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Memories of Tulip time in Holland, Mich.

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By KEVIN COUNIHAN ! tivities come to a
Contrary to popular belief, Hol- sort, and features
land and -tulips are not only performances ofc
found across the Great Atlantic. marching bands.1
Michigan, the land of two pen- Saturday afternoon
insulas, three auto companies hottest days on rec
and other such madness, has its are always some
own version of the Lowlands, high school musici
complete with windmills. Locat- out with their tru
ed on the western shore of Lake line of duty. The
Michigan, just southwest of uents are also out
Grand Rapids, Holland was set- on Saturday and ta
tied in 1847 by Dutch settlers in sure in runningt
search of religious seclusion. street and stuffing
They brought with them many of into the bell of a s
the customs and practices of the tripping the drum
Netherlands, many of w h i c h
have long since vanished.
To maintain their justly rich;
heritage, as well as to balanceI
the city budget, the city fathers
decided many years ago to es-
tablish an annual festival of
commemoration and celebration.I
The chosen symbol for this af-
fair became the tulip and the
pageant was thus named Tulip
Timte.
I have lived in Holland for all
but two of my twenty-one years
and have naturally experienced
many Tulip Times.
Not being of Dutch heritage,
I was generally unaffected by C
the more somber aspects of the
rtual, btIcan nonethels of
fer "to the prospective traveler
the insight of an honorary Dutch-
My first memory of the Time
for the Tulip was as a .very~
young chap siting in a colorful
bed of the sacred flowercposing
for pictures in my little Dutch
costume. It should be noted that
I was not doing this out of love RENTING:
of the sun or vanity, but for Canoes
money, hard cash. Young BowBoa
squirts are generally considerd Booaes
to be quite cute by most every-,a Paddles
body, especially tourists, and of- Car Top
ten a-persistent wife would force Life Ves
her husband to hand over a' FishingF
buck "to the little Dutch kid".T I
Soon, I was evaluating the suc- THIRL
cess of the festival not by the NOW 4
weather but how profitable it
had been to those of us in the PARKI
flower beds. PER C1
Having grown disillusioned
with materialism at the age of
fifteen, I gave up the picture Com
circuit for the less lucrative but
more artistic endeavor of play-,
ing the'French horn in the Jun-
ior High School band. This turn-
ed out to be a foolish move as,
I soon found myself sweating it
out with my musical cohorts in
long and boring parades, play-L
ing banal march music, and oc- LONG
casionally catching a half-eaten
taffy aple in the face from an
irate music lover. For Mor
The long, Saturday afternoon'
parade was, the worst. The Fes--

climax, of a
the stellar
one hundred
Without fail,
is one f the
ord and there'
unfortunate
ans who pass
mpet, in the
local Ielinq-
in full force
ke great plea-
out into the
cotton candy
ousaphone or
major.

In high school, I graduated in-
to more clever ways of apprec-
iating Tupil Time. My home is
on a street that mysteriously
transforms into part of 'Thilp
Lane".During the celebration the
City saw fIt to plant tulips on
both sides of a five-mile stretch
of pavement and it has ecome
a great favorite for the multi-
tudinous busloads of visitors who
sometimes ask if we Hollanders
wear wooden shoes all the time.
The City considers these Tulip
Lane tulips to be icons and im-
posed a $500 fine for the de-'

struction of each flower. Some
of my friends after the encour-
agement of a little fire water
would cruise down Tulip L a n e
and casually open their car door
to mow down whole blocks of
these tulips.
Not to be outdone by such van-
dals, the illustrious Holland po-
lice force planted green, metal
stakes with a large barb at the
top within the rows of tu ips.
Sure enough, the next year these
drunken maniacs went to "get
the tulips", their car doors were
greeted by these obstacles to

clean fun, and it is rumored by!

those
sport;

who know that one yaung
actually had his car door

removed by one such weapon.
Now in my later years, I have
the distance with which to re-
flect on my activities in Ttlip
Time and have determined that!
none of them was worth it. I-ol-
land will always remain a spirit-,
-ual home of a type but I shall
be content to leave the pag-
entry for those who truly ap-I
preciate it.

Wowuld
you
you?
Of course you would.
You work hard. And you're good
at it. Like most Americans.
But, if all of us did just a
little better, we'd wind
Up with better products, better
services and even more
pride in the work we do.
America. It only works
as well as we do.
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thru September 22, via Al -Date Aircraft Date Aircraft City Europe Pro- Rate Before
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d1 endC-aJune 18 DC-10 July 16 DC-10 DETROIT 27 $319 April 19
JET (depending on date July 16 DC- Aug. 05 DC-0 DETROIT 19 $309 May 17
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Sept.06 DC8- Sept. 22 DC-10 DETROIT/CLEVELAND 15 $299 July 08
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The minimum deposit required by Elkin Tours, Inc, is $80.00 per person (which 'is at least 25% of the minimum pro-rata charter prices are required by TGC Regulations).
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T AIR WAYS DC-8 July 06, 13, 20, 27 Frankfurt 3 weeks $71.09 $329.00 $394.80
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Metro, via BRITISH CALEDO- Aug. 13, 1976 4 weeks $329 $394.80 76 00
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transportation for infants under Aug. 06. 1976 Aug. 20, 1976 2 weeks $309 $37080 June 02, 1976 56.00
two years of age at time of travel; Aug. 27, 1976 3 weeks $319 $382.80 6600
free baggage allowance of 66 Sept. 03. 1976 4 weeks $329 $394 80 76.00
lbs. per person; stereo systems; Aug 13. 1976 Aug. 27, 1976 2 weeks $309 $370.80 June 09. 1976 56.00
your choice of complimentary Sept. 03, 1976 3 weeks $319 $382.80 66.00
quart of liquor upon departure Sept. 10, 1976 4 weeks $329 $394.80 76.00
from Detroit for passengers at6,.0
least 18 years of age at time of Aug. 20. 1976 Sept. 03, 1976 2 weeks $299 $35880 June 16. 1916 6.0.00
travel. Sept. 10, 1976 3 weeks $309 $370.80 70.00
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person. Maximum pro-rata charter pricesSet 17196 3wks$8$4.0
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maximum pro-rata charter prices. Sept. 17, 1976 Oct. 01. 1976 2 weeks $269 $322.80 July 14, 1976 52.50
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