ESA Memebers!
Grand Haven - Surf City, Michigan museum exhibit will open April 10 and will run through August, 07, but probably at least a month longer.
I suggest visiting it after Memorial Day if you are coming a distance, when the museum is open till 7:30 Tues-Sun and the weather is warmer. Also, we will be adding to the exhibit over the next couple months.
I saw it a few days ago as they were just starting to set it up and it is quite impresive. You will be able to tell right off that surfers had a big hand in it by the quality of the photos, artifacts and storyboards. Hopefully, you will see a noticeable absence of terms like "surf's up" "hang ten" "awesome" and "dude."
The surf exhibit is well worth the trip, but "Mighty Small Circus" exhibit in the room next door is one of the most spectacular exhibits I have ever seen. The whole museum is really a trip! They have a complete life-size Indain/Settler/1890s camp/village/city set up inside the museum!
Realizing that many of you might be traveling a great distance from down-lakes, you are welcome to camp at Aqudoc's Surfer KampgroundsŪ in the nearby Village of Fruitport whcih is near the interchange of I96 and US31 and and a quick easy shot to some of the best breaks in Central West Michigan. The camping it is a bit on the 'roughing it' side and I imagine there will be a bit of 'surf partying' so it probably isn't all that great for 'family' camping, but there are plenty of reasable lodge/camp areas in the area and I can help you find them.
We are already starting work on a wider exhibit for next winter which may cover the hsitory of surfing throughout the Great Lakes region, so it would be much appreciated if you brought along pictures and newspaper/magazine articles to be scanned and processed for the exhibit. We can also make good use of film footage for the kiosks. Even if it is just old 8mm home movie film.
Here is a link to the Grand Haven Tri-Cites Museum General Info page:
http://www.tri-citiesmuseum.org/generalinfo.htm
Doc
[IMG]
[/IMG]
May not look like it, but this was a very good day of waves. (1981)
