Thanks to everyone that came out to support Fishtown Preservation—as a racer, volunteer, sponsor or cheerleader. All that are involved make this event a huge success in helping to preserve Fishtown. In celebration of our 10th Annual Fishtown 5K, we declared 2018 the “Year of the Tug.” We had two tug costume workshops before […]
Friends of Fishtown 5K on Saturday, July 22 – works with timing company Endurance Evolution of Traverse City to provide live tracking – which means instantaneous results! Pick-up race packets on Friday, July 21 from 2-4pm, including bib numbers available for runners who registered online. After the race, live tracking, and results can be found here and on the FPS Facebook […]
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It was late November 2015, and Joy was heading inland for the latest round of maintenance and improvements Fishtown Preservation has undertaken over the past ten years
My name is Grace. This blog will provide a perspective of Fishtown you might not have encountered: the perspective of an outsider.
As visitors, we don’t often notice the finer details of a working community. We see painters, boaters, fishermen and shop owners, day after day, but we assume they’re here because the place is beautiful and one of a kind. We forget that they’re also working. Whether they’re selling paintings, smoking whitefish sausage or scooping ice cream, many of them have five months to earn enough money to support their families for an entire year. In the summer Fishtown swells with families and friends on vacation, but it is also full of families and friends working to preserve Fishtown for visitors, year after year.
We asked you to share what Fishtown looks like through your eyes, and more than 50 of you sent us nearly 200 images of your Fishtown. This video is what Fishtown looks like, through all of our eyes.
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.
The next time you are in Fishtown look for one of Fishtown Preservation’s new self-guided walking tours. The tours will be available year round at the Wayfinding Station in front of the small smokehouse
Painting Fishtown has long been a Leland tradition, thanks to the long history of the Old Art Building.
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.
