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Don’t Change Anything

December 19, 2012 / Amanda Holmes / Featured, History, News
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Don’t change anything. Many people—maybe most—thought that was our mission when the Fishtown Preservation Society (FPS) purchased the core historic part of Fishtown in February 2007.

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Fishtown, A Whole World

July 5, 2012 / Amanda Holmes / Featured, History
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Unknown fishermen in Fishtown, ca. 1920.

Several years ago longtime Fishtown fisherman Alan Priest said, “That’s my home down there. It means the whole world to me. It’s not just a place—that’s my whole world.” For more people than we can know that is what Fishtown is: More than a place. A whole world.

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A Special Connection

March 13, 2012 / Amanda Holmes / History, News
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Tara with her father, Kenneth "Chopper" Novak

Tara Novak, Fishtown Preservation’s first intern, came to Fishtown for the first time almost twenty years ago. Her father brought her here, and it helped them form “a special connection.”

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When Pentwater Had a Fishtown

May 6, 2011 / Amanda Holmes / Fishermen and Families, Fishing, History
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We’re back with more photos of moments and faces from Pentwater’s commercial fishing world. You won’t find any trace of this fishing life along Pentwater’s shores today. That’s why we preserve Fishtown: it’s both a place and a way of life.

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The Last Fisherman

April 29, 2011 / Amanda Holmes / Fishermen and Families, History
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Bud Stenberg defines himself by his family, his service with the Marines, and his life as a commercial fisherman. He is Pentwater’s last fisherman, and this week he came to visit us in Fishtown, where he can still experience the fishing life.

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Preserving Fishtown, Ten by Ten

November 15, 2010 / Amanda Holmes / Fishing, History
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trap net anchors

Fishtown Anchors are to the Preservation Society what the anchors are to Fishtown?s fishermen?anchors keep us grounded, and they keep us working.

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“I just wanted to help Fishtown”

November 2, 2010 / Amanda Holmes / News
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Carl showed up at the Fishtown office and presented us with $33.29. If that number sounds modest, it

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