![]() ![]() Where hearts grow closer, Dunewood for aye." Where good friends gather, where children play White birch and tall pine, white-crested wavesīlue sky and sunshine, bright golden days Where legends haunts us, ghosts of the pastīringing us close to friends who will last This time the song was titled “Dunewood Song:”Ĭovered with forests ‘neath shadowed moons In 1958, Dunewood residents Walt and Betty Draper recruited their friend singer, actor and Broadway star Ray Middleton to write and record another song about Dunewood. “A beach fire and program honored the anniversary of the founding of the resort colony in 1913.” “The 50th anniversary of the establishment of Dunewood on what is now Dunewood or Lakeshore Road on Lake Michigan between Manistee and Onekama was celebrated Saturday night by cottages there, many of whom are descendants of the original group of faculty members from the University of Illinois. The same Augarticle published in the Manistee News Advocate provides a brief description: ![]() By 1963, the resort area celebrated its 50th anniversary with numerous members of the founding families in attendance. We've a long way to wander before we partįor we must tread by the light of your eyesĪs the years passed more cottages were constructed in Dunewood many of which were kept in the same family for many years. "Come walk in Dunewood tonight sweetheart Shine on above me sweet evening star and tell her I wait where the wild roses areįor the step in the leaves like the soft summer rainĪnd the clasp of her hands when our hearts meet again" O seize on joy so brief so bright like lightning in the summer night "Now, now, now while the light of loves own star is high "I hear o Dunewood the flight of wings go rushing by like frightened thingsĪnd through the darkness they go crying o fly with us for time is flying" The song, with words by Stuart Sherman and music by Stuart Sherman and Ethel Scott, was called “Dunewood Serenade” and was written on July 13, 1914: Later Dunewood Road was built and was renamed Lakeshore Road in recent years.”Ī year after establishing the resort area, two residents of Dunewood put pen to paper and wrote a song describing the natural beauty of their summer surroundings. “Access to the cottages was by an old road through his farm. “In the early days of the settlement the cottagers arrived each summer by boat, on the Missouri, Illinois or Puritan, landing at either Onekama or Manistee and were met by Claus Stone who had a farm near their cottages. Edwin Draper of Urbana, Ill., a son of a former president of the university, professor Stuart Sherman, Carl Stephens, who was secretary of the Illinois Alumni Association and Adam Strohm, librarian of the Detroit Library and others.” “During the next year or two (1914-1915) other cottages were built by Dean Evarts Green of Liberal Arts and Science at the University of Illinois, Dr. 26, 1963 celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dunewood, provides details on the first years of the resort area: That spring and summer, Scott, along with two other professors constructed the first three cottages in the area they christened, Dunewood.Īn article published in the Manistee News Advocate on Aug. ![]()
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