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Items donated by Demerest family to enhance Saugatuck's Historic Demerest Shanty

Object/Artifact
An inventory of the gill net, round nets, net boxes, fish boxes, floats, weights, buoys, twine, rain slicker jacket and bibs, net needles, scale and even Miss February 1960 donated by the Demerest family to bring the shanty to life.
Shanty front facade, May 2021; Metal net tubs and bucket from Demerest family
Wooden box filled with aluminum net floats Wood, plastic and metal floats for gill nets and trawl nets Complete gill net carefully packed in gray wooden next box, a collection of net needles, lead weights, safety glasses, net twine and DEM template. Complete gill net with floats (at left) and weights (at right) Photo of the Bonnie (over door), yellow rain slicker and bibs, chub smoking stick and scale Fish scale, wooden fish box, rope and chain Metal tub, anchor, black and beige hoop nets (under windows) Items donated by Demerest family to enhance Saugatuck's Historic Demerest Shanty picture number 9 net weights Hand net to dip bait fish out of a tank anchor Miss February 1960 recovered from Shanty walls during restoration Frame color photo titled Cover of Inkwell jar with four red model buoys. Two buoys have been moved to the SDHC archive to be kept with the net reel model, 2021.06.08. (Aug. 2021) white metal gill net buoy base Collection of Demmy's very sharp knives; Also a handled sharpening stone and fish scaler wooden objects thought to be hook line floats

2021.06.09

1845 Fishing, commercial

Winthers, Sally

2021.06

Demerest, David 1953-Hebert, MarilynDemerest, Marvin Eugene "Demmy" 1928-2020

Donation

Saugatuck's Historic Demerest Shanty

Demerest, Marvin Eugene "Demmy" 1928-2020Demerest Fishing Shanty

06/04/2021

11/18/2023