Get ready for an exciting evening of Hoagy Carmichael music Saturday, June 8th, at the Culver Academy Legion Building at 7:30 p.m. The evening features hit song renditions by none other than Hoagy’s son, Randy Carmichael. The younger Carmichael has been delighting audiences for decades, keeping his father’s musical legacy alive. The show takes it’s title [...]
Warner Williams: Culver’s Renaissance Man
Posted in AHS News, Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver -- Town of, Culver Academies, Events, Families, Famous People, Libraries -- Public on Feb 22nd, 2013
Ask any long-time Culver citizen about Warner Williams, and you’ll probably hear a description of an eccentric man riding around town on his bicycle, his long beard flying behind him. Others may recall the geodesic dome he constructed in his back yard, out of from which he churned out countless plaster animal sculptures following his [...]
Tenderloins, Bowling, and 50 years of Culver Memories: Dewitt Family’s Quarter-century at Lake Shore Lanes and Beyond
Posted in Bowling Alleys, Buildings, Businesses, Christmas and Christmastime, Culver -- Town of, Restaurants on Nov 29th, 2012
By Jeff Kenney: Citizen editor Not long ago, Jim Dewitt was in the Culver post office when the topic of the beloved tenderloins he served at the Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley between 1953 and 1978 came up. Soon, various folks in line were speaking up in favor of their favorite menu item, and the [...]
Child’s Farm September 2012
Posted in Agriculture and Farming, AHS News, Events on Sep 25th, 2012
A fun time was had by all on Saturday, September 15th when the Antiquarians visited Child’s Farm just north of Culver. There was laughter and friendly competition between the men and women as butter was churned by both parties to see who could make the best looking butter. The discussions still continues on that subject [...]
Manor Market fire, 1985
Posted in Buildings, Events, Fires, Groceries, Lake Maxinkuckee -- East Shore, Maxinkuckee Village (east shore), Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Sep 4th, 2012
On Dec. 28, 1985, the Maxinkuckee Village lost one of the last vestiges of its formerly active business community, the Manor Market at the northeast corner of East Shore Drive and 18B Road, to fire. The market, known in the 1930s as Van’s, changed its name to R & J circa 1947. Apartments were also [...]
Santa Claus in Culver — by fire truck
Posted in Christmas and Christmastime, Culver -- Town of, Events, Fires, Holidays, Nursing homes, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Sep 4th, 2012
At least as far back as the 1950s — if not earlier — Santa Claus helped kick off the Christmas season each December by arriving in town on a Culver fire truck, often greeting children at the annual children’s Christmas party at the station afterwards.
CMA Trunk Room fire, 1918
Posted in Buildings, Buildings and Campus, Chautauqua, Culver Academies, Events, Fires on Aug 19th, 2012
Culver Military Academy’s Trunk Room began its life as theTabernacle for the chautauqua hotel Henry Harrison Culver built at the site of today’s Main Barracks, for the 1889 chautauqua season (famous evangelist T. Dewitt Talmage spoke there). It became the Culver Military Academy gymnasium when the school was started in 1894, and the school’s dining [...]
Gignilliat cottage fire, March, 1918
Posted in Buildings, Culver Academies, Events, Fires, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 19th, 2012
Then known as the Gignilliat cottage — for Culver Military Acaemy superintendent L.R. Gignilliat — and later as the Superintendent’s Home, all but the first floor of this late 19th century structure burned in a March 25, 1918 fire, though there was time to save most of the furniture and belongings from the flames. The [...]
East shore, Lake Maxinkuckee fires
Posted in Events, Families, Fires, Lake Maxinkuckee -- East Shore, Marmon-Greenleaf, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 19th, 2012
ABOVE: In 1941, the garage and tenant residence at the Marmon cottage, at 1100 East Shore Drive on Lake Maxinkuckee, burned to the ground. The structure likely dated to the 1880s, when Daniel and Elizabeth Marmon arrived here and established the cottage, today occupied by the Greenleaf descendants of the Marmons. [...]
Lake Shore Lanes fire, Oct. 21, 1978
Posted in Bowling Alleys, Buildings, Businesses, Culver -- Town of, Events, Fires, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept., Restaurants on Aug 19th, 2012
On Oct. 21, 1978, Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley and the coffee shop accompanying, located at 620 Lake Shore Drive, burned to the ground in a spectacular fire. Dating back to 1953, Jim and Mary Dewitt had owned the bowling alley, which was sold in 1977 to Don and Juliemae Neidlinger. The fire call came [...]