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Maurice P. Avery: Memoirs Stories of Ogden Dunes    (June 2014) Published in “The Hour Glass” Newsletter, August 2014   As I recently turned 104, I thought that this might good time to reminisce about my 44 years of living in Ogden Dunes.   My first exposure to Ogden Dunes was in the fall of 1925 when I was a junior in high school.  Our Sunday school class of City Methodist Church in Gary had a hotdog cookout at what I later came to know as Kratz’s beach.  Seven of us were passengers in a Grant [...]

Dorothy Richardson Buell: Our Neighbor and Crusader for the Indiana Dunes   Writer and Narrator: Joan Costanza Meister Readers:  Judith Stiles, John Stiles, John Wilhelm, Mary Jo Wilhelm   This Dramatic Reading on the Life of Dorothy Buell was written and narrated by Joan Costanza Meister and presented on Sunday, Memorial Day Week-end in 2016.  It was sponsored by the Historical Society and held in the Ogden Dunes Community Church’s Fellowship Hall.  A slide show accompanied the Reading.       Narrator (Joan): In 1940 Ogden Dunes was a close-knit lakeside community of 144 full-time residents with [...]

The Cash Family in Ogden Dunes (without photos) by Dick Meister (revised 28 Feb 2013) Few families have had as much of an impact on the development of Ogden Dunes as the family of Lester and Dess Mitchell Cash.  Lester, also known as A. L., was born in Marion, Illinois on November 8, 1886.  He died in Florida on March 27, 1966.  Dess Mitchell was also born in Marion, eleven months later, on October 21, 1887.   She died at 95 in April 1983. The year 1925 is an important one in the history of Ogden [...]

The Cash Family of Ogden Dunes   Part II:  Excerpts from the Autobiography of Mitchell Cash (for his children and grandchildren) Introduction: Laura Cash Mitchell, the daughter of Mitchell Cash, provided the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes with two chapters of her father’s autobiography, as well as a number of family photos.  In his autobiography, Mitchell relates his life around a set of key decisions.  These chapters/decisions deal with two periods of his life that were spent in Ogden Dunes, the decision of his parents to buy a cottage in Ogden Dunes around 1925 and he [...]

Voices of Ogden Dunes: The Early Years (performed 2013) Script writer and narrator:  Dick Meister Video: John Paunicka, Ken Martin and Dick Meister Performed: August 26, 2013 at the Community Church in Ogden Dunes Voices:  Judith Stiles, Jenifer K. Wilson, Ken Martin, John Stiles, Susan Clouser, Aurelia Costanza, and Rick Collins in order of first appearance. We begin today’s program with two voices from the period prior to the founding of Ogden Dunes in 1925:  one is an artifact; the other a legend. An early description of our most famous artifact: [Judith Stiles] Perhaps boats [...]

The Newman Family: A Double Coincidence by Aurelia Duralski Costanza In May of 2008 our daughter, Madeleine, moved with her family, husband Andrew, daughter Sophia and son Thomas Henry to Vancouver, Canada.  Joe and I were invited to visit.  As an outing on a warm spring day, we visited Lighthouse Park, with its old growth pine forest.  Entering the park we chanced a meeting with a dapper elderly gentleman, looking as if he stepped out of the L. L. Bean catalogue.  We introduced ourselves and he responded that he was Murray Newman, retired director of [...]