Memories of
Saugatuck Douglas
An important, but often neglected, part
of a local history is made up of the treasured memories and favorite stories of
the people who have lived there. These are often more personal than matters of
public and political impact, but they are no less significant to telling the
story of the community and its people.
You are invited to submit your own
stories and photos which will become a part of these internet archives. Email
Chris Yoder at cyoder@tds.net or call him
at: 857-4327.
Some local stories:
Stories from the 2003 Museum Exhibit,
all written by SDHS historian/story teller extraordinaire
Jim Schmiechen,
and titled:
1)
Saugatuck's
House of the Seven Gables
3)
Black Bears, Fat Men, and
Mt. Baldhead
4)
A Boy Meets a Remarkable
Man
5)
Helen's Chair and the
History of the World
8)
The Famous Kids on Spear
Street
9)
Two Brothers
10)
Mrs. Swift's Heaven on
Earth
a.
John Pahl Tells the Story As Told by May Heath (Audio WMA File
For IBM)
b.
John Pahl Tells the Story As Told by May Heath (Audio mp3 File
For Apple)
12)
He Heard Music in the
Woods
Stories
From The Historical Society Newsletter- 1996-2008
New
Stories, Include your own!
1)
Whistling
Bill - Feb 2009
2)
Who
Planted This Tree? - Feb 2009
3)
Pearl
and Charles Parrish. They Built Saugatuck Drug - Apr 2009
4)
Who
is the Oldest Person in the Saugatuck-Douglas Cemeteries? -
5)
Historic
Saugatuck Chair Now Lives in Connecticut (Mar 2009)
6)
1933
Pavilion Contest Remembered - Apr 2009
7)
The
James Avery Toolbox - by Brian Erickson Apr 2009
8)
Rosemont-Story
of A Douglas Lakeshore Resort - by Bob
Erickson Apr 2009
9)
Paradise
- Reminiscence of her time at the
Presbyterian Camp- by Dawn Schumann- June 2009
10)
The
Hershaws Come To Saugatuck-1935 -
June 2009
11)
More
Centenarians - June 2009
12)
1956-57
SHS Basketball Team and CR Dietary Advice- Aug 2009
13)
Strange
Fish Caught In Saugatuck - Sept 2009
14)
The
Dole Family of Saugatuck -by Andrea Olmanson- Oct
2009
15)
Treasures
In The Singapore Sands - Nov. 2009
16)
Memories
of Michigan's Youngest Police Chief -Saugatuck 1958 -
by Russell Colling-Nov. 2009
17)
The
Old Chain Ferry- Written by May Francis Heath, June 14-Flag Day 1931
18)
How I Got Here- by
Patricia Meyer Diepenhorst, Feb. 2010
19)
History of Saugatuck
Steamers- From the Commercial Record
20)
The Heinze
Resort/Jacob Fox- Feb 2010
21)
William Chadbourne-
Saugatuck-Douglas Hotel Keeper- Mar 2010
22)
Old Maples at
Riverside Cemetery-Apr 2010
23)
Charles J. Frehse- First Saugatuck Casualty in WWI- May 2010
24)
R.
G. Huntinghouse-Dance Instructor Extraordinaire- Jun 2010
25)
Winifred
Cummings Autograph Book - Jul 2010
26)
Huntinghouse's
Non-sinkable Swim Suit --by Marion Britz- Aug 2010
27)
Stories
From The Turtle Pond- Sept 2010
28)
Widow of Prominent
Abolitionist in Taylor Cemetery- Oct. 2010
29)
Warner P.
Sutton- The Diplomat From Saugatuck- Pt.1- Nov. 2010
30)
Warner P.
Sutton- The Diplomat From Saugatuck- Pt 2- Dec. 2010
31)
A Dozen Daffodils For
The Dearly Departed- Dec. 2010
32)
Richard B. Newnham (1819-1908)- By Sylvia Booth- Jan 2011
33)
Frank W. Wade -
First White Child Born in Douglas -Feb 2011
34)
Early
Days on the Lake Shore -by Dorothy Garesche
Holland -Mar. 2011
35)
Rev.
Alexander Thomson- Minister and Poet- Apr. 2011
36)
Grandsons
of Chief Pokagon At Riverside Cemetery- May 2011
37)
Rev.
Thomson Writes of Saugatuck Folklore- June 2011
38)
Cephas Field- 1850 Lighthouse Keeper- July 2011
39)
Harnassing the Bean- by R. G. Huntinghouse-
Aug 2011