photograph
Catalog Number
2020.13.9Description
Black and white photograph showing a boat docked in Macatawa Park, on Lake Macatawa. Note from donor: Ken Cartier, owned and operated a WWI vintage 72 foot sub chaser. Built for WWI but never put in service until after the war. The sub chaser was the forerunner for the PT boats. Crew included: Ken Cartier as the Captain, Ron Rosie, Bill Tazelaar and Steve Bos.History
Items in accession 2020.13 focus on the history of Macatawa Park (in Park Township, a few miles southwest of Holland, MI) . They are from the collection of Art Tazelaar, gathered over the course of his lifetime. Art was born in Grand Rapids, MI in 1913 to John J. Tazelaar (1868–1957) and Gertrude C Lopperson (1880–1961).The US Census shows that the Tazelaar family had moved to Macatawa Park by 1920. By 1940 (US Census), Art had begun working as the postmaster here, a position he held up to 1980. He also worked at a hardware store in Macatawa Park.
Art married Janet Virginia Wierda on 4-15-1941 in Grand Rapids, MI.