By Claire Kurnick ~ FPS Intern 2019 Since the age of five I have joined my family for the packed car ride north from suburban Detroit to enjoy the bliss and peace of summers in Leland. After my parents divorce, my mother wanted to leave Bloomfield Hills and move north, but it wasn’t until she […]
Fishtown Preservation completed the Fishtown mortgage on February 7, 2019! In celebration, we declared February 7–16, 2019 ~ Love Fishtown Week! The shanty rooftops were relit* with the addition of a big red heart from February 7 through February 16. On Thursday, February 14, 2019, we celebrated this important milestone in Fishtown. We offered tributes, […]
Fishtown volunteer, singer-songwriter Steve Lindo surprised us by writing a song about Fishtown, and created and shared his video: Click here to watch video!
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
Long awaited, much anticipated, urgently needed: That’s the best way to describe the rehabilitation project that’s been going on in Fishtown throughout this punishing winter.
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 Fishtown Festival, part of the 2012 Leland Heritage Celebration, was a wonderful day! Thanks to all of this year’s visitors, supporters, partner organizations, volunteers and sponsors. We hope you had a great time (including enjoying a bowl of whitefish chowder!), while helping to preserve Fishtown. For photos and highlights, see below. Don’t forget to […]
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.
