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  • Description: Ray Foster grew up on a family farm near Douglas, Michigan. In this interivew, Foster remembers the motorcycle gangs driving through town during summer holiday weekends, the rock music festival in 1968, and the Saugatuck Jazz Festival.
  • Subject: Music festivals
  • Text: 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
Raymond Foster (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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  • Text: in the lake, learning, working with the trawlers for a while, then playing music with with the locals. We had a band way back then with Pete Hungerford and many... Jack Wulkan. Dave Rafinauld on Leo.... these guys are all dead. But I'm not. KK: You're not. AL
Al Weener (audio interview and transcript) 2018

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  • Text: JA: Oh yeah 38:18 EG: Or kind of just the dynamics. The vibe 38:21 JA: Oh. Well, I mean, there were long lines to get in, and it was just, fun. People watching and seeing what they wear and the music blaring. And you know, visitors all over, and boats
Jeanmarie Hays Arnold (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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  • Text: going on in the late 1960s in Saugatuck and elsewhere. Music, popular culture, news. Was there a lot of discussion about that? DK: Some. EG: Were you really kind of isolated from what was going on? DK: It was interesting that especially on Saturday
Dave Karpowicz (audio interview and transcript) 2018
Howard Schultz was born in Douglas, Michigan in 1935. Howard recalls growing up during wartime on the lakeshore.
Howard Schultz (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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  • Subject: Music festivals
Candace Van Oss (Audio interview and transcript, Part 2 of 2), 2018

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  • Text: , “No, no, no, no!” And, so, they listened. 25:04 CS: Then there was another… All these people were coming to the restaurant. There was a group that came it. It was one of the musical groups at that time. I can’t remember the name, but somebody said that’s who
Cynthia Sorenson (audio interview and transcript) 2018
Warren Valleau was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and visited his grandfather's farm in Saugatuck as a child. He recalls his father's work transporting produce, and in foundries in Grand Rapids, as well as his grandparents' associations with artists along the lakeshore.
Warren Valleau (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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  • Text: comes right down. And you just walk right onto it and get into the bus. And um, I’m working with Phyllis right now to get an arrangement for chamber music because the problem with our patrons is parking. 33:35 JO: That’s right 33:36 JM: They get
Joy Muehlenbeck and Jerry Muehlenbeck-Elsinga (Audio interview and transcript), 2018