it. I know it was born, it was built in 1931 because that was year I was born. DG: Okay. PO: And, um, the, I also know that my uncle John, because he was the only one who could drive. When they decided to by the property, he came and put down a, what do they call it, earnest money? DG: Yes. PO: He came and he spoke with Hannah Mueller and put down earnest money and the amount of earnest money he put down, can you think of how much it would cost to buy that piece of property? DG: I don’t know. PO: Any idea? [Laughs] He put down $1. DG: $1! PO: [Laughing] $1! �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 6 DG: Oh my gosh, as earnest money. PO: $1 secured the property. RZ: Didn’t Hannah Mueller own all the lots, that the um…. PO: She owned most of that property, yes. RZ: All along there. Okay. DG: All along Park Street. RZ: So she owned where the Browns cottage was, and the Diffenderfers, and…. PO: Correct, what they, well, no, in their case, they originally came down and they would pitch a tent, in the area of Mount Baldhead. [00:10:04] DG: Oh. PO: and they, they did that for several years. Now not my parents, but uh, our neighbors and eventually they bought the property and had the cottage built, the Diffenderfer cottage and the Pilkington’s cottage. DG: So what do you remember doing when you came here in the summers when you were younger? As a kid? PO: Oh well, when, well when I was a kid, uh, I, I marvel at this because uh, my mother would rent a row boat, I can’t, for the season. DG: A rowboat? PO: And my brother and I would go out in the rowboat and we’d row across the river and we’d go into town. DG: Mhm. PO: And, well that when we were older, of course. DG: Yeah. PO: And uh, we would rent bicycles and we’d go bike riding around the area. DG: Oh! Okay. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 7 PO: That was one of the things we did. DG: Mhm. PO: Uh, the other things was that uh, we had a potbellied stove to keep, for, for heat! DG: Okay. PO: And, uh, we had to supply the wood. By we, I mean my brother [inaudible] and I, and we would go out into woods and we’d look for a deadfall. We’d find a tree that we could carry back to the cottage. DG: Oh god. PO: Then we’d have to put it on the horses, wooden horses and we’d have to saw it into the right size plank, lengths so that it would fit into this potbellied stove. After you did all of this, you would make, make sure you had to have it stacked and piled up in a, in a certain place. DG: Okay. PO: So that they had easy access to it. So, we did that. DG: Did you go to the beach? PO: Yeah, we did, um, but not every day at that time, not early on, let’s put it that way. Uh, and it was a, I can remember uh, I can remember walking on a dirt road where it’s just now, where they have the Oval, the road to the Oval Beach. DG: Oh yes. PO: And I can remember walking down the road and I remember resenting, my sister, who was, who was able to get a ride in a, in a, in a little cart that was called a, what the heck was the name, [inaudible] but it was a little, a sulky. It was called a sulky and it wasn’t pushed it was pulled. DG: By a person? Or by a horse? PO: By a person. DG: Oh! RZ: Up to the beach. PO: It was just, it was just big enough for a child and Anna, my sister, got a chance to ride it, but because of the distance was so long and it was not convenient because it was a dirt road, and it was not easy to travel, uh, we did not go every day. That I do remember. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 8 RZ: Didn’t you do the, um, the Red Barn Playhouse, Aunt Paola? PO: I’m sorry? RZ: Didn’t you participate in the Red Barn Playhouse? PO: Oh yeah, but that was much later I was in my teens, I was was in maybe 17, 18 years old when they, when the Red Barn was erected, or was bought I don’t know, I, or rented, I don’t know whether it, how it started and, uh, became a theater, and uh, I tried out for a part and I got it and then, uh, for several years during the summer I would come up to Michigan and I would participate in the plays. DG: Oh! That sounds fun. PO: It was, it was, it was a great, thing for me because it, I had, I got to meet the people in the theatre and find out what type of people they were and uh, and also it gave me a big opportunity to be involved in something I enjoy doing. DG: Mhm, did you go out to eat in Saugatuck? PO: Very rarely. DG: Rarely. PO: My mother did all the cooking and the washing, initially we did have hot water. DG: Oh. PO: At the cottage. There was no hot water and I have memories of my mother putting big pots of water on top of the cook stove, kitchen stove, and um getting it boiling and then throw it into the bathtub. DG: Oh. PO: Well of course by the time the water got into a cold bathtub it was none too warm by this time but we bathed in a very small amount of water and uh, that’s what that was done until much later um, but I can’t, I cannot tell you an exact date when we got a hot water heater, um. DG: How long did you come up for? Did you come up for two weeks, or a month, or the whole summer? PO: The whole summer. [00:15:00] DG: Well where did you get food? Was the grocery store here? �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 9 PO: Oh yeah, there were two grocery stores in town, and we rode, as I said my brother and I would row across the river. We would dock at some point wherever we could find a place to tie up the boat and then we would walk into town and uh, we were given chores to do uh, at, if weren’t, ah, one of the things I told you I think I mentioned that we would rent bicycles but afterwards we were given chores to do and one of them was to go grocery shopping and then we would walk back to where the boat was and put all the grocery’s in the boat and row back up. DG: What was name of the store, do you remember? PO: No I’m sorry, I do not. DG: But it was in Saugatuck, the grocery store. PO: It was in Saugatuck and where, where they have um, oh god what is it, my, you’ll have to excuse my memory. DG: That’s okay. PO: Where we, where we get the sandwiches on the corner of main street there? DG: Oh. PO: Ask Renee, Renee would help me with this, where we get the cinnamon rolls and the…. DG and RZ: Pumpernickels! RZ: Pumpernickels? PO: I’m sorry? RZ: Pumpernickels? It use be like a candy store before that? PO: That was a grocery store. DG: Oh! Okay. PO: It was one the grocery stores. We also had, in Saugatuck um, right across the road on the river side there was a small store that also was a place for these, the family [inaudible] lived. It was a large family, by that, by that I mean they had many children. DG: Yeah. PO: and they had basic groceries there and uh, again that was within walking distance and this was directly opposite where your mother’s cottage was Renee. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 10 RZ: Oh the Ferry Store. PO: The Ferry Store. DG: You never took the chain ferry across? You always rowed your own boat? PO: Uh, at that time, yeah, we always used our own boat. DG: Okay, did you ever do anything at Oxbow? What was going on there since you were at Park Street, it was kind of close? Wasn’t it? PO: Yes, no, I never got involved down there. DG: Never did anything there. PO: NO, because we were, you have to understand that with a cottage vacation you have a lot of visitors, I mean, everyone would come up and uh, the, and they would bring children! And we had all of our cousins would be there, we’d be climbing Mount Baldhead and we, we’d be hiking through the woods, and it was all outside activities. DG: There were steps going up to Mount Baldhead at the time? PO: For me, yeah. DG: Always steps. PO: Yeah, mhm. DG. Yeah. RZ: Do you remember when the radar tower was built? PO: I don’t recall, I’m thinking it had to be in the war years. DG: In the 50s. PO: 40s. DG: 40s. PO: I’m guessing, now this is a sheer guess. Only because of the necessity to have some, uh, something there to protect us I guess. If there as a, if there was an attack of some kind I, I mean, I was a kid. DG: Yeah, you’re not, yeah. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 11 PO: So I, I, I really didn’t pay any attention to it but I think it was built in that era. I can’t be sure, so I, I’m just, my memories of seeing it, that is all l can give you. DG: So when you got a little older and you had your own children, what did you do with them? PO: Same thing, pretty much. We, well now of course we’re driving so were going to other towns and visiting and uh, uh, we, and basically when the children were little, they loved going to the beach so that’s what we did, we went to the beach. We carried all the paraphernalia of toys and this and that and the other thing down there and uh, uh, um, we hiked, we walked constantly to the old harbor, uh, we we often would go to the old harbor because uh, we knew the way there and it was sort of um, an escape from the crowd of people that would be at the Oval Beach. It was not always called the Oval Beach, I don’t think that came until, um, maybe the 50s. I’m not sure when they called it that, it was always a dirt road and then eventually obviously it was paved. DG: Where’s the old harbor? PO: You don’t know where the old harbor is? DG: No. RZ: You don’t? It’s the old harbor that the boats used to come in on. DG: Oh! RZ: Where Oxbow is. DG: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s where you’d go, that was the river though right? RZ: Yeah, well. PO: Well, what it was is it originally it had been a um, lumbering town. DG: That’s right. PO: And then the sands shifted, the water shifted, and it became closed off, it was, you could not travel the, I guess the…. [00:20:09] DG: Oh. PO: …boats would come in and go up the river via that channel but it when the water got so shallow, obviously. DG: Yes. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 12 PO: That was no longer, they were no longer able to use it, and however the water was warm. DG: Okay. PO: It was always fresh. So, I mean Lake Michigan you could always rely on and uh, um we would love to go there to swim…. DG: Okay. PO: …because the water was nice and warm…. DG: Warmer. PO: …and again we had a, again it as very private and not too many people were aware of it…. DG: Oh, okay. PO: …and let’s see. DG: That’s the oxbow lagoon, sort of now. PO: That’s probably what they call it now, yes. DG: Oh! Did you go out, did you, when, did you go to the Old Crow? No. PO: Oh yeah, um, for, for dinners or going, if you wanted to go out for an evening when we were older, yes. Um, but our children made good use of the Old Crow, you can ask Renee about that. RZ: Yeah. PO: They would, they would uh, they got to know all the bouncers there. DG: That’s right. . RZ: Especially your daughter, Irene. [Laughs] Kevin! Kevin Mariani that was his name. PO: I’m sorry, Renee? RZ: The boy that Irene liked, Kevin Mariani or something, right? PO: I don’t know, I can’t, I can’t remember their names. All you kids had a slew of boys following you around and my husband was on guard duty all the time, he made sure that they behaved themselves. DG: That’s right. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 13 PO: Because, uh, he, one night he threw them out of the house [Laughs] and uh, because they came up around 11 o’clock at night. DG: Oh. PO: Do you remember this, Renee? RZ: No. PO: No, well. They came up to the cottage about 11 o’clock at night and uh, one of them, I can’t, there was about four of them and one of them came in with no shirt on, but what people now call a dago tee I think. DG: Yeah. PO: And and a can of beer, an open can of beer. DG: Oh. PO: And uh, my father, my father. My husband took one look at them and he knew them! DG: Oh! PO: Because they’d been around before and he said, “You, you, you get the hell out of here!” he said “If you come calling, you come at a reasonable hour and you don’t come dressed like that!” DG: Oh my gosh. PO: and he, so now we have tears. All the girls are crying. DG: Oh, they’re all crying. PO: [imitating the crying] “Oh, but, we won’t show ourselves on the beach anymore”. RZ: [Laughs] PO: [More crying noises] …. Harold says “forget out it”. DG: Oh my gosh. PO: So the next day, they, we were on the beach, I wasn’t but Harold was and he said uh, one of the young men came up to him and he said, “Mr. Onesto I want to apologize for last night” he said, “These people don’t understand about Italian families.” [Laughs] DG: Oh. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 14 RZ: [Laughs] PO: He says, [inaudible] He didn’t add that but he said, “I want to apologize, we should not have done that.” And uh he says, “You’re welcome at any time but come at a decent hour, and dress right.” DG: Oh my gosh, yeah. RZ: But now where did, when you were younger, you went dancing at the big pavilion, correct? PO: Yes. Yes. The pavilion was at that time, oh! That was the other thing, at night my sister and I would, my mother would give us a quarter and we would have to take the ferry to get into town because she wouldn’t allow us to row the boat at night and uh, we would, because every night they changed the movie. So there was a new movie every night and of course, when you were in the movies they would show a preview of the coming features, so we wanted to go there, so we pretty much ended up going to town every night and uh, Anna and I, and to, to watch a movie. Came out and it was still light. DG: Oh. PO: Wasn’t really, wasn’t dark. But you go to a 6 o’clock movie, but in the movie you got to see the feature, you got to see the news, you got to see a cartoon and uh, of course the previews of the coming features. RZ: Did you ever go dancing there? PO: Yeah, when, when I got older that was not when we were little, when we were in our probably our elementary school years. DG: Oh, so when you were little the movie started at 6:00. PO: Yeah. DG: And got done at like, 8:00 or something…. PO: Like 8:00. DG: And then the dancing was after that. PO: Uh, the dancing was always there. This, this pavilion was a huge facility. DG: Okay. PO: Uh, they had, just the area for the movies. DG: Oh. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 15 PO: …and then there was this huge hall, at least it looked very huge to me, and it was in an oval shape. Well it, it was rectangular actually but they had it fixed so that you, that couples would dance around. Now I can tell you this, my mother said that originally, they’re dancing in formals, gowns. [00:25:15] DG: Oh. PO: Then during the war years, it changed, and they were skirts. DG: Okay. PO: and then later on, I guess it got even more casual because they tried to go with slacks, and then shorts and they, they had a full orchestra at the beginning, I can remember that, and you had to pay 10 cents to dance. DG: Oh. PO: There’s that, there was a song called 10 cents a dance but that’s, that was for something else. Uh, but you, so if you paid 10 cents you could dance with your partner, and you would be, that would give you probably enough time to go around twice. DG: Oh. PO: You do the perimeter, say you were going around the perimeter, you would have an opportunity to get at least two dances in before you had to pay another 10 cents. DG: How fun. PO: Yeah, it was! RZ: Was there ever anyone that you were ever sweet on? That lived here? PO: No. RZ: No? PO: No. Not till I was older of course. RZ: But mom, my mom was sweet on, um, who was that? Norm Deen? PO: Norm Deen was one, he was a nice kid. He’s, I don’t know, is he still living in the area? RZ: Yeah, yeah. He is. Yes. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 16 PO: And I know I haven’t seen him in a couple of years, but then I haven’t been up there myself. But he would always ask about the family, about your mother and the uh, oh let’s see, boyfriends? I, I had a crush on a boy that was also a summer visitor and uh, he lives, he didn’t live in Saugatuck, he lived in this sort of a, off of Campbell, you know? The area, on the, where, the lakeshore, lakeshore. He lived along the lakeshore. RZ: Okay. PO: And uh, he was from West Point. DG: West Point! PO: Yeah, uh huh. We went to the military school. DG: Oh! PO: and uh, so I saw him, maybe four times. [Laughs] DG: Oh yeah? PO: And I, I, I, I, I had a crush on him. I don’t know why, how this, these things happen, but they did. He was very nice to me and we had a good time, uh, again, he could drive, and we go to Holland to see a movie. Holland was very very strict at that time. They uh, would not allow movies to be shown on Sundays. DG: Oh. PO: And uh, dancing was forbidden, so naturally, the kids got into trouble. RZ: So they all came down to Saugatuck, right? PO: Mhm, they found a way. There’s always, where there’s a will there’s a way. DG: Oh gosh, yeah. They couldn’t dance in Holland so they came to Saugatuck. RZ: They could Dutch dance. [Laughs] Okay, well that’s great. DG: Wow. Did boats, boats used to come into Saugatuck and bring people over right? PO: I’m sorry, would you repeat that? DG: Steam boats used to come into Saugatuck? PO: Oh yeah, yeah. We would, uh, the um, the Keewatin I can remember it going up the river when it came in it was a big to-do. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 17 DG: It’s big. PO: Everybody was standing on the embankment of their, if they had one, or going over to Mount Baldhead where you could get down close to the river front and uh, because that was public property and uh, we were, we would stand, well we were fortunate we could stand on our porch and just watch this thing steam up the river. So we watch it go up, and we watched it sail down. It was an event. DG: That’s fun. PO: That was about 40 years, I’d say. It was there a long time. DG: Yeah. Well I think that’s about everything. PO: Ah, I’m glad I was able to help you David. DG: Oh no, you’re wonderful. PO: So then, as I said, some of the things I know happened that I can’t put pin point a date. RZ: So I was going to share um, one of the pictures of you and mom on the beach, they’re going to put it in a book, is that okay with you Aunt Paola? PO: Oh sure. Oh sure. RZ: Okay, alright. PO: I have a, did, did, did you see the picture of my mother, your mother and our two, my two brothers and myself on the beach? [00:30:01] RZ: Oh yeah, I know, I know that one. PO: You know that one? That’s a great shot. RZ: Unless you have a better copy, and um you can scan it and send it to me that would be a wonderful shot. PO: Okay, I, I will try to do that, yeah. Unfortunately, the picture I have your mother is cut in half and I don’t know why that happened but that’s the way the picture was dissolved and uh, and she was, she was sitting on the back of Aunt Tina. RZ: There’s another one I have of you guys all at the beach, I have to look through the, the photos, but. PO: Okay, I’ll see if Harold can…. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 18 RZ: You know they’ll also take what they’re doing here complimentary is like all of Uncle Harold’s slides of Saugatuck, they would put them in a digitable, digital format. PO: Oh! Okay. RZ: So if, when you come back up here if you bring all those slides, they will, they will take them, right? DG: I think so, yeah. RZ: I think that’s what they’re doing. They’ll take the slides and put them in a, a, on a disc for you. PO: Okay. Oh that would be lovely. RZ: The ones he hasn’t done, because I know he’s done. PO: I’m not sure if he hasn’t got to that himself but uh, yeah, this, this would be uh, quite a, oh you know where we also went? Goshorn Lake! RZ: Goshorn Lake? DG: Oh, yeah. You went up there. RZ: When the flies weren’t biting. PO: We spent a lot time at Goshorn Lake, we didn’t always go to Lake Michigan, again the water was warmer…. DG: Yeah. PO: …uh, and uh, but it was more dangerous. It was extremely dangerous and uh, because it goes down at a 45 degree angle. DG: It’s deep, yeah. PO: and uh, and I, and the thing is we had all of these children, there was 5 of the Rinaldi’s, there was 4 of us, uh and uh, well and Richard went, my older brother was 10 years older than I so he didn’t hang around with us at all. DG: Mhm. PO: Um, but uh, I remember Vicky this, this scared the heck out of me. Am I, am I giving you, wasting too much of your time? DG: No, it’s good. PO: Um, we were sitting at a, a, you couldn’t lie flat because it was at this steep…. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 19 DG: Steep. PO: …decent into the water. But it was alright, and I, I was always on guard duty and I didn’t look for people, I counted head. I was always counting heads, counting heads, and I looked and here’s Vicky, must have been a toddler or I would say 4 or 5 years old and she’s in the water and she’s struggling because the water is over her nose. DG: Oh. PO: Now she’s standing but she’s probably, she’s probably standing on her toes, trying to get a, a, trying to get, grip the sand so that she can get out of the water and I have to tell you David, it was, so surreal for me because I’m thinking, I’m thinking that I’m moving in slow motion. I couldn’t get there fast enough and I’m thinking to myself, ”She can’t breathe, the water is over her nose, I’ve got to get to her” and as in a movie, or a scene on television I wasn’t able to move, I was going so slowly to get her, and I got her of course, I pulled her out of the water but she could’ve drowned in that water and we were all there! We were all there! And it was, it was, an adult could stand there but a child couldn’t. So that was, that scared the heck out of me, and so for sure I never, I never, when we went I never, uh, I never laid out. I patrolled the beach constantly, I wanted to make sure all the kids were okay. DG: Okay, yeah. PO: So, but I, she, she scared me and, and, and it was the most eerie feeling. Still feel it today telling you the story, how I wanted to get to her but I couldn’t get any traction with my feet and I couldn’t get there, and it, it was terribly terribly terribly frightening for me. DG: Hm, well you saved her. PO: I saved her. Thank god. DG: Good. Good. PO: But she’s still running around. DG: She’s still running around. PO: She’s got a beautiful I understand, on the lake. DG: Yes she does. Yep. PO: So. RZ: Okay, well thank you for your time Aunt Paola. DG: Yes! Thank you. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 20 PO: Oh honey I don’t mind, I enjoy talking to, I, probably other ideas will pop up in my head. Like I just thought of Goshorn Lake, we spent a lot of time there. DG: Yeah, no this is great. RZ: And remember to mention if those slides you want, they, they’ll take them and put them in the digital format, so, if you want to bring them up next time you come. PO: Okay, I’ll tell Harold, now that’s his domain. RZ: Alright. [00:35:01] DG: Okay. RZ: Tell him Renee asked him to. Okay. PO: Okay, I shall. RZ: He doesn’t have to do them, he just needs to bring them here. PO: Okay, and do you want some strawberry pop? RZ: And strawberry pop, that’s right. [Laughs] Okay. That’s an inside joke. PO: Renee she liked strawberry pop and Harold always brought her a bottle of strawberry pop. DG: That’s fun. RZ: That’s right. DG: Oh gosh. RZ: Alright Aunt Paola. DG: Well thank you. PO: Oh, you know one other thing what we did in the cottage? RZ: What’s that? PO: You want me to keep you on the line longer? RZ: Just, another minute, go on, tell us the story. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 21 PO: Okay, on, in Saugatuck remember we have no ceilings, over our bedrooms. RZ: Yeah, we had no ceilings in our cottage. DG: Okay. PO: The way the cottage is built. RZ: A loft. PO: The roof is our ceiling. But the roof only has walls, they don’t have any ceilings. DG: Oh. PO: So as kids we would get into pillow fights. DG: Oh. PO: We would throw the pillows back and forth over the walls. RZ: The rafters. DG: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s fun. PO: So, we, until my mother couldn’t stand it anymore and that was the end of that but really that uh, that was one of the fun things that we would do, crazy things like that. DG: Yeah! PO: And uh, but uh, for me they’re great memories. DG: That’s great. PO: Glad I got to share them with the kids. Anyhow David, I hope this gives you information…. DG: No, you’ve, wonderful things, I’m sure it will be great to have. RZ: Alright Aunt Paola, thank you! DG: Thank you. PO: You’re welcome sweetheart, and uh, I hope to see you up, when we get back. RZ: Yeah! Okay. PO: I can’t tell when, because we see a lot of doctors you know. �Paola Onesto – Interviewed by David Geen and Renee Zita June 6 2018 RZ: Okay. PO: Okay honey. DG: Okay, thank you! RZ: Alright, love you! Buh-bye. DG: Uh huh, bye. PO: And nice talking to you David. DG: Same here. PO: You’re welcome. 22 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9f060fea6bd5068c6fa31d7765f43c0a.mp3 8f4367ac48a9054e2ea64d57250e6436 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7d0686f32d7e22da4c5aba91b6b0d336.pdf 53ca9bf9ae2595c9d6dcbda509ff82ef PDF Text Text Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 1 Ken Kutzel: This is Ken Kutzel and Katelyn... Katelyn Bosch: Bosch. KK: Katelyn Bosch, and were here today to, uh, with, uh, Bob Lord, uh at the old school house in Saugatuck, I’m sorry in Douglas Michigan, and let’s see today is June 4th, uh 2018. This oral history is being collected as part of the Stories of Summer project, which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Program. Thank, uh, Bob, thanks for talking with us today and were interested to learn more about your family history and your experiences of summer in the Saugatuck Douglass area. Can you please tell me your full name and spell it? Bob Lord: [Laughs] Well, nobody calls me Robert but that’s what it is. Robert William Lord. L O R D. Then just call me Bob. KK: Okay, and um, do you – oh you don’t use any accents or anything so, tell us about where you grew up. BL: Well I grew up in Charlotte, which is hometown, center part of the state, uh, I was, I was born there 1945, and uh, and that was hometown until 1976. I graduated high school there and I was tool and die maker there for a number of years, and then I went into Field Sales Engineering and from there in ’76 I migrated to the Holland area and went to work for Bone Aluminum as a Field Sales Engineer and uh, consequently that drew me to this side of the state. Um, my wife and I ended up in 1978 purchased a property in Saugatuck on the corner of Holland and Lucy Street, and the property had no gas, meters had been pulled, the electric meters on both houses had been pulled and the water meter had been, the water had been shut off. And I say both houses because there is a Singapore house on that property. The main house uh, was about 2400 square feet and the Singapore house was probably 820, 840 something like that. KK: Singapore house would mean it was moved from Singapore. BL: It was moved from Singapore and we had the original abstract which stayed with the house and um, which I just recently sold. Um, but the Singapore house, the abstract reflected that the taxes changed in the winter of 1874, 1875 and so we suspected that when the prop, the house had been moved. We had been told by, and I don’t remember who had told us that, but it had been separated in two and skidded up the channel on ice and then reassembled on the property and then the main house, uh was started construction sometime thereafter. Um, the main house actually had been called, when we bought it, had a sign out front, called ‘The 1894 House’, and the reason for that was because there was an addition made to that, that property, that house uh, that the cornerstone laid at the very front and that was the parlor and the master bedroom above it, um that had that date on it. Leslie Junkerman who was as Justice of the Peace, ended up, held court in the front parlor, and consequently we had had from time to time people that would knock on the door and want to come in and say ‘oh, yeah we were married in your front parlor, could we look at it’ and so on and so forth, so uh, but that gives kind of a brief �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 2 thumbnail of, of that property. I don’t know if I could tell you anything more about it than the people we bought it from [pause] Jim and Pam Davis were the previous owners to us and she was a Potter and the what is now kind of an office, secondary apartment uh, was where her studio was, and um, anyway Jim was a Pharmaceutical Representative of some sort and um, it had really fallen onto bad times. It was, the main house had had a fire in it, and like I said all the, everything had been shut off so when we bought it we were digging in and going for, going for the walls as far as putting everything back to right. [00:05:29] KK: Uh, I spoke with you once before Bob about the fact that uh you have some knowledge about the houses around you? BL: Oh! KK: …and that some of them were from Singapore, can you elaborate on that? BL: Well, you know, from the standpoint, yes. Um, headed toward the channel which would be west, next door neighbor was Marlene Ansorge, she lived there when we bought the property but the next, the next house over Betty Watson at that time, she later married uh, Warren Mulder, uh, ah, we were told that was, had been a Singapore house now I, I can’t substantiate that because some of the people that we had talked to, either have passed or don’t remember anymore, and so on. But, I know that the house on the other side of that one, which would be 1, 2, 3 down from us, that had been, um, purchased and a second story elevated to that house and that was a Singapore house and then I think, um, the property called Filamare, I believe that was a Singapore house as well. The interesting thing about that block was that our back property line was constant from Holland Street all the way to Butler Street. We shared that common back, uh, back lot line and that, in fact you could, if, from, from the air you could look down and see the, that track right on through. Interesting piece of property. Betty Watson, Betty Mulder told us that her Uncle had owned everything on that street from Holland Street to Butler Street at one time, which would’ve gone back, probably 1870. KK: And you’re talking about what street is that? BL: That’s Lucy Street. KK: Lucy Street. BL: Lucy Street. KK: Okay. BL: Holland Street, it would kind of, I’ll call it parallel to Lucy Street, but and, if you look at, the, the actual survey of that corner property the um, 748 746 Holland Street the one corner marker for that property is out in the middle of, I should shouldn’t say middle, but it is out in the right hand traffic lane of Lucy Street. If you measure from one corner to this corner to that corner, it’s an oddball shape its �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 3 right out in the middle of that one lane. So, the city actually owe, owns, owes, owes me some back tax money I think I should probably get. KK: Yeah, good luck. BL: Yes. Anyway. KK: Um, why did you locate in Saugatuck Douglas? BL: Well, um we were renting a place up in Macatawa Park and this goes back to ‘77 ‘78. My wife had taken a job over in what is considered the Haworth Building, she worked for a company called Flame Tech as a Office Manager everything taken care of payroll, this and that and whatever, and um, I was working for Bone Aluminum and consequently I’d pick her up from after work and I’m, we just took a jaunt down Water Street crossed the bridge, and I took the first right hand turn once I could, could take a right hand turn up past the congregational church and down the hill, and on Holland Street, and this is the month of February and I see this mustard colored house with cream trim and I’m thinking ‘Wow! Look at that!’ and she said the same thing, and in the snow, sticking up about this far above the snow and I’m showing you about 4 inches of height, there’s a for-sale sign and I’m thinking ‘Oh my goodness’. Well through the course of events we were able to purchase it and did a lot of back-tracking because the people that had owned it, had left the area and so on. But, we thought it was [chuckles] a quaint area, like a fishing village from Massachusetts Connecticut someplace out there. Well that’s not quite the case. [00:10:24] KK: That would be about what year? BL: Ah, it would be 1978, and we closed on the property on May the 4th and started working it on May the 5th because we had to be out of the property that we were renting up in Macatawa Park by the end of May. So do you know, when we moved would’ve been? Memorial Day weekend! Now, if you’ve been around Memorial Day weekend you know that it is like ‘Holy Smokes! What did we get ourselves into?’ Nothing but traffic and confusion and it was um, to put it very bluntly, it was like a madhouse. But, we got through it, um, we raised uh, her two kids, we adopted another one and my three kids from time to time were here and the main house was just that, it now became a residence and uh, there’s four bedrooms upstairs and one bedroom down, a parlor, and so on and so forth. But, very nice community, good school system, great school system in fact. KK: Uh, what was your first impression of the area? BL: Yeah [laughs] moving on Memorial Day? Yeah, the first impression was when we saw that house, and that was like ‘Oh my goodness look at this’, it, it was an amazing thing. I, I truly did, the house was everything I thought it was, it had enough gingerbread on it, just to be more than attractive and ah, it looked like it needed saving so we did. �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 4 KK: And so you really did not have earlier contact with uh, Saugatuck or anything? BL: No, I had been here once in high school, back, went to Oval Beach when I was in um, our, our, I was in DeMolay and our whole, our whole lodge came over to the, um, to Oval Beach once, one Saturday, and uh, that was the only contact I’d had with it, never knew what it was like. KK: Any special memories of Oval Beach at the time? BL: Hm, not at the time because that would’ve been, I was probably 16 or 17, and that’s um, [whispers] that’s over 50 years ago. KK: Can you share any particular memories about living here, besides what you have, anything good or bad that just kind of stands out? BL: Um, the academics that are here. The school system is amazing. The um, the class sizes at the time that, that, um my stepson and my stepdaughter were in, were you know 30 35 kids so it was a 1 on 1 and the competition between students was amazing. The National Honors society always struck home um, Jack was actually for the college entrances on was, should’ve been Valedictorian but was um, Salutatorian. Anyway! It’s, it’s the school system that was a draw. KK: Ah, what were the um, the key places in Saugatuck and Douglas that you liked to hang, hang out in or go to? BL: Hm, oh I’d go down to the Butler, to the restaurant, um, over in well, now, now I don’t think it was at the time but Ida Red’s for breakfast once in a while. Um, Jack was working for, Jack my stepson, he uh, worked for Henry Gleason, right there beside the boat launch, and uh, in fact we ended up helping Henry and Claire Deen at the time that they were running the store, and of course um, Bruce and Marilyn Staring they ran the, um, Star of Saugatuck the paddle wheeler that was right next store so we knew that, and took advantage of that every now and again. Would ride that every once and a while. KK: Okay, um, doesn’t affect you there, uh, how aware were you of the LGBT community here? [00:15:02] BL: How aware? KK: Huh, yeah. BL: Oh, I just, I never really paid too much attention, to it really, I mean I, I knew it was here, didn’t matter one way or the other. KK: Yeah. BL: I was a, I’m a, a ‘Live and let live’. �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 5 KK: Okay, uh, let’s see…and I guess the other question I would want to ask you, did you have any contact with the art school or any… how aware were you as somebody living here of the art school and what went on there? BL: I, I knew that it, you mean Oxbow? KK: Oxbow, yes. BL: I knew that it was there, I never really visited it as far as going out and taking a tour of it, but I knew, uh, my, my one, my one daughter ended up having a, um, a stepson that was doing um, artwork over there. Back, this goes back probably 30, yeah maybe 25 years ago and so on, but I knew it was there and knew that it was rather prestigious from the standpoint that, you know, ‘Oh you’re in Saugatuck, ah! You know where Ox…” Yes, I do, I know where Oxbow is but I never, I, I, was always out on the road working so, I never really took advantage of it. Wish I had though. KK: Yeah. Uh, how would you describe Saugatuck Douglas to somebody who’s never been here? BL: That’s a really good question because, during, during the off season, you could fire a shot gun off down Lucy Street and probably not hit anything. Ah, but during the season, I think a good description would be you go from 2,000 people during the offseason, wintertime, and during the season, it elevated to probably 20,000 people because of the outlying area and so on so forth. It’s a tourist community, there’s no doubt about that, it has a good draw, the restaurants and the stores everybody comes to town for that um, but candidly I would tell people that if you’re looking for a good restaurant, a nice place to stay, you can’t get to the beach from the Saugatuck side of things you have to go across, the, the bridge and then take a hitch and a giddy up. You know what a hitch and a giddy up is? Going that-away, um you know, long story short, yeah its its it’s good place to visit. KK: Okay, and how would you compare the area to other places you’ve lived and worked? BL: Oh. Hm, well, my growing up I was in a rural area. I actually lived in the Charlotte area, there’s no real comparison because it was, Charlotte was farm industrial community, were, Lansing, Lansing’s bedroom. Oldsmobile was there, Fisher Body was there and uh, and in my hometown there was the Aluminum extrusion company and uh, a glass factory that would, uh, would manufacture Gerber baby food jars and uh, S-Strohs stubby beer bottles. So here’s this one community that I came from in 1976 all the way over here to the west side of the state, and [inaudible] there’s, it’s like apples and plums. It’s not the same. KK: Okay, um, do you have any specifically, or, favorite memories of the summer time here? BL: [Laughs] Venetian Night. KK: Well, talk about it. �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 6 BL: One, the traffic and so on getting out of town. We were sitting on the front porch, in the dark, watching the traffic try to get out of town. Try to get out of town was the key, cause this was before somebody really got a hold of it and organized it, this was probably would’ve been the early 80’s, somewhere in there and, [pause] is this going to be re-listened to and edited possibly because, one of the people that was in one of the cars, she got out the car ran up to our porch, did not see us and proceeded to relieve herself in our bushes! [00:20:05] [All laugh] BL: ...and my wife ended up taking her sprinkling can, stood up, and just poured the sprinkling can right on top of her head! [Imitates person complaining] Oh! Talk about wet hen! Ah, yeah. That was probably the highlight of it. After a while, you know Jack ended up getting a scholarship to Alma College, and we bought a cottage up north by uh, Lakeview and consequently weekends were spent up there so that the traffic and so on, we didn’t really partake in that and so on, but it, it was, it’s still a nice community. KK: Uh, let’s see, what type of shenanigans did you get into? Were you a participant, an instigator, or bystander of mayhem? BL: Uh, I was a bystander. I would never, never end up getting in. I just watched her take the sprinkling can and dump it on top of this woman’s head. No, no, I think probably the wildest thing was every now and then I’d fire up my motorcycle and run down the street and Jimmy VanOss and his crew down the street would “Hey!” Cheer and, oh well. KK: Well you um, you actually moved here after the, the um, the rock festivals and all that... BL: …Yes... KK: ...So you wouldn’t remember that. BL: No, it was ’78 when we moved here. KK: Yeah, uh, and um, [pause] how would you describe Saugatuck Douglass as you best remember it from, from this era? That would be the era like, when you moved here. BL: Boy. KK: I know. You gave us several examples already. BL: I just, you know, the one thing that changed, uh, that my wife prompted, she got after the state police for having people walking into town down our street from Holland Street from either the boat launch or from other places and so on with open container. And that would’ve been probably, the early 80’s, ’84, ’85 and yeah that’d be about right because Jack and Bryan Earlywine would stand on the �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 7 corner and the state police would have everybody dump their coolers, their beer cans, everything, and the kids would pick up their cans and cash them in down at Gleason’s! And I remember the guys doing, you know, great big grocery sacks full of that, and, and that pretty much ended the rowdiness, uh, it became controlled chaos rather than wild chaos. KK: Yeah. BL: It, it did, it got out of hand if anybody has ever rafted off in front of Coral Gables, or down to the Singapore Yacht Club, I don’t think they do it down there, I think it’s more down in front of Coral Gables. When you raft off you have to go 1, 2, 3, 4. People that have not done boating don’t get that! Yeah. Have you done boating? KB: Not very much. BL: Do you know what I’m talking about? KB: Oh, yeah I do. BL: Oh, okay, yeah. KK: Ah, what are some of your hopes for the future? I know you just sold the house. Um, and what would you like to see happen in this community? BL: [pause] I can’t think of any reason why someone would want to have the road divided, from the bridge on into Douglas. That is a travesty, that’s a mess. Somebody is going to get hurt, killed, whatever, that, that’s, that was not well thought of. KK: Okay, and you’re referring to something that their working on right now. BL: Yeah! Yeah! That’s terrible. I’m you know a, if, if it were my vote I’d vote that right out right now and it’d be gone. That’s crazy. Somebody just wasn’t thinking right. KK: Um, remembering that this interview will be saved for a long time, when someone listens to this tape 50 years from now, what would you most like them to know about your life and community right now? BL: My life and community, hm, [pause] Well you know that I’m not a very friendly guy. [00:25:03] KK: [Laughs] BL: I’ve enjoyed and Ken, where I met you was at the Saugatuck Antique Pavilion, and you know how much I enjoyed, still would enjoy doing the communication and the elbow rubbing of customers and people that work there. You know I, just the very fact that, that [pause] try not to hurt anybody’s �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 8 feeling, you know somebody needs a hand, help them! Someone needs a door opened, open it for them! Somebody needs something loaded for them, load it for them! Just to be, do unto others I guess is probably a good thing. Yeah. KK: Do you have any advice for a young person who may listen to this tape, although I think you just gave some good advice. BL: [pause] Stay in school. Stay in school. That’s your paycheck for the future and you don’t realize it right now, ‘Oh my goodness this is terrible, I hate going to school. The classes are this and that’ Stay in school. That is, that is, that is the draw the education is that jewel that you can end up losing by passing it along to other people. Dig in, go for it. I just graduated 2 grandsons, one over out of Lansing Catholic and another one out of Olivet and I look at these kids and I think, we might make it. As a society, we might make it, finally. Anyway. KK: Ah, is there anything that you’d like to share that I might not have asked about? This is your chance to just go for it. BL: [Laughs] You mean I didn’t before? Uh... KK: I know you too well. BL: No, I, you know, I from time to time will be coming back here. Um, right now I’m still sorting through boxes, and I still have things in the cargo trailer that, from the move a month ago. In fact, just for one little high note, and that was, or low note that, that the property we owned it. I just cleared May the 4th this year, so from May the 4th of 1978 to May the 4th of 2018 I was here exactly 40 years. Exactly 40 years, and it was a, it was like [snaps] a snap. I had hair color when started here. KK: Yeah and for the record, if you didn’t see a picture of Bob, Bob has perfectly white hair. BL: Perfectly white hair. KK: And lots of it! BL: Yep, I’m going to hang on to it! It was a good gene pool. KK: Now, Katelyn is there anything that you wanted to ask? BL: She’s been so talkative over there, hasn’t she? Giggle, giggle, giggle. KB: No, I don’t think so. Think we’ve got some good stories. BL: There are some that I can’t repeat, but yeah. KK: Okay, well thank you so much for your time and sharing with us, uh, this concludes the interview. �Robert Lord - Interviewed by Ken Kutzel and Katelyn Bosch June 4 2018 BL: Thanks, Ken. [00:28:43] 9 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-LordR-20180604 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lord, Robert Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-06-04 Title A name given to the resource Robert Lord (Audio interview and transcript), 2018 Description An account of the resource Bob Lord moved to a historic home in Saugatuck in 1978. In this interview he covers the history of his home, known as "The 1894 House." He details some of his favorite summer activities, and offers some hopes for the future of Saugatuck. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kutzel, Ken (Interviewer) Bosch, Katelyn (Interviewer) Van Orsdol, Mollie (Transcriber) Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Singapore (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Oral history Audio recordings Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Stories of Summer project, Kutsche Office of Local History. Grand Valley State University Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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RF: Raymond Edward Foster, R A Y M O N D, E D W A R D, F O S T E R EG: That’s great, alright, so we’ll, we’ll continue our conversation here, you brought in a few things here about your farm, you want to tell us a little bit about where it is and… RF: Well this, this was kind of a family farm, um, my mother, mothers’ parents and uh, her grandparents uh, um, bought eighty acres. They came from Chicago in the late 1800’s and uh, bought eighty acres uh, near the corner of 66th street and uh, 126th and uh, they [pause] they farmed it and uh, [pause] uh, a lot of different things. They had blueberries and raspberries and uh, they had 20 head of cattle and uh, chickens and uh, at different times, different things, uh. Through the years and uh, they raised four daughters, my mother was the oldest and uh, [pause] she spent, she was the last one to leave the farm. The other daughters grew up, we got married and then before World War Two, and then my mother got married after World War Two and uh, so she spent more time on the farm. But as I was growing, when I grew up and [pause] I, I stayed there with my grandparents. They were in good health and uh, help them do things [pause] and uh, but mainly just really enjoyed the place. And uh, it was uh, just a just a beautiful retreat, and uh, a lot of great place to explore and uh, [pause] uh, [long pause] KK: Is the house still standing? RF: The house is still standing, it’s had several owners since then, and uh, but uh, [pause] but it’s been, it’s changed some. Uh, considerably. The house, the outside structure’s pretty much the same but it has a garage added to it, but uh, and uh… KK: I noticed it says here that that’s the Hines homestead? RF: Yes... KK: Is that what it was called? RF: Well yes, my, [stutters] I, I, I didn’t mention that but my, my great grandfather's name was Emo Hines and he came from Chicago and he was not a farmer but he kind of adopted the, the [stutters] hob hobby, but he had just one son, Otto who was my, my uh grandfather and my great grandfather was a German immigrant and uh, [pause] he uh, [pause] along with his son uh, they kind of developed the �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 2 land. They planted fruit trees and grape vineyards and, and uh, and raised cattle, and tilled the soil with a team of horses and uh, um, [pause] it was a [pause] a [pause] a labor of love I think, uh, uh, they uh, it stayed in the family till the 70’s and uh, so ah, let’s see where can I go from there uh, but I, but I, I spent a lot of time there in the 60’s, the 50’s and 60’s and uh, [pause] and uh, [pause] well… KK: How ‘bout, give another...tell us, you, the other day when we spoke with you. You started to tell us a story about one time when you were on the farm and the motorcycles came in... RF: Oh! KK: Would you talk about that please? RF: No, actually that was at my parents’ house… KK: Oh! RF: ...on M89 east of Fennville. KK: Well let’s talk about that anyway! [00:04:39] RF: Okay! Sure! Well it was probably ‘65 ‘66, maybe ‘64 ‘65 ‘66, [pause] I think by ‘67-’68 it kind of fizzled out. But, on a Memorial Day weekend or Fourth of July weekend, uh, you could hear, hear from a long ways away this, this sound of motorcycles coming, and there was long strings of them, and various, [stutters] grou-groups, probably a dozen in a group or so, maybe more, and they came from Detroit, Flint, and uh, [pause] uh, mainly east, on the other, eastern side of the state, but uh, I guess I could describe them as a colorful group. They weren't, they weren't necessarily uh, like uh, social club they were, they more of, of an old [stutters] I I I don’t want to make a comparison to the Hell’s Angels but they were, they were kind of that style. Uh, their, their jackets on the back had, had little titles like uh ‘Disciples from Hell’ or ‘Hell’s Disciples’ or that sort of thing. That theme was very popular, and uh, but when I was able to go to Saugatuck, uh, on those weekends it was incredibly busy, they would actually, unless you could prove you lived there they wouldn’t let you in they would stop at the top of the hill, they wouldn’t let cars down. And, the motorcycles would be rode up the entire like, from Phil’s all the way down to the corner and uh, they um, [pause] they would pretty much take over the town. As, as strange as that might sound, and and the police were, were usually, it wasn’t like today, they were, it was a small police force and they might rent a few, we referred to ‘them as Rent-a-Cops because they were just hired for that special occasion. And uh, I’m, I’m not aware of any major, uh, conflicts that uh, that occurred. There may have been some but I wasn’t really aware of anything, like a, any kind of a small riot or anything like that. I wasn't aware of anything like that but, but as a teenager it was quite a novelty to see that. To be exposed to that, and uh, [pause] so, [pause] um, [pause] well, that was pretty much it, I mean uh, just, just to see it, holiday was over they were gone… KK: Did that happen every weekend? Or… RF: No, no, no. Just on, I only saw it on a holiday weekends, and uh, so, that was uh, kind of a, unique thing. �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 3 EG: What were the reactions of your parents, or grandparents? RF: Well you know I… EG: Or neighbors to that? RF: You know, as far as my, the uh, [pause] the [pause] my parents’ generation, I don’t think they uh, I don’t think really could comprehend what was going on. I don’t, [stutters] I, I was never aware that they, uh, it wasn’t something they were happy about, I’m sure, I I know that much but as far as uh, feeling threatened or anything like that or, uh, [pause] they just, they just looked at it as some kind of a temporary thing, a phase I think. I don’t think they thought of it as a, um, you know a… EG: Collapse of civilization… RF: [Laughs] Yeah! Sure, that, yeah. I’m sure they thought of something like that. Yeah…. KK: Although at that time, was the um, was the summer season, here in Saugatuck, I mean was it um, as long as it is now, er, you know? RF: Well, I think, I think I would say it is, um, people started coming up, [pause] um probably before memorial day and, and um, to their cottages and such and uh, they pretty much stayed until after Labor Day, shortly after Labor Day. Yeah, there was good numbers of people. It’s hard to make a comparison between then and now, because things just look at a lot different. They appear a lot different. KK: Why don’t you talk about that? RF: Well, I, I guess I could say that, at that time, it was a very affordable place to go, for, for the average middle class person, and [pause] even though it had a history [pause] from, that I had heard about, you know ‘Well Saugatuck is really one of, a place you want to go because [stutters] they, they, they have bars they stay open all night’ and um there’s that kind of atmosphere but, but as a young person, you, you kind of want to be exposed to a little bit of that. KK: Well sure! All: [Laugh] [00:09:54] RF: Just to, just to find out for yourself and uh, but, that’s, that’s probably the most striking thing, and the development, there’s much more development today. You could, you could see the water when you came in off of, of Blue Start and came into town and you could see the water, uh all the way. There were no condos or anything like that, and uh, uh, [pause] so, [pause] I hesitate using the word quaint, but if you, if you were there in the winter you might call it that, but the summer there was a lot of people so it wasn't really, it was more, it was a tourist town, it was strictly a tourist town. But uh, [pause] uh, the Coral Gables was a really popular place at that time, very popular place. People would be lined up waiting to get in, and uh, and [pause] uh, I do remember some scuffles out front just as a bystander watching some people. Probably some unruly people getting thrown out, and those things kind of stick �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 4 in your head. But, uh, [pause] uh [pause] it was an evolution I guess, you know it just evolved from, you know my parents’ generation, they probably would’ve saw something, even more, uh, more quaint I guess you’d say, more slow paced and um,[pause] uh, but things have, thing have evolved to what they are today and uh, it’s it is, but uh I suppose it’s relative in a way, but it is more, more expensive for the average person to just go anywhere and spend some time in a, a restaurant or a bar. EG: Beyond Coral Gables, were there other places that stood out to you? That you spent time, or… RF: Well… EG: Or stayed away from, or? RF: Well the Butler and Coral Gables were always the biggest two, biggest items, and uh, everything else was just really small. Like uh, there was a place called the Boathouse, and that was down at the end of the street, across Wick’s Park, in that area, and uh, and uh, all the other little places were just um, [pause] were lesser, and then, then I, one thing I remembered too in, in it may have been ‘68 or ‘67, you guys might know, the Blue Tempo came in… KK: Yes let’s talk about that RF: Well, you know, as, as a, as a person growing up at that time, I didn’t even, I didn’t even understand what uh, or fully understand what uh, [pause] um, what a gay, the whole concept of gay people was… EG: Sure… RF: So, uh, but I knew this was a unique place, and I knew it had, but, had I known more, in in hindsight, I might of, might of tried to go there because I know they had great music, and uh, I’m a great uh, admirer of that kind of, uh, music, and a great history for music and uh, but uh, [pause] uh because now, as a 70 year uh, and having lived in the area, or known people in the area for a long time, that whole uh, uh, [pause] uh, shall I say the [pause] the gay scene, is is a, it doesn't, it doesn't even leave an impression on me anymore. KK: It’s become part of the culture. RF: It’s part of the culture, and uh, so, but, but it was always know as a unique place. It was the location was unique and uh, everybody knew that this was a gay bar, and uh, and uh, so, I wish I could tell you I’d been there and experienced it but I, I can’t. A friend of mine was there and I only get bits and pieces from him, but uh, [pause] uh [pause] but uh. EG: What were some of the reactions or things that people, other people’s reactions or things that you’ve heard about? RF: About… EG: [Inaudible] RF: About, concerning that? �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 5 EG: Yeah! Ray: Ah, [pause] you know, people uh, were not really very activist type people at that time. Most people, you know, they went about their own business and if something new came along, well they talked about it, but as far as being a [pause] being a objectionable thing or a something that really disturbed people. People just kind of...after a while it just blew by. [00:15:14] KK: [Inaudible] RF: Yeah, and uh, so, the reaction, my impression of the reaction wasn’t, wasn’t anything really big. EG: Just another bar, another club that has good music and we’re probably not going there. That kind of… RF: That kind of reaction. EG: That kind of reaction? RF: That kind of a thing yeah, that’s fair to say. Yeah. KK: You know um, a question I have for you, being a Douglas resident myself, uh, what are your memories of the Douglas side? RF: Well, I occasionally, I would go there with my uh, grandparents occasionally. There was, there was a little grocery store down on the end of the street towards the river, uh, where uh, um [pause] well there was a little novelty store there near Naughtons... KK: Yeah. RF: Near Naughtons store there, that at one time there was a grocery store there… KK: Was that Vansicles? RF: Vansicles, yes! And they would go there occasionally, and uh, [pause] and we would also pick uh, they they raised uh, raspberries so we would pick raspberries and we would bring them into town and right where the park is, where the ballpark is there was a man, a vendor there, [pause] and uh, he would take all we had and uh, he would sell them to the tourists and uh, gosh, just trying to remember his name now, he had a son who was blind [pause] um, [long pause] gah! KK: Well it’s alright, it will come to you when you’re not thinking about it. RF: Right. But anyway it was a, so we did that, we would hang out there for a while but at that time, across the street, the uh, there was uh, a Catholic School there too. So we knew the, we knew about that, and at that time the original Catholic Church wasn’t St. Peter's it was just down the street. �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 6 KK: Right. RF: And uh, one little side light to that, I have a, uh, my dad [pause] had an uncle and uh, I [pause] and he was the first baby to be baptized there, and I should’ve brought the name, the baptized name was all the little organizations in town gave him a name and when he went back many years later he was embarrassed because they mentioned him, and brought him, and mentioned him and everything but his baptized name was uh, Peter Paul Benedict, uh, Jacob Ivan, [pause] Clark and uh, and they all gave him a name so, it was, it was an embarrassing thing for him as an adult. But uh, he did happen to be the first baby that was baptized there uh, he was a part of a large family that was also in the area. But [pause] but it was a, it was a, it was a incredibly quiet quaint little town. Just down the street there was a place called the Delicatessen and a man named Red Delky owned it and he had a baker working for him that was a refugee from Austria, a World War Two refugee, and an incredibly talented pastry chef and anybody my age can tell you, that lived in the area that they made the best bread and uh, and uh, uh [pause] sweet rolls and that sort of thing uh, that you could find anywhere. And uh, and uh, down a little bit further there was a little drug store so it was a, really a, had everything. KK: [Inaudible} RF: Just a little town! And uh, I uh, I would also go on Friday night, quite often on Friday night with my grandparents, near the corner of uh, Blue Star and uh, Maple Street, uh going to the north. There was a house on the right hand side, at one time it was a resort, owned by my grandfather's uncle, Fred Hines and [pause] they would pick up people, you would pick up people that came in on the boats and then bring them back to the resort and uh, his wife would uh, do the housekeeping and uh, he was just mainly just took them around town to the beach or wherever they wanted to go and uh, but, they had a little resort there. So but, in later years when I went there with my grandparents, the uh, the next generation down lived there, my, would be a cousin to my grandmother, grandparents, er grandfather and uh, so we would just go there, spend some time there with them, they would uh, talk about old times and that sort of thing, and uh, but uh, it was just [pause] a nice quiet little visit. But uh, I don't know, what else can I tell you? [00:20:46] KK: Do you remember the, uh, the rock festival at all? Were you involved in that, or? RF: I did go to the one at uh, near Goshorn Lake… KK: Okay, that’s Potawatomi Beach, right? RF: Potawatomi Beach, yes. Uh, yes, I did go to that in ‘68, I believe KK: I believe that’s what it was…. RF: I think it was in ‘68, and it was hot and dry and sandy roads and people would, uh, it was [inaudible] it was incredibly crowded and uh, you couldn’t get close to the band stand, it was just uh, again there was, there was that large influx of uh, motorcycle people and they kind of dominated an area there, but uh, so you could hear things from a distance unless you, unless you somehow got there real early and �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 7 worked your way in, but it was kind of a phenomenon I guess because the volume of people, yeah I think I, I think I read where cars were lined up all the way from, from that park all the way to the bridge at the river… KK: I have heard that…. RF: It’s hard to imagine… KK: Yeah EG: Right RF: So, and then they decided they’d never do that again, but uh, the history of those types of things are, is, is great. I mean when it goes back to uh, when they had a pavilion and then it’s the uh, got that racetrack… KK: Right… RF: But uh, I do remember, uh, probably the late 50’s when they had a Jazz Festival, the Saugatuck Jazz Festival, uh, at the racetrack there and uh, Duke Ellington and a few other celebrities were there and my grandparents farm was kind of a, like a mile south of there, on 126th and uh, just about half a mile from the corner of Blue Star and 126th, and with the windows open at night, I remember them introducing Duke Ellington and them mentioning his name, that always stuck in my, stuck with me forever after that. I thought, wow what would’ve been so great to be there… KK: And that sound would carry over because it was all farms… RF: Yes. KK: Yeah. RF: Pretty, quite open at that time. EG: So you could hear? You could hear music and…. RF: I could, yes, yeah, not really well but some, yeah. EG: Yeah. RF: And prior to that it was a stock car track, a little dirt stock car track and there was uh, um, uh, auto racing there. It was quite, for many years, it went on but uh, I never experienced that, I wish I had but uh, [pause] um [pause] KK: Any contact, uh at all, or anything you can share about contact with Oxbow or the people from there? �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 8 RF: No, I never really knew about Oxbow until later I, I consider myself an art lover but I, I never really knew about it. I wish that I had known more about it at a younger age but it’s a, it’s a great great thing to have in the area. KK: Yeah, it was more a private club… RF: Way back! KK: And it's interesting that you bring that up because you're not the first person who said ‘We really didn't pay attention to it’. RF: No, I never really knew much about it, till later years, and uh, but uh... EG: Do you remember much of seeing many artists around? Seeing people painting in town, in Douglas or Saugatuck, or? RF: No, I always knew it was an art, artsy community but I didn't spend much time, you know, going from shop to shop, I uh, really at that point in my life, I wasn't really that, I was more, uh, driving your car, go to the beach, and uh that sort of thing, uh, and getting together with people, but uh, the art, [pause] I know it existed but I never, I was never exposed to it. [00:25:16] KK: Then, what was the beach like then? RF: Oh, it was great! Uh, there was, there was of course the Oval Beach, but then, the Douglas, Douglas had a beach, and then there was several beach on down, uh, there were then. I never remembered big crowds there like today. I have seen some photographs of big crowds but uh, but uh, it was a they were, they were fairly well kept up and uh, and uh, it was quite a thing to go the Oval Beach was uh, was really quite a special thing. KK: Were you guys aware at all of the nude beach? Or did that come later? RF: You know, I wasn't aware of that, I heard about it, no I heard about it. I did hear about it as a uh, probably in the late 60’s I heard about it. KK: Okay. RF: But uh, that’s really the end of it there, I, I uh, wasn’t curious about that. KK: Yeah, yeah. Had, had you ever been out on that Denison property with all those dunes? RF: Yes! I have! KK: Yeah that’s kind of, well talk about that a little bit, because that I think has to be seen to be believed. �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 9 RF: Well, its, its south of the mouth of the river. I, I did walk that and to the, to the uh, old light house, in that area, and that's great. That was great country to explore and to follow it all the way up to the, to bald head and then back down, it was a great, great experience and very natural area and uh, you could see the old pilings in, in the pine and that little, where the channel was… KK: Yeah, the lagoon, yeah. RF: ...and the lagoon yeah and uh, and then uh, well of course there was the pier you could walk out on that, but [pause] uh, [pause] it was a, you I considered it a great area, beautiful area but I never got to the north side there north side of the channel where the Denison’s property was I never really saw that. Uh… KK: Well it was hard to get out there, always had to take that dug road… RF: Yeah, Dugout road, yeah. I, my mother, in later years uh worked for uh Ken Denison and planted, I think, she and another lady cleaned the boats when it was, when it, when they were in business out there at the end and…. KK: You're talking Broward Marine… RF: Broward Marine, yes, and, and they uh, uh, my mother planted a whole row of daffodils along the bank there and was around long enough to see how nice they looked and uh, and uh, she thought the Denison’s were great people, generous people and uh, [pause] uh, [pause] uh, [pause] only knew, she knew the dad some but knew Ken more uh, but uh, never, I, I don’t know if the big house was built at that time but there was a house there along with the uh, the [pause] marina and the business, but uh, [pause] um, [pause]. The uh, [pause] well going back to the farm there uh, back then all the roads were dirt roads pretty much uh, they hadn’t paved a lot of the roads there and uh, so you uh, that was a [pause] a back in time compared to how it is today. KK: Yeah, where did you go to school? RF: I did go to school in Fennville that's where my family actually lived. KK: So was it the old high school there, or? RF: I did go in the old, to the old high school for a couple years, before it was uh, not used anymore but uh, uh… KK: And what about for a grade school was in Fennville also? RF: Yep, that was also in Fennville, yeah, uh… KK: I'm going to ask you a funny question… RF: ...no, no it’s fine. KK: Did, did you have Mrs. Northrup for any… �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 RF: Yes! Yes I did! [Laughs] KK: [Laughs] Oh, that’s, so, she’s a real good close of mine, and um… RF: Oh my gosh, how old is she? KK: She’s about 93, er um, yep. She has dinner at my house every Monday, in fact she’ll be over tonight… [00:30:03] RF: Really? KK: I’ll have to mention you. RF: She was my third grade teacher. KK: But its, its, she, I was just telling, ah, somebody today uh, we go out with her quite often and no matter where we go, she’s had every person… RF: Oh, no doubt. KK: She taught at, yeah, she taught in Fennville. RF: Yes. KK: Oh that’s kind of wonderful. RF: She was a sweet lady, I, I can tell you that. KK: And it was her family that owned, uh Sunny Shore. RF: Oh, really? KK: On [inaudible] the river road. RF: See I thought, I thought they lived more out on the...south. KK: They lived in Allegan, but it was her husband’s family that went there as kids. RF: Okay, and she did have a son, that's true. Is that true? Yes? KK: Ah, yep, yeah uh [inaudible] Jeff! RF: Okay. 10 �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 11 KK: Her son Jeff, he’s still around. RF: Alright, alright. KK: Yeah. RF: Yeah. KK: It’s a small world! RF: Oh! It’s a lot smaller than you realize if you, if we really, I mean it, when I look at this, or even a newer one I, I know so many of the people on these placards or I’m familiar with them. KK: Well, it’s a small area, really. RF: Yeah, well, for example uh, uh, this farm here this Ed Work farm… KK: Mhm RF: Mrs. Work, Mary Work, she was a teacher in the Saugatuck Douglas area for many years but then she taught in Fennville. She, she uh, her family, her dads family were, were involved in the uh, basket factory. KK: Okay. RF: The name, you probably have seen it. KK: Yep! RF: In concern, in relation to the basket factory, and uh, so and she she donated a ton of really great photos of uh, the history of the area, I’m sure they’re in the archives. KK: I’m sure they’re in the, I’m sure they’re in the collection. EG: [Inaudible] RF: Yeah they’re great. KK: Well that's, that great, um, let’s see. Uh, well you brought a couple of other photos here so, why don't we take a look, why don't you tell us, I see uh… RF: Well, I have, I have to show you this photo here. This photo, and Mrs. Northrup would remember this… KK: I should’ve brought her! �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 12 RF: Well, anyway, this house is no longer there but if you're on the river road there, you go past where sunny side... KK: Sunny Shore, yeah. RF: and you keep going East to, there’s a curve, where 62nd… KK: Yep! RF: ...Where... KK: I know exactly where it is. RF: This house used to be right on that, on the right hand side of that property. That property went way back to a family named Purdy… KK: Okay… RF: Uh, Erastus Purdy he was a civil war veteran and he, he owned that property and they had a landing down below, on the river uh, and a man named uh, one of his sons [inaudible] Purdy they had a boat named after him, and uh he he was kind of a, well I don't know if it was just a tourist, tourist boat or if it was a working boat, but anyway they had a landing there and uh, were I think way back there was actually a trading post there, on that location right down below…. KK: Could be, yeah, because that's, you know, Mac’s Landing is down from there… RF: Yes! Yeah, right it has, there's an association between that and Mac’s Landing… KK: Okay… RF: But uh… KK: Yeah, that's very interesting. RF: Yeah. KK: That already looks like it had fallen on hard time there… RF: Oh yes! Yes. KK: Is that sand or is that snow in front? Is that a little bit of snow? RF: It is snow. EG: It looks like snow, yeah. KK: Yeah it looks like it because I don't see uh, leaves on the tree there. �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 13 RF: But I’m sure it was a beautiful house at one time. KK: Yeah! EG: Yeah, lots of great shingle work in the gables and on the octagonal bay. Queen Anne revival… RF: The uh, one of the daughters her, think it was her granddaughter of the original owner, her name was Purdy and she had a friend of uh, she had somebody drive her to Saugatuck or wherever she wanted to go, and the car was a Pierce-Arrow. KK: Oh! RF: Was a beautiful old Pierce-Arrow and uh my mother always remembered that because it, nobody had a Pierce-Arrow. KK: You know what, gosh, Joan Northrup told me a story about that car. RF: I’ll bet. KK: Yeah, and I, bet you she, she knew who the people were. RF: Oh she would know that, yes! I know who the, uh, driver was the driver man’s name was uh, Cleo Art and he lived just down, down 62nd, er 66th street there he had a farm down there and uh, he was the driver and whenever she wanted to go somewhere, he would take her. But uh… [00:35:04] KK: That's great! RF: Yeah. KK: Tell us about your family, do you have children, er? RF: I have two sons, yes! KK: Okay. RF: and uh, they don't live in the area, one’s in Rhode Island and ones in Grand Rapids, but uh, and they they visit, or we visit them but uh, uh, but my family my mother uh, married a man from Fennville and they started a little uh, my my dad and my uncle in the, actually before World War Two in the late 30’s they started a little Mom and Pop grocery store meat market right on the main street where the Salt of the Earth is… KK: Oh! Okay! �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 14 RF: Yeah that was a, and then there’s a stairway going upstairs and then just to the, to the left of that was a little clothing store which was operated by by um my dad and my uncles father, and he had that since the uh early 20’s and uh then it was inherited by the next son and he ran it until the uh, late 60’s and then my uh my dad and my uncle uh, when they were drafted in World War Two they, let the people, the uh, there was a, there was a two brothers that uh, they purchased it, purchased it from they took it back over again and ran it until they got back from the service and they took it back again. KK: Oh that's interesting. RF: Yeah, and uh but they they had a little grocery store there and so so myself and my brothers we worked for them, worked in the store there and that sort of thing and uh… KK: In Fennville, you know obviously where the downtown is and then you know, as you come west, there’s, now it’s a parking lot but there’s a big empty area there, that’s you know, did that burn down? What was there? RF: No. Uh, well, at one time there was a bank on the uh, on the corner just uh, well it would be the south, uh, south, uh, southeast corner. KK: Yeah. RF: …and then, and then no there was a hardware store quite a large hardware store, farm implements on that corner and then next to that was a lumberyard… KK: Oh! RF: Yeah, going west and then next to that was the Fennville Herald newspaper house and it was real small little newspaper office with, and they had to set the type by hand, it was quite a thing, and uh, uh [pause] and then there was the business on the corner, Fennville tire but uh, yeah that was all businesses in there and there were houses behind there was a row of houses. KK: So what happened? Did it burn? RF: No, no... KK: They just tore it down? RF: There were no fires, uh yeah, it just [pause] it they, they were very old and I’m not sure how, where there was a [pause] in bad repair or the city bought it, I really don't know. I know the City now owns that, a large chunk of that land and uh, the uh Salt of the Earth uses part of it for a parking lot or other businesses but uh, yeah, there was a… KK: I’m glad to know that, I always wondered… RF: ...In the 60’s, in the 60’s it was a uh, it had had, a real upturn in economy, the canning factory was going great guns, three shifts, and uh, and uh, employment was high and uh a lot of migrant workers �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 15 were there in the summer and on weekends streets were full of people and uh, and then it kind of went down in the 70’s and 80’s and then that's just starting to come back again, yeah. KK: That’s very, very interesting. You have over here, that you said that you have a boat picture here? RF: Yeah this, this photo here [pause] this little sail boat was owned by a man named uh, Leo Tucker, and he was a fruit farmer uh, down by, on Hutchins lake and, and the name of the boat was the Kit Kat but it, it has a nice shot of the pavilion… KK: ...Oh, it looks wonderful! RF: ...and uh, and the uh, Coral Gables, and uh and uh this photo is my grandmother, uh, Otto Hines’ wife, Edith and it’s on top of Mount Bald Head and I’m going to say it’s not long after the pavilion was built, she was born in the 1870’s, late 1870’s so, she was a young woman but uh, you can see one of the large posts there, and uh, but you can see the pavilion and, and the two uh, [pause], parks…. [00:40:11] KK: ...and I love that you can see the old bridge… RF: Yes! The old bridge, yes... KK: The old bridge is still there… RF: Yeah, and so, and I did get this blown up and I’ve got a beautiful framed picture at home, those are my grandparents there, and uh, they were farmers their whole lives, and uh, when this, when their farm was built it was the first farm on that street 126th from 66th to Blue Star and that road was known as Hines Road. KK: Oh, really? RF: Yeah. KK: Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, so you're lucky to have such nice photos… RF: ...Yeah I am very lucky, these are, this is uh, uh a later picture with some vineyards in the front and they moved the windmill to the back of the house, and er the well and uh, but uh, it was still horse and buggy days, you can see buggy tracks here and uh, uh yeah that's pretty much… KK: ...Really really wonderful, thank you for bringing those. RF: Well… KK: ...Do you have any more questions, that you have Eric, that were on the list that we were supposed to ask? �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 16 EG: No, we moved through a good list of things. Lots of really great things some things we haven't heard before… RF: ...Well thanks… EG: ...or that compliment things… KK: Yeah no, it's fun and I’m, I’m going to get you together with Joan Northrup… RF: Okay! I’d like that. KK: Yeah. EG: Anything else you’d like to say? RF: Well, here's one thing I’d like to add. You know the pavilion was, was such a highlight of the, uh, my parents and my, my grandfather Otto, he knew one of the uh, one of the uh, managers or something so he could always get in, and he had four daughters so, I’m assuming they all got in, that would be six people but at that time in history, and I don't know if you folks have ever heard this before, but and I, I don’t bring it up to sound like I’m uh, anti-Semite or anything like that but, the seats were, were marked ‘Gentiles’ for Gentiles and for Jews and one time, I don't know if it was a little crowded or what but my grandfather sat in a place where it said ‘For Jews’ and my mother will never forget this, she says a woman came by and just sat right on his lap until he got up. KK: No, there are, there are a lot of stories, it was very anti-Semitic, uh in Saugatuck and uh… RF: ...Well, yeah, I don’t, I’m not aware of the uh, I know it was, there was a separation there… KK: Yeah… RF: But… KK: They were not allowed, the Jews were not allowed to stay in a lot of the hotels… RF: Oh, really? KK: Yeah RF: Okay KK: Yeah, there’s some, there's some interesting, uh records of that and um, but uh that’s one story I have not heard. RF: Yeah KK: I guess, I guess a lot would’ve come over on those boats, you know what I mean? �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 17 RF: From Chicago. KK: From Chicago, yes, so you’d have to accommodate it. RF: There were a few that uh, a few that were, that lived here. There were a few Jews that stayed here, that were, almost like natives and uh, of course South Haven had a… KK: Yes… RF: ...had a larger population of that and uh, [pause] uh, the, the old Glen Shores Golf Club, I know this because my Dad was best man with one of the sons of the owner who, who started the business just before the depression and uh, he had big plans for it and everything and some of the print outs of uh, advertising and everything he advertised it as a Christian place and he, he had a very subtle way of saying, the, the Jews weren't necessarily welcome. KK: It’s hard to imagine… RF: ...It’s a novelty, it’s uh, it’s uh, it was a different world back then, and it was long before World War Two. EG: Do you remember much, and thinking along those same lines, do you remember much uh, African American, People of Color in Saugatuck Douglas area? RF: No, I don't. In, in school when I was growing up uh, we had two or three families and that was it and uh, [pause] uh, [pause] um, [pause] I really don’t, I really don’t no. EG: Not much, not much reaction… [00:45:01] RF: ...Oh no, no, uh, no not at all, uh, there was uh, there was a Jamaican man who worked for one of the farmers there and I knew him a little bit. He used to come into town every, every uh every Saturday to buy his groceries and he, his skin was almost purple you know he, he was very dark, and but he was Jamaican and he uh, a good natured person and uh, hard working person and uh, he about the only uh, man of color that we would see. The uh, Spanish, er uh, I shouldn't say Spanish I should say the Mexican population, we always called them Spanish [pause] for some reason but Mexican is what they were, but Mexican didn't sound right so people said Spanish for some reason... KK: ...Well probably because that’s what they spoke… RF: ...I suppose that’s it, and so, they started uh, their numbers have rapidly increased uh, in uh, in recent years, and there were always Spanish people in school with us. Saugatuck was a little different, that was a little more unique, it was a little more [pause] all [pause] Anglo, all uh, all white. Even to this day it’s more that way, but uh… KK: ...Well that’s really interesting. �Raymond Foster - Interviewed by Eric Gollannek and Ken Kutzel July 23 2018 18 EG: One other question that I’ve asked people as we’ve done these recordings. So we’re saving these, with the idea that these will be around 50 plus years from now, so uh, thinking ahead, imagining someone listening to this in uh, 2068 uh, are there, is there anything you’d like them to know about your life or the community here, as it is today? RF: I can just say that, that I can’t complain about anything, I learned a good work ethic, working for my grandparents and uh, and my parents taught me a good work ethic and uh, I think that was a big benefit for me growing into adulthood but on the other side, I got to see, I got to see a great community kind of evolve into a more modern day, uh, [pause] uh, [pause] place and, and those are great memories, but I also have the memories that my parents and grandparents uh, told me about how it was back then in the horse and buggy days and uh, but uh, [pause] I guess I’d just like to say that it was a great place to grow up, uh, a great place to experience. The summers were uh, the winters were kind of brutal but the summers were, summers were great, and uh, Lake Michigan, to have Lake Michigan and uh, the sand dunes and uh, [pause] the river and everything it was a great experience and uh, no regrets. KK: Good! RF: I guess that I would regret that I didn't ask more questions uh, to my grandparents, uh, to try to absorb a little more information but uh, uh, but uh, other than that I have no regrets. It was great, and I love being able to talk to someone that experienced the same things I did, and uh, relate to the same things, those are always fun, but uh, this historical society is doing everything it can to preserve these things and, I, I salute them for that, that's a great thing. KK: Well thank you very much! RF: Thank you. EG: You're more than welcome. Alright, well with that, that will conclude this interview. Thanks again. RF: Thank you. [00:49:24] � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/15bed5bb3811867abfb16750b09548d9.mp3 d2da8c60105b541e853cff0537e1ea64 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/95d666a7c26a01dcc7fa10ec2104d233.pdf b4ecab4a52949cab17bc07807b7b9545 PDF Text Text Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 1 Nathan Neitering: Uh, this is Nathan Neitering, and I’m here today with Nancy Crean at the old schoolhouse in Douglas, Michigan on June 6th 2018. This oral history is being collected as part of the Stories of Summer Project, which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Program. Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today, I’m interested to learn more about your family history and your experiences of summer in the Saugatuck Douglas area. First, can you please tell me your full name and spell it? Nancy Crean: It’s Nancy Crean, C R E A N. NN: Okay, and your maiden name? NC: Pandel. P A N D E L. NN: Thank you very much, um, so first, tell me about where you grew up? NC: I grew up in Chicago. On the south side, very close to um, South Shore Country Club, Museum of Science and Industry, so I spent part of my summer at the beach in Chicago, and the other part of my summer here in Saugatuck at the Oval Beach. NN: Awesome, always on the beach. NC: Always on the beach. NN: [Laughs] Um, and did you have any siblings growing up? NC: I have one brother, and his name is Bob Pandel and he did basically the same thing as me other than he played sports. NN: Okay, alright. Um, do you remember the first time you came to Saugatuck? NC: Probably not because I was probably about 3 months old. NN: Okay. NC: [Laughs] NN: Then…. NC: …First memory? NN: Yeah, first memory. NC: First memories would probably be about 6 years old. NN: Okay. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 2 NC: So I came up with my family and we would come up every weekend starting in April all the way through November and we would spend two full weeks here during the summer when my, my dad had vacation, and we had a friend across the street, Mark Francis and the three of us would just play ball, we’d ride bikes, we’d play in the golf course when we weren’t supposed to. We would steal the golf balls off the fourth hole and watch the people look for them. Um, we, as we got older we met other people in town and we would do things with them, mainly playing like baseball or whatever. And later on going into town and hanging out in the middle of the street when they would close down the town, with the college kids. NN: Um, so you said you have a brother do you have any children? NC: I have two children, two girls, Jennifer and Kelly and they both came here from the time they were born also. We spent more time here because I was a teacher, so I was able to come you know for weeks at a time during the summer, so they were able to enjoy a lot more things than we were. And I have grandchildren who also do the same thing and they were very lucky because they could spend just as much time, but they got to enjoy you know the arts and the swimming and the sailing and everything else, you know because we did more things then. NN: Right, wonderful. Okay, so take me back, were step back for a second. NC: Okay. NN: Tell me how and when did you family first come to the Saugatuck area? NC: Um, my father had hay fever and so they used to go up to Petoskey for some reason it was better up there and they would stop here in Saugatuck on the way because they had some relatives here and eventually my grandfather and grandmother decided to buy a home here in 1930 and they settled here and they did have friends and relatives that lived here [pause] for the summers. So I think that’s what brought them here. NN: Wonderful, and what were your grandparents names? NC: It was Frieda and Rudolph Pandel. NN: Okay, and your parents’ names? NC: My parents’ names were Ernest and Ada Pandel. NN: Very good, thank you. Um, and so it sounds like, it kind of became a family tradition to come to Saugatuck. NC: Very much so. NN: Yes. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 3 NC: Very much so, everybody loves it here and we have absolutely no intentions of selling the house or anything. The kids don’t want to divide it up, they want to keep coming here as we are now. NN: Wonderful, and what is the address of the house? NC: The address is 565 Campbell Road. NN: Okay, and can you describe it a little bit, as it currently is? NC: Yes, it is a small two bedroom, um it has a living room, a kitchen, one bathroom, and a screened in porch and a basement. NN: Okay, and what sort of condition is it in? NC: Um, it’s in very good condition, we maintained it over the years, we still have the original windows the original plumbing or, um, like sinks and bathtub, um, it’s the original wood floors, original wood, um, woodwork and it’s still the same color it was, when they bought it. NN: SO it truly feels like stepping back in time. NC: It is, I have, I have a picture from my when my grandfather bought it was, its dark brown like stain with white. Exact same. Hasn’t changed. NN: That’s wonderful, that’s really cool. Um, tell me a little bit more about some of your other experiences as a child coming to Saugatuck. [00:05:06] NC: Okay! Um we spent when we were here we spent almost every day at the beach. NN: Okay. NC: Or, or going through the woods back behind um, on Campbell road if you go north, it’s the woods between Campbell and Perryman and we would explore through there and we’d swing on the vines and whatever, um, we did not have a boat so we did not do any boating when I was a child, um, we swam all the time we went to town, rode bikes, all of those things. My parents didn’t have a lot of money so they didn’t enroll us in sailing or anything like that so it as basically, being kids. You know, and having the freedom to come and go as you pleased, you know and there were no curfews you know, your parents didn’t worry about you, you could, you know, be out, you know doing things that, well you should be doing. NN: That kids do right? NC: Exactly. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 4 NN: Yes. NC: Climbing trees, you know things we wouldn’t be doing in Chicago, because we did have access to that. NN: There wasn’t a space, right? Were you mostly spending this time with your family or did you have friends here as well? NC: We had, just the boy across the street and I had one girl that moved in. NN: Okay. NC: And then we hung around some the guys in town. So I didn’t meet a lot of girls until I was older. So it was mostly boys. NN: Mostly boys. NC: Which worked out well. NN: That’s okay. [Both laugh] NN: Um, so even when you were fairly young would your family ever sort of pack and head into Saugatuck, the village center or did you stay out close to the lake? NC: No, well during the day we were at the beach but in the evenings we would go into town and walk around and you know, visit with people that were selling everything, and we knew Mr. Francis who owned a grocery store. NN: Okay. NC: They’re the ones who lived across the street from us, so we would go into his store to do grocery shopping. NN: Okay, alright. NC: That little teeny store. NN: Do you recall any of the other restaurants or businesses that you would, frequent? NC: You know what, um, the only restaurant that we used to go was, it was a hamburger place, I’m trying to, I can’t think of the name. It was behind where the, its M and M’s now…. NN: Oh, right. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 5 NC: …but it used to be, I can’t remember what the name of it was. NN: Uh, tasty treat or something? At one point? NC: Yeah, that was, that was tasty freeze but right behind it where the breakfast place is now. NN: Mhm. NC: There was a restaurant that had hamburgers and I can’t remember the name of it. NN: That was on Blue Star, right? NC: It was on Blue Star but it was behind the tasty freeze. So I think, its, I, I don’t know what the name of it is now. I don’t think its WayPoint. NN: No, um, okay. When you, do you recall, um, uh, being at the house and you know, what kind of food would you guys eat? . NC: Um, my mother, my mother would make dinner before we went to the beach. She would prepare everything so when we came home from the beach, and we took our baths and got organized she would serve dinner within 20 minutes of the time we got home. NN: Wow, okay. NC: Yes, so she made homemade dinners every single day. I know she, she was quite the woman. [Whispers] I don’t do that. NN: But uh, apparently cooking was something she was passionate about? NC: She, well, well, we had to eat. NN: Well yes, and people get hungry. NC: And she did not mind cooking you know so, it was very hot because it’s a small cottage but, it worked. NN: Okay, um, [pause] so as you grew older into your teenage years, do you have specific memories of coming up…. NC: …I do…. NN: …that’s a little bit different than a young childhood’s experience. NC: I do, I brought up friends when I was a teenager so then we had, were able to go to the beach by ourselves and there was lots and lots of college kids and teenagers and they, you’d sit together so you �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 6 didn’t have to sit with your parents which was really nice, and I went to the, the um, festival, the rock festival that they had here. NN: Okay. NC: I attended that. That was really interesting. NN: Do you remember which year that was? NC: It was in like ’69? Maybe? NN: Okay, there were a couple of them in the late 60’s. NC: Yeah I believe it was in ’69. NN: Okay. NC: Alice Cooper was there. NN: Okay. NC: So, I believed it was around ’68 or ’69, right around the time Woodstock happened. NN: Yep. NC: So, it was like a mini one, but my parents allowed us to go and…. NN: …So they knew that’s where you were going? NC: They knew we, they dropped us off!. NN: Alright!. NC: They dropped us off and then we hitched a ride. We actually hitchhiked back to the house and my parents never even asked a question. That’s what I said they, you know, it was a different world back then. You know, and when I was probably in my early teens, um, that’s when all the college kids would be there and they’d gather around where Marro’s is and Coral Gables and they’d have to close down the town because there was so many of them, and they’d just kind of hang out, and that’s what we did. There was also a dance, it wasn’t the Pavilion it’s where um, Mermaid is now, that used to be a big warehouse at one time, and they had dances, teen dances there. That you could go to, and we did that in the evenings on like Saturday nights, which was a lot of fun, so…. [00:10:10] NN: About what year would that have been? �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 7 NC: That probably was somewhere between ’67 and ’69. NN: Okay. NC: …because that would’ve been, let’s see, let me think. Yes, it would’ve been the summer of ’67 or ’68, because I remember the friends I brought up with me. NN: They were all friends from back in Chicago? NC: They were, yes, and they loved it here. They still come up with me by the way. NN: Good! That’s excellent! Uh, so what else do you remember about the concert? The rock concert? NC: The concert!. NN: Yes!. NC: It was very interesting, there were a lot of drugs, lot of smoking, um, people were just enjoying themselves, lots of dancing, music was great! You know, it was a beautiful day, didn’t rain so it was very very nice…. NN: That makes a big difference when you were in a field, right? NC: Yes, yes. It was, it was, I had never been to something like that, I went to an all-girl catholic school back home, and so we were very conservative and it was like, very interesting to me, it opened my eyes to a lot of different things because they were doing many things that I had never seen before. So, kind of introduced me to what college would be like. NN: Yes [Both laugh] Do you recall any of the other performers that? NC: I don’t. Alice Cooper sticks out in my mind because he became famous, so. NN: Right. He was there. NC: Right. In fact, my cousin who lived in Fennville, he was one of his road managers. Alice Cooper. Yes. Which is very cool. NN: Oh! That’s fascinating. NC: Yes! Very cool. NN: I bet I would have some good questions for him too. NC: He passed away [laughs] He just passed away two years ago, I know, you missed it!. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 8 NN: Um, yeah, we’ve heard, we’ve heard several people, you know have memories of that concert depending on their, perhaps, level of sobriety. NC: Right, I was going to say depending on their age. Because I was probably about 14, 15 years old so I was a lot younger. NN: You were younger then. NC: Yes, yes. NN: Okay interesting, and even in a conservative Catholic household…. NC: Yes!. NN: …it was no questions asked over the concert? NC: Nope, nope. I don’t think they had a clue, what they were dropping us off at. To be perfectly honest, and when we came home we really didn’t tell them anything about it, and they passed away a few years ago and they still didn’t know. [Laughs] Life is good. NN: Yes, that’s great. NC: So but, no, it was great, it was very very interesting being there, it was, it was something different you know and it was nice that you could come to a small town like this and have something like that…. NN: Right…. NC: …and Saugatuck has always been a place where you can come have things that were different, then many other places and I think that’s one of the draws here. NN: Yep. NC: I really do. NN: I agree, I think a lot of other people would agree with you as well. Um, did you ever during the summers as a teen or young adult did you ever, sounds like you always came here for vacation, did you ever, ever have a summer job here? NC: I didn’t, no, I had summer jobs back home. NN: Okay, that’s fine. Um, do you recall then, as, as you were getting older were there other restaurants or businesses or places you used to hang out? NC: Uh, no. No, we basically stayed close to home. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 9 NN: Stayed close, and on the beach right? NC: Right, on the beach or in town just enjoying, you know, the crowds basically. NN: Did you ever have a reason to come to Douglas? NC: Yes, there as a really good bakery here. [Laughs] NN: Oh! Okay!. NC: There was a really good bakery, it was next to where the catholic school used to be. NN: Okay, down Center Street, yep!. NC: Yes, yes they made really good butter crust bread. So, and we would, there would be baseball games that you could watch too, in the park…. NN: [speaking over NC] At the Pet…what is now Beery Field. NC: Exactly. NN: Okay, okay. NC: So but other than that I don’t think we did, we’d walk a lot my brother and I rode bikes everywhere, so we, we rode all the way through, down the hills and around Saugatuck and Douglas so. NN: Do you recall, especially if you were on a bike, um, ever encountering motorcycle groups? NC: Oh gosh, yes! . NN: Okay! . NC: Oh yeah, that’s, well the town went through many different changes, it was the motorcycles came in and then, um, when the gay population first starting came, coming in it was, oh, trying to think of the name of the place right as you’re going into Saugatuck, it’s called the blue something-or-other. NN: Blue Tempo. NC: Yes! Yes. There, there was a lot of different changes going on, things, again, that you never saw before. You know, it was very very interesting, and um, so the town went through different changes and because when I was a child, it was very family oriented and then it, it went to the college kids and then it went to I believe the motorcycle gangs were first, and then I believe the gay population started to come in and you know, bring their culture because back then it was very different because they were um, trying to, um, how could I say this, they were a little more flamboyant. You know where as now, everybody’s the same, which is the way it should’ve been a long time ago, but it was you know, different �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 10 culture. So you got that, and then it went back to the family, which is really interesting, it’s a full circle, because now, you know if you go to the beach, there was, as you sure you, you might, I don’t know if you remember this, where there was the gay part of the beach where you had to pay and there was nudity and everything else down there, and now, I mean it’s all families, you know and everybody just intermingles and gets along and its, it’s awesome, you know? And that’s the thing I think is so cool about Saugatuck because it’s such a great area for everything, and everyone!. [00:15:40] NN: Yes. NC: So. But yes, there’s been many different changes. Motorcycle gangs were interesting. You’d see like, you know, a hundred of them parked in front of the Sand Bar, you know, because that was what their favorite bar, you know and it was loud you know and it didn’t scare people away but I don’t think families came as much. NN: Well, and I guess if the motorcycle groups, gangs, had, had their space everybody else had space around them. NC: Exactly. NN: Okay, alright. NC: Exactly, exactly. You know it didn’t stop our family from coming into town, to walk around and everything we, we continued doing everything the same our entire life. So…. NN: Do you ever recall when the motorcycle gangs would roll in or roll out of town? NC: Oh, the sound? NN: Yes. NC: Oh my gosh, yes. It was, it was noisy it was kind of like the cigarette boats now [laughs] when you hear them going, but it was much closer. Yes, because they had like the big hogs, I mean they had they huge motorcycles you know, and they were, they were large men you know, they had, looked scary and in sure they weren’t scary, they were just normal people that just wanted to do their thing, but, you know it’s just different then what we had before. NN: Right, and very noticeable. NC: Exactly. Exactly, because I’m 65, no, I’m 66 [laughs] . NN: You look great. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 11 NC: Well thank you, so, so I’ve experienced a lot of different changes. I think more, more changes during my lifetime than any other time, in Saugatuck, you know, because, I think when my grandparents bought it, I think it was very much a resort town, like, um, my mother-in-law when she was 17, took a bus here and stayed at one of the hotels because she had heard that it was a fun place to go. NN: How old do you think she was when she did that? NC: She was 17. NN: Okay, okay. NC: She is now, she lives with us, she’s 92. NN: Wow. [Both laugh] NN: Alright, so, this is all fascinating. Um, you know as you kind of already pointed out, the, the gay culture…. NC: Yes…. NN: …kind of, kind of grew or became more um, less underground…. NC: ..Right!. NN: …perhaps? So, when do you, do you recall when you first kind of became aware of that? NC: Um, I was probably, I believe I was married so it had to be in the ‘70s maybe late ‘70s because I think my children were already born and I, I, remember one incident, it was the Fourth of July and there was um, probably 4 or 5 gay men out in front of the, where the washroom is in Saugatuck and one of them was dressed in a wedding gown and it just and it was just really cute, and they were, they were adorable you know but it was just so bizarre and my kids were like, ‘what’s going on?’ You know? You know, and we were always very open, we explained to them everything, they were, they were very accepting about everything because you know we had friends who were gay and everything so it was no big deal. But, it was so flamboyant, I mean it was just like something that was like in your face, you know but it, it changed. I mean it, it, which is wonderful you know because now I think our gay population is, what about 40%? You know, which is wonderful and, like I said many of my friends are gay, I had gay friends when I was young too though, so. NN: So um, when you just, when you say that it was flamboyant, was it mostly in their style of dress? Such as wedding gowns? �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 12 NC: It was in their style of dress, it was in the way they acted, um, they were very physically showing that they were gay, you know they had no qualms about it which, which they should’ve been able to because heterosexual people are, but it wasn’t accepted back then. NN: Right. NC: That, that was the difference, so they were making um, a statement you know which I think was probably a really good thing because people got, like anything else, anything that’s different, once you get used to seeing it, it’s no longer different. It’s every day, you know? And like you said when they came out of the closet, which should’ve happened a long time ago, I think people just became very accepting of everything, so, which is really nice. But I think that was their way, I think it’s, the way with anything that’s different, you have you to kind of put it in people’s faces and put it out there so they see it, and they recognize it, and then from there you kind of just tame it down to normalcy. NN: Yeah, you mentioned the Blue Tempo as a, as a destination. [00:20:02] NC: Yes. NN: What else do you recall about the Blue Tempo? Did you ever go there? NC: I did not. NN: Did you know people who went there? NC: I did know people who went there, but I did not, so and I remember also um, what’s the name of the resort? The hotel, right on Blue Star? NN: Uh, The Dunes? NC: The Dunes, yes, I knew many people, my daughter [Laughs] my daughter is 40, she’s 41 now but when she was younger she hung around with some people that were gay and she went there, and it was a really interesting story when she came home that night. I was like ‘Really?’ but it was, you know it was, like it’s just a different way of life. NN: And it’s a safe space for them. NC: It’s a very safe space, and I don’t, I don’t hear about The Dunes anymore so I don’t know whether or not it’s, it’s still a destination, I’m not sure, because you know everything is acceptable now. You know, you can go to any hotel it doesn’t matter, you know but I don’t know if they still, do they still have their bar and dancing, and? NN: Yeah, it still very much a destination for that community. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 13 NC: It is. I did have a friend who, who made a reservation there that was not gay [Laughs] NN: Okay, that may have been a bit of a surprise. NC: Their, their stories were hysterical. NN: Yes, but everybody’s perspective is different…. NC: Exactly…. NN: …and it can be very eye opening…. NC: …It is!. NN: In one of the other interviews, as part of this project was with a couple of owners from The Dunes Resort…. NC: …Yes. NN: and, and that’s part of why this whole project is so valuable, is to get all these different points of view…. NC…Right…. NN: …Of the same time period…. NC: Right, right…. NN: to really stich that…. NC: [speaking over NN] Now are the same owners, do they still own that? NN: I believe they sold it recently. Within the last…. NC: …well I know they were older…. NN: Yeah, yeah, but they’re still around. NC: I know. NN: Which is good. NC: I didn’t know if they still owned it or not. NN: Yes. Um, so [pause] you mentioned the different phases kind of…. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 14 NC: …Yes. NN: In the community. The college students came first. Do you recall anything else about when the town would be shut down for college weekends? NC: I mean they, they had to shut it down because you literally could not move. You could not move through town, you couldn’t bring a car through because there was so many kids in the streets. You know, it was, it was just really fun and I mean, I was young, I was probably 15 or 16 years old and they were, you know 18 to 21, you know so they were a lot crazier then I was then but I loved it, it was so much fun. Just being there, and my parents again, would drop me off you know at the corner, and then we would walk home so we would have to walk down Blue Star and go all the way around to the other side because the Ferry would stop running, at 9 or 10 o’clock so that didn’t help us. NN: Right, so these were late nights? NC: They were late nights, yes and you didn’t worry about walking around. You know and even with my own children, they had a lot more freedom here than they did back home. Growing up in, they grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, but you know we would allow them to stay out, they’d be out till 2 in the morning with their friends you know, they’d be down at Douglas beach, climbing over the fence you know to go down there, you just didn’t worry. NN: Yeah. NC: You know, and nothing ever happened you know, luckily. So, we were very very lucky. I don’t know if we’d do that with the grandkids now [laughs] It’s a little different now, you know because you hear different things that are going on, so, but that’s just the world. NN: Yeah, yep. Do you recall, even though you were younger do you remember any of the destinations, or that, that these college students would frequent? Or was, were they just in the street. NC: It was, they were in the street. They were, it was right by Coral Gables. That whole area like Marro’s, Coral Gables, um, whatever that store is Good Goods or whatever it is, I always call it Home Goods since we use that name now. But that whole area, those streets were just filled with kids you know so, and there weren’t many adults around, very few. There were police, they brought in the state police, they had brown uniforms on I believe, or whatever color they were. So, they were walking around to take care of the people that were really intoxicated or on drugs, because drugs were big thing back then. NN: They were? NC: Huge thing. Right. That was, that was, very, it was just in the ‘60’s you know, so you got the flower children. NN: Right. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 15 NC: And the college kids were very out spoken back then. NN: Yeah, well that was…. NC: [Over NN] Kent State, Vietnam…. NN: …It was a, uh, sort of a tenacious time, right? NC: It was! It really really was you know and like I said, being from my Catholic school I was not involved in a lot of that so, when I came here it kind of opened my eyes to a lot of different things that I could see. NN: Okay. Hmm, which, what was the name of the school that you went to? NC: I went to Aquinas…. NN: …Okay. NC: Which was right in Chicago. NN: Okay, alright. Um, [pause] did, thinking again just sort of real quick about the crazy college times, did it seem like the Police were in control of the situation? [00:25:02] NC: Oh god no!. NN: Definitely not? NC: Oh god no, no [laughs] No there was no control, they were just crazy. I mean it was just liquor out on the streets and people running around, yelling, and just having a great time. You know what, but I think what the Police did was they contained it to the area. NN: Oh, okay. NC: So it didn’t move outwards into the residential area. NN: Kind of keeping an informal perimeter sort of thing. NC: Right, right. Do you know because they didn’t want it to go into the residential area where the families were living? NN: Right. NC: So, but it was all in the downtown area. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 16 NN: Okay, alright, um, so, your family still comes…. NC: …we do…. NN: To Saugatuck, yes? NC: Yes. NN: How many people are in the family now? . NC: Okay, um, in my family let’s see there my husband and I, you have my mother in law, two girls, two guys, 1, 2, 3, there’s 11 of us and my brother has 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, he has 13. So, and we share the cottage, I get a week, he gets a week. NN: Okay. Alright, because I was going to say if there is only 2 bedrooms, that’s a lot of people. NC: Right, right. We, we tag team and even with my family, when they come up we kind of alternate. Like my husband will not stay if all the kids are coming up, he and my mother in law go home because then it’s a little too chaotic for my mother in law at 92. NN: Absolutely. NC: You know but, but I will be there with like the grandkids and everything. My oldest grandson is 21 so he works and is in college so he doesn’t come up as much. But he’s the one that spent most of his life up here in the summers. NN: Okay, alright. NC: He spent his, almost the entire summer here with me, and he was the one that was involved with like, he went to art colony took classes, he went did sailing, he did swimming here, he had lots of friends around here, local friends so, his, his life during the summer really revolved around Saugatuck, so…. NN: That’s great. NC: It is, it’s really nice and it was nice that I could be there to be with him the whole time. NN: Sure, can you tell me just a little bit about your mother in law, at age 92 she’s been coming here for quite a while. Okay. NC: She has! She loves the beach too, she’s a beach person. She grew up in Hyde Park…. NN: Okay. NC: In Chicago and so she also spent her summers on the beach there. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 17 NN: Okay. NC: So, and we have a home now in Florida too, so we, we winter and we spend time on the beach there. Hence, hence the wrinkles! [Laughs] NN: Good looking wrinkles. NC: As it, that’s what happens when you’re in the sun too much. NN: What is her name? NC: Her name is Imogene and her last name is Craen. . NN: Okay, same spelling. NC: Yes, exactly. Yes and she’s, she’s been with us for um, she’s been living with us for 4 years. NN: Okay, alright. NC: So, but she came up here with my mom and dad a lot, after her husband passed away. So she spent a lot of time up here too with my parents. NN: Wonderful!. NC: Yeah, yeah. I mean life is good. NN: That’s great, that’s great. Um, so I guess looking a little long range now into the future, just thinking about it. You know, what are your hopes for the future of Saugatuck and this area? . NC: You know what, I like the direction it’s gone in. It’s, it’s very very nice, I don’t like the Douglas road now, but [Laughs] other, other than that, I really have no complaints I think that its, it’s become a very um, I love the arts center, um, I love the plays, there’s so much culture here that you can utilize. It’s almost like a mini Chicago. I feel like when I come here, you know, you can be exposed to almost anything and the people that have moved in, their homes are absolutely gorgeous I mean you drive anywhere throughout the town and everything is kept up beautifully. You know, so I am hoping that it will continue on that way, we won’t have our drips like we did in the past you know where things have fallen down a little bit, you know and I’m hoping that we’re going to continue on this path because it’s really nice, and it’s a great place people come here and they want to move here. You know, I don’t know how many of my friends have actually become residents here. So, I will never become a resident here because I, I like Florida and you know, whatever, and I do like Chicago my family’s back there so I will never live here full time but I spend a lot of time. NN: But summer. NC: Right, and and the weeks that I’m not here because my brothers here, I go to Renee’s house. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 18 NN: Okay. [Both Laugh] and, and just for the record, who is Renee? What’s the relation? NC: Renee Zita, and that whole family, as you know is just everywhere so they’re wonderful people and they are my, like my sisters. NN: Okay, alright, and what is your actual relation to Renee? NC: As a friend. NN: As a friend, okay. NC: Yes, I, I met her mother, Ann when were very young, and in our, she was in her 50’s and I was in my 40’s, I think that’s very young, I’m sure you don’t. But, but we were best friends for many many years and, then I became friends with all the girls, and her brothers. NN: Okay, okay, and that was Ann Rinaldi? NC: Ann Rinaldi, yes. NN: Alright, okay, um, so keep in mind that…. [00:30:01] NC: Yes. NN: That this interview will be saved for a very long time. NC: Okay!. NN: Maybe accessed long into the future, so if someone were to listen to this, 40 or 50 years from now what would you like them to know? What else would you like them to know about the community, or about your family or? NC: That there’s no better place, and its home, and I was telling the girl that took my picture, I said you know when you come in from Chicago when you’re not a full time resident and you pass that Michigan sign on the expressway you kind of go ‘Ah’, its home, you know, and it is cause you come here and you basically forget anything that is going on in your life. You just, it’s really a nice place to be, and I can see why people want to live here because of that, because it is so nice and the community is wonderful, so, great people. NN: Good, um, this just prompted one other real quick question, uh, even thinking back to when you were, when you were very young, um, and coming here, did you always drive? Did your family always drive? �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 19 NC: We did always drive, yes, no air conditioning. My father drove here, when he was a little boy when they bought the cottage. NN: Okay. NC: They um, I don’t know what kind of cars they drove back then in the 1930’s but I remember him saying they used to have bring a lot of tires because there was a lot of um, gravel roads that they would have to travel and it would blow out the tires so they would have to change tires quite often, so but they had a, they had a car, my father had a car form the time he was born, so. NN: Okay, alright, because I know the Blue Star Highway was not completed until the late ‘30s. NC: Right. NN: And so, before that there were a lot of zigs and zags. NC: Yes. NN: Kind of to come up along the lakeshore. NC: Now when I, when I came up we took um, we took like 1220 and then we went to Red, Red Arrow or 31 whatever it was, there was no expressway. NN: Right. NC: So, it did take us from Chicago, took about 3 and half hours. NN: Okay, to make that trip. NC: Right. NN: Before the freeway. NC: Right, and no air conditioning. [Both laugh] NN: At least you were close to the lake!. NC: And luck, luckily there only, you know only two of us in the back seat you know with the line down the middle of the thing so you didn’t touch each other. NN: Of course, of course. Dou remember what kind of car that was? NC: It was um, the first one was a Mercury, like a big old blue Mercury in 1953. NN: Okay. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 20 NC: And from there we went to a Comet in 1962, you know, a little cars and after that we got the Chavelles. NN: Okay. NC: That’s when I could drive. NN: Alright. NC: I actually learned how to drive here too. NN: Oh, really? NC: I did! On Wiley, my father, Wiley and what’s the street where Burger King is? 64th? NN: 64th. NC: Okay, when I was really little my dad would put me on his lap on 64th when we’d go to Holland and he’d let us steer. NN: Okay. NC: When I got to be about 10, he took us to Wiley between um, Blue Star and the lake and he would let us drive, the car. [Both laugh] Up and down Wiley. You know, and then he taught us how to do a threepoint turn where the Miro is, you know that’s, so I learned how to drive here. NN: That’s fascinating. NC: I know! Yeah, so by the time I was 16 I was a, you know Hell on wheels. [Both laugh] NN: No problem. That’s great!. NC: So it’s been a great place for me. NN: Okay, couple more questions. Were almost done. NC: Yes! I’m not in any hurry!. NN: Okay, um, again thinking that you know, who knows who might listen to this in the future. NC: Right. NN: Do you have any thoughts or advise for a younger person who might listen to this tape? NC: Oh, come here as much as often. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 21 NN: Okay. NC: I mean, all the time, seriously because it just really refreshes you and makes you feel fantastic. NN: Very good. NC: Buy something here. [Laughs] . NN: Yes, yes. NC: When the prices are down. [Laughs] NN: From time to time, hopefully that happens. NC: Yeah well not now. [Laughs] NN: Not at the moment, no. Um, and I think the last question is just, is there any other stories you can think of, any other…. NC: I don’t think so, not that, not that I know right now. NN: Okay. NC: If I think of anything I can send them to you. NN: Please, you know where to find us. NC: But at this, at this point I can’t. I will talk to my brother and see if he as anything else. NN: Okay. The other thing, just so you know, as part of this whole project is that, um, we are also scanning photographs and that sort of thing, so that, and you can take them back…. NC: Right. NN: …were not keeping them. But this way we sort of have digital records and images that match the stories that we’re hearing. NC: Okay. NN: So um, if you come across any…. NC: I will look. NN: Scrapbooks, anything. NC: I have lots and lots of photos in my closet. �Nancy Crean - Interviewed by Nathan Neitering June 6 2018 22 NN: Okay. Alright, well Nancy thank you so much for sharing your time and your memories with me, this concludes our interview. NC: Thank you. [00:34:28] � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c548eb9cbf7118dbdf21453d11531922.jpg 01f372b99dae23b02551cf80ded6224e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0030 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948-06-04 Title A name given to the resource P.G. Walter First Grade promotion certificate Description An account of the resource Certificate of promotion to the first grade at Saugatuck Public Schools for P.G. Walter, 1948 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Certificates Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2e95a15f371cec1f65ec259fe7f133ed.jpg a2c488c458f10116c1396b913ffd0e51 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0029 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Title A name given to the resource Big Pavillion Ballroom Description An account of the resource Photograph of the interior of Big Pavilion, advertised as the largest dance floor East of the Mississippi River. In the photograph there are two men in a dome like room. A orchestra is in the distance. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Ballrooms Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/8b57631c242ad1f5f757562c4b8f3142.jpg 9cac5b1b886920608936881c7c4b2032 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0028 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Title A name given to the resource Fishtown and Lighthouse near Kalamazoo River Description An account of the resource Copy of a foldout photograph of a lighthouse and a few houses near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Kalamazoo River (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/550919f412fa117fa3c34601941d5675.jpg f643d144d684c1ee910027032884eb80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0027 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Title A name given to the resource Fold-out with historic Saugatuck, Michigan photographs Description An account of the resource Copy of a fold-out with three images: "Indians of the Area," "Famous Sand Dune, Mt. Baldhead," and "Singapore - the Buried City, 1863." Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ec5287c04c2d4a64bbd73e84030c063a.jpg ff17ec4be543457e8cac646f4d69fe11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0024 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974-03-12 Title A name given to the resource Florence Sewers American Legion Auxiliary membership card copy Description An account of the resource White and black copy of American Legion Auxiliary membership card of Florence Sewers issued in Saugatuck, Michigan. 1974 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) American Legion Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/32047a8b0158c06c14206a4f6fe7fbce.jpg c2ce4ce27b03d3bbcc47815ceb7aa416 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0023 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974-03-12 Title A name given to the resource Florence Sewers American Legion Auxiliary membership card Description An account of the resource Black and silver American Legion Auxiliary membership card of Florence Sewers issued in Saugatuck, Michigan. 1974 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) American Legion Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0e2534ec83b25aaa53e4446fef215971.pdf d9886596fcb10f1468b3e83e49018d06 PDF Text Text ��� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0020 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950-05-24 Title A name given to the resource Women's Masonic Chapter Golden Anniversary program Description An account of the resource 35th Anniversary program for a women's Masonic organization in Saugatuck Michigan, Chapter 285. Possibly Order of the Eastern Star or Job's Daughters, 1950 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Freemasons Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/34704cb9e2f3b3c94909674779febbdc.pdf ff0e40b3a05b732d75a76f4c87d74d36 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Title A name given to the resource Saugatuck High School 1960 Commencement program Description An account of the resource Commencement program for the 1960 Saugatuck High School ceremony. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Commencement ceremonies Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d47716db1456aecf525ecbbf42478a3f.jpg 1b9f190f7e80b01b4aae6cda497cd123 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0017 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1957-12-18 Title A name given to the resource Newspaper clipping, "The Press State Page," Saugatuck Sea Scouts on Mt. Baldhead Description An account of the resource Newspaper clipping from the Press State Page with picture of the Saugatuck Sea Scouts standing on the stairs up Mt. Baldhead, as well as articles on local changes, surrounding the school, signs being replaced, and driver reform. December 18, 1957 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Newspapers Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4347c237613b882dfda1ef04cee78d33.jpg a1d6f7a087ef29e86952d39037831521 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a0037c9f68eec2eaa5899e8ac5d8da4f.jpg cddc55cc3ecc8fad8f4011701fac1fbb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0015 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Title A name given to the resource Boating on Muskegon River postcard Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph postcard of the bank of the Muskegon River in Saugatuck, Michigan with a few small sailboats in the short distance. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Boats Docks Muskegon River (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/47faf413aeed1e49d52a4a4d349156c5.jpg 7dfd1f82dc29bd488ac0b1ce5ae5725d https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/cb96794aede81d956e17eb337d3d6b50.jpg 8d88ed0b9b8d1e24231be03c9c4d0607 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0013 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955 Title A name given to the resource The Village Street, Saguatuck Michigan postcard Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph postcard of a commercial street with several parked cars, circa 1955. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Automobiles Postcards Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/136242ab6d91ca143a086f3c25df909c.jpg 0bf89f74f7155b186313b8e2ca1f9fb6 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/71b4c8f1971e57b1b1b23820d2c038ba.jpg 3b02cb4f767f4e9770317dcdf8ce8e8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955 Title A name given to the resource Boats on Lake Kalamazoo postcard Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph postcards of boats on Lake Kalamazoo in Saugatuck, Michigan. Circa 1955 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Boats Docks Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3e9f21b17a195f9151dcefad059d3d44.pdf ad9612a2e8ae07c06566d91d3b8cba88 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0010 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Title A name given to the resource Reb Barn Theatre program Description An account of the resource Cover and back of Red Barn Theatre program, circa 1960 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Playbills Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/abae9aff4372acc4213ced1eb839e5d2.jpg 3d19f9cd7545de600e343575cd35b586 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f693a094f2899c11b1688295a3143d57.jpg 2928eebdc3b98089e416ad2ff2113d76 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941-12-07 Title A name given to the resource Lucille on Pearl Harbor Day Description An account of the resource Photograph of a woman in the front seat of a car. Back reads "Lucille on Pearl Harbor Day." December 7, 1941 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c82337ee62f88ca5677acc0587bcc75e.jpg 861afe2e88170eadcef4fc0b4be477b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 Title A name given to the resource Man pushing a steel drum Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a man in a white uniform pushing a cart with a white metal drum down the street in front of a Rexall Drug Store. Circa 1950 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a55dbb9bf8da6860650c4cc47e1a37c8.jpg 4ded7cb93e5b6d1fd1c679d8209b6f21 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2ad3b642cdf6a80c8c028c98a6e48739.jpg fb604e28f1b200efb783d786ef920911 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0005 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 Title A name given to the resource Couple at the Brookfield Zoo Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a man and woman linking arms and dressed in winter coats at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Subject The topic of the resource Illinois Chicago (Ill.) Brookfield Zoo (Ill.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/57a86f9418d35268f4518953fdd4fcaf.jpg 92f4947378493aa11e00bdf9e88db4ec https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e1471d9f5de62c9587f9635dd2352456.jpg e10163b0f003dbe3211f9a5d85252451 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0003 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955 Title A name given to the resource Group of girls in 18th century costumes Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a group of girls of varying ages in 18th century dresses and bonnets. Rear of photo lists names. Circa 1955 Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Historical reenactments Children Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6605b64acca185704f7e3ece65d3f998.jpg e6c2a2235ccca4c82459750e5cdef12c https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/63e853392590a6f6afc989718d0bb951.jpg 627f63d7d061e7651c8d9bdd2c5c4743 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Saugatuck-Douglas History Center Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Walter-PG_0001 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter, P. G. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1956 Title A name given to the resource Saugatuck Cadet Band Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the Saugatuck Cadet Band in the spring of 1956, for the Holland Literary Club Program."First time in uniform." Names listed on the back. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Bands (Music) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives