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- This radio broadcast tells the story of the US Coast Guard Cutter Woodbine and its search and recovery operations in the United Airlines crash near Chicago on Monday, August 16, 1965. There were no survivors. The second half of the recording is the decommissioning ceremony of the Woodbine. The history of the ship is also given.
- Date Issued:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- First half of this recording features the dedication of the Nativity Scene on Dewey Hill in Grand Haven in 1964. The program starts with a short introduction, a prayer, and a speech by Governor George Romney followed by the Nativity Scene program. The second half of the recording, which begins at 33 minutes into the file, consists of the WGHN radio program featuring Grand Haven resident Raymond O'Malley recalling the sinking of the USCG Cutter Escanaba in June 1943. The Escanaba was destroyed while on escort duty from Greenland and sank in less than one minute leaving only two survivors in near freezing waters.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Grand Haven resident Chris Endenburg recalls growing up in the Netherlands during World War II. Tom Puleo interviews Endenburg about all aspects of the German occupation, from forced labor camps, dodging Nazi officers, the Dutch black market, concentration camps, to the liberation of his country by the Canadian Army in 1945. Chris also recalls his emigration to America.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Harold Scholtz graduated from college in 1937 with a degree in commercial art and worked for Continental Motors in Muskegon, designing and writing manuals for their engines. He talks about assuming the management of the Tom Johnston Gravel Company in Ferrysburg when his brother-in-law, Tom Johnston, died in 1957. Harold describes in detail his education at Central School, Columbus Street School, and Michigan State College. He recalls his early jobs working in horse stalls, at the Highland Park Hotel, Tom Thumb Golf, and as a truck driver for the Vyn Company and reminisces about his uncle August Boseker and his involvement with Highland Park.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In his radio program Talk with Old-Timers, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. During this program, John tells the story of going to Grand Rapids to sell a directory of Grand Haven to businesses. He describes the businesses in downtown Grand Haven and their owners. He also recalls the Wiley Water Works, the Magnetic Mineral Springs, The Cutler House, and the bad snowstorms of 1915 and 1936.
- Date Issued:
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Glenn Eaton served the city of Grand Haven first as a member of the City Council and then as Mayor. He was also active in the Tri-Cities Historical Society and as part of the Coast Guard Festival management team. He served on the Board of Light and Power and the Duncan Park Commission and devoted over sixty years of service to the Boy Scouts. In 1973, he was given the Meritorious Public Service Award for his work with the United States Coast Guard and the promotion of the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival. In this interview, Glenn discusses his projects with the Coast Guard, including the dedication of the mast of the USCG cutter Escanaba, and his continued interest in Duncan Woods.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In his monthly radio program Memories of the Past, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. In this program, John talks about the Grand Haven city founders and the early government. John has historical booklets that he describes. This starts conversations about the lumbering industry, the Board of Trade, Nat Brown's experiments with kite photography and Isaac N. Tubbs's photography business.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This is a recording of the 28th annual Tri-Cities Historical Museum's Heritage Dinner and meeting, held November 5, 1987. Guest speaker Wilbur Rykert gives an account of the life of Rix Robinson, one of Grand Haven's early settlers who gave the city its name. Rykert presents Robinson's early life, his political career, his fur trading business that included the Grand, Kalamazoo, and Muskegon Rivers. Robinson's successful relations with local Native American tribes are also highlighted. According to historian Wallace K. Ewing, "In 1821, he helped with a treaty between the U.S. Government and the Pottawatomie Indians. Another treaty in 1836 ceded all land north of the Grand River to the U.S. Government. Respected by both Native Americans and Whites for his fairness, intelligence, and knowledge of the wilderness, Rix was credited with founding West Michigan ... In 1821 he married Pemissquotoquay, "Flying-Cloud Woman," the daughter of a Chief of the Pere Marquette Indians [Chief Hazy Cloud]." Rykert also gives a general overview of Michigan history in the 1800s.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Betty Fisher was employed as civil service secretary in the Grand Haven Coast Guard office for many years. She remembers the early Coast Guard picnics for the crew and their families and gives details about local Coast Guard history, including stations and office headquarters. She also recalls the day that the USCG Cutter Escanaba came to town in 1932. In 1939, Betty went to work in Chicago for the Coast Guard and later to Cleveland, Ohio, during World War II but returned to Grand Haven to become a life-long resident. In 1967, she retired as secretary from Challenge Stamping and Porcelain.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Glenn DePagter, one of the original engineers who designed Grand Haven's Musical Fountain, recalls its planning and construction. The fountain, which opened as a tourist attraction in 1965, became the largest of its kind in the world. Glenn also gives a detailed description of Grand Haven's first hospital and remembers the influential Loutit family and their home, where his father Isaac worked as a maintenance man. As a young man, Glenn served in World War II and was later employed by Eastern Airlines, where he worked on the first jet engine. He discusses his later career at Keller Tool/Gardner Denver, where he began employment in 1951 as a designer of pneumatic tools, and recalls early analog computer systems.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection