Footprints

Marge Roche

Description

(from the original jacket) Palisades Park is a summer community of 200 cottages scattered throughout the dunes and along the shore of Lake Michigan, seven miles south of South Haven, MI. Since "the place we call Palisades Park" has encompassed a long and interesting story of its own, the book puts our small community into a broader context by including information on the area's geology as well as its Native American and Lumber Era days.

Sujets

• Midwest
• Histoire
• Míchigan
• Bill Potter
• Footprint
• South Haven
• State
• Palisade
• Lake Michigan
• Palisades
• Palisades Park
• United States
• History
• Local
• Michigan

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781681624167
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 18 Mo

Extrait

DEDICATION
To M ARILYN H ENKEL
T hose who know Marilyn will understand her deep commitment to this book. She joked once that it was like giving birth to another child, and truly, it was. She worked thousands of hours to pull together the articles and stories contained here, to type them into the computer, design the pages, proof-read time after time after time, and revise based on the opinions of at least a dozen readers. Her husband, Donald, joined in her efforts, drawing together thousands of historical photos, scanning them into the computer, and organizing them for the book.

A common theme throughout this book is the magic of Palisades Park that draws us back year after year, generation after generation. Marilyn first visited the park as a young child and now she watches her grandchildren playing where she once played. Perhaps it was this intangible thread of time, which drew Marilyn through the arduous process of compiling this book. Even when facing difficult health, her overriding concern was to finish this. Her family is extremely proud of her work and grateful for this gift. She has not only made the history of our beloved park tangible and enduring, but she has also left her grandchildren and future generations a legacy that will live far into the future.
Donna Goscinski
T O K ATY B ECK
K aty Beck s love for Palisades Park began in the early 1940 s when, as a child, she helped her father design Sundune Cottage. Her childhood summers were spent with family and friends climbing sand dunes, wandering beechwood forests and swimming in Lake Michigan. She has come for 66 years, worked throughout the park, gotten married here, watched her children and her grandchildren grow up here. The fifth generation of Katy s family, too learned to appreciate varied aspects of undisturbed nature amid the abundant rustic beauty of Palisades Park. The latest generations are also starting to see the racial and cultural diversity of the world join the natural biodiversity of the area.

Katy has endeavored to draw forth meaning through an understanding of human interdependence and connection and its role in the lives, past, present and future, of humanity. Her love of nature and desire to share it with as many people as she can, and her respect for people of diversity, have driven Katy to put down on paper the histories of land and peoples of the area. Her dedication to this project, and her commitment over the twenty-five years in collecting and compiling oral histories and data have compelled her to see this history published. This book binds the fast to the future. It was written so that people who have shared the park over the past 100 years lend a voice to the present and leave a legacy for the future.
Tom Beck
Statement of their friendship :
M arilyn and Katy have been Palisades friends for more than four decades. Just as they once shared summertime picnics and memories on the beach with their children they continue to share this time with their children s children. The making of this history book has been a labor and a love for both of them.
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Copyright 2004, Palisades Park Country Club
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Palisades Park Country Club.
Library of Congress Control No. 2004105836
ISBN: 978-1-56311-977-4
Limited Edition
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Cover photograph by Nanette Draper Lewis
Dedicated to all the people whose Footprints we have followed - who have loved, protected, and been touched by This Place That We Call Palisades Park .
Table of Contents
Preface
Thanks
What is Palisades Park?
Arthur Quick s Vision
Poem: I Am Palisades Park
Chapter 1: The Place We Call Palisades Park
Poem: A Sand Dune
Our Dunelands
Poem: Evening Panorama
Principal Stages in Evolution of Great Lakes
Palisades Park - Geologically Speaking
Our Inland Sea - Lake Michigan
History of Vegetation on the Lake Michigan Dunes
Dune Dweller Lives Alone and Likes It
Early Footprints
Interviews
Lucy and George Bennett
Candi Wesaw
Gerald Wesaw
Covert Township and the Lumbering Days
South Haven in 1902
Piers at Palisades
Chapter 2: The Early Years (1905 - 1920)
Arthur Quick
Palisades Park Opened on the Brandywine
First 21 Cottages
The Sturtevants and Their Lodge
Robert Ballou
Water Works
Sinks Grocery Store
Letters Home
Poem: There Is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods
Interviews
Mary Kay Goodridge
Hazel Harper
Ruth Kropp
Vashti Blaney/Mardy Mehagan Mavor
Mardy Mehagan Mavor
Gwen Miller
Mary Lee Tillson
Charley Tunecke
Betty and Ray Woodhouse
Poem: Winter Day In Palisades
Memories
Margaret Abbott
Marion Hamilton
Anna Holmes
Pauline Sauer
Virginia Steinbacher
Poem: Oh, the Wide Sky
Chapter 3: The 20 s
The Story of the Clubhouse
The Old Golf Course and its Designer, Tom Bendelow
1924 Court Case
Interviews
David Filkins
Florence Heitner and Joyce Heitner Lloyd
Betty Householder
Jayne Mathias
Lou and Thelma Weston
Betty Wintermute
Memories
Virginia Melchert Coleman
Ray Cooney
Jeanne DeLamarter
Poems: Sea Gulls and Remembered Country
Bill Ferry
The Tipping Point of Tolerance
Kathryn Welles Goff
Margaret Heisel
Bill Keehn
Isabel Larson
Ginny Peirce Richards
Margaret Sauer
Poem: Pebbles of the Past
Mary K. Shepardson
Jeanne Welles Sturgeon
Chapter 4: The 30 s
The Arts Community
The Start of the Patter
A Race with a Purpose
Fishing
1931 By-Laws and Restrictions
Tony Canonie
Interviews
Connie Borchert
Esther Brand and Peg Ingles Brand
Poem: Reflections on the Family Cottage
Forest Lowrey
Tony Malinowski
Talitha Peat
Bill Potter
Tony and Pearl Sarno
Poem: A Heavenly Show
Memories
Katy Beatty Beck
Pat Peat Dusendschon
Marty Edwards
Freida Eldredge
Bert Henderson, Esmah Orcutt, and Clara Strothers
Mary Lou Hession
Nan Draper Lewis
Color Photo Section
Old Timer
Doris Patterson
Paul Schlacks
Jim Williams
Chapter 5: The 40 s
History of the Circle
Signs of the Times
Covert Library and Nellie Palmer
The Brandywine
August 17, 1940 Patter
Fires
The Covert Fire Department
Interviews
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Campbell
Mr. Ben Iverson
Helen Packard
Memories
Lori Anderson Dillman
Eleanor DiLuigi
Bill Eldredge
Sally Davis Ellis
Wendy Easterbrook Litterst-Day and Judy Easterbrook Coker-Green
Betty Lukey
Chapter 6: The Ensuing Decades
Clubhouse Plays
Interview : Cecil Burrous
Park Resident Managers
Loyal Workers in the 50 s
Tragedy at Palisades
The Nine Old Men
Past Presidents
A Plane Comes Down
The Monster Down the Beach
Holiday Celebrations
Ethnic Dinners
Memories : Fran Prange and Happy Valley
The Tennis Program
Memorials in the Park
The Pal-Hill Sailing Races
A Toast to Summer Romance
Chapter 7: Lake Michigan: Our Untamed Treasure
The Beach
Lake Levels
Storms
Shore Protection
Chapter 8: Nature Programs
Our Sanctuary
Through the Eyes of Anne Fuller and Friends
Jack Gardner and Our Trails
Memories : Rob Venner
Chapter 9: Cottages
Cottage History Chart
Cottage Histories
Afterword
Changed or Changeless?
Appendix
The Editors
Future Editors
Cottage Names/Numbers/Owners
Cottage Numbers/Addresses/Owners
Early Sales
Associate Membership List
Photo Credits
Preface
Arthur Quick, the founder of Palisades Park, wrote in the Introduction to his book, Wild Flower of the Northern States and Canada , that - from early spring until snow flies - he planned to conduct his reader on a weekly hike through the Michigan dunes on the writer s own grounds - Palisades Park. Our book, also, will stroll through those same Michigan dunes, looking not for all the Wild Flowers that are in bloom but for footprints from an earlier time - those illusive and fading guides to where we have been and - perhaps - to where we are going.
The editor would assert the importance of keeping the history of the Park alive. Our hat are off to the earlier committee which, in 1984, decided to embark on an oral history project. Many of their voices, as well a the voices of those interviewed, are now stilled. We feel fortunate that their insights were saved. David Baldacci says it well in his Author s Note of the novel, Wish You Well (New York, NY: Warner Books Inc., p.x.): Oral histories show appropriate respect for the lives and experiences of those who have come before. And, just as important, they document those remembrances, for once those lives are over, that personal knowledge is lost forever. Unfortunately, we live in a time now where everyone seems to be solely looking ahead, as though we deem nothing in the past worthy of our attention. The future is always fresh and exciting, and it has a pull on us that time past imply can never muster. Yet it may well be that our greatest wealth a human being can be discovered by imply looking behind us.
This is our story. In 1984 and 1985, a Palisades History Committee met with the intent of updating the previous written history of the Park, Palisades Park Review. 1905-1968 . This committee began to gather old picture and initiated a series of taped interview of some 23 Park old-timers. Despite the coming and going of various volunteers over the next years, the tapes were slowly transcribed and typed. Certain historical document were gathered, research continued, new photo discovered. By the end of 1999, the project was stalled. Finally, in the summer of 2000 the present editor teamed up. We collected more pictures, scanned old Patters , elicited the help of and contribution from other Park members, and continued research. We edited the interview into narrative (maintaining the voice of the interviewees). Maril