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“At the beginning of the season, we'd have to go out in a boat maybe 50 yards to dig a hole in the sand at the bottom, to create a space to drop in and bury the cement anchors for the chained buoys that marked the end of the swimming area - we could not guard all the way out to Muskegon, right? So, we'd have to jump in the lake with a shovel, plunge down ten or more feet, and dig as furiously as possible before screaming back up to hand up the shovel and haul yourself back into the boat, chattering hard enough to break your teeth, while the next guy went in. One year when we did this, on a day in the first week of June, the surface temperature measured by the shore where we'd toss in the thermometer was 48 degrees.” - Dan Haig

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“We didn’t have much then, but we had the lake.”

“I watched swimmers from a beach chair, in the sun, all day.”

“I walk the bluff most evenings with my dog. I can’t tell you how many times we have been caught - sun shining one minute and dark sky the next. When the beach house is renovated, it will bother for eveyone. A place to shelter in this crazy WI weather.”

“My mother would pack sandwiches and we would run down the bluff ahead of her. You could hear the lake before you saw it.”

“Sand. Sand in everything. Sunburned and freckles. Happiest memories of Doctors Park.”

“We are both from here but hadn’t met until much later. As we walked down the staircase, we put two and two together.”

“Each spring I go to Doctors Park to watch the first birds heading north. There’s nothing quite like seeing Baltimore orioles flash through the ravine.” M. Daly

“I have heard that boys tried to peak into the girls’ changing area and showers in the Beach House by climbing the bluff high enough to look over. I imagine what they saw was only in their dreams.” M.Daly