Indiana Dunes Administrative History

1. Donald Janson, "Kennedy Stand Spurs Indiana Dunes Group," New York Times (11 March 1962), Scrapbook of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore compiled by Dr. Virginia Reuterskiold, Superintendent's Office.

2. Great Lakes Harbors Study: Interim Report on Burns Waterway Harbor, U.S. Army Engineers District, Chicago, Corps of Engineers, October 1960, Associate Director E. T. Scoyen to Col. C. F. Mitchim, Chicago District Engineer, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, letter, 20 January 1960, appendix H, pp. H 1-2.

3. Ibid., preface, p. vi; and Harold M. Meyer, "Politics and Land Use: The Indiana Shoreline of Lake Michigan," reprinted from Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 54, No. 4, (December 1964), p. 513, received from John Schnurlein, letter to author, 22 February 1988, Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office.

4. Clinton Green to Governor—Elect Matthew E. Welsh, 22 November 1960, and clipping, "Sen. Douglas Blocks Reports on Dunes Port," Chicago Sunday Tribune (1920 November 1960), Papers of Governor Matthew E. Welsh, Box 22, Folder 3: Indiana Dunes, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

5. Herbert Read, Engineering Chairman, Save the Dunes Council, Inc., interview transcript, 22 September 1987, Bailly Ranger Station, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter, Indiana.

6. Herbert Read to Ron Cockrell, archival records received 23 Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office: District Office, Corps of Engineers' 8 November 1930 report on Harbor, Indiana. March 1988, Second Chicago Burns Ditch Harbor, Indiana.

7. Ibid.: Review Report on Burns Ditch Harbor, Indiana, 29 November 1935.

8. Ibid.: C. Keller, Colonel, Corps of Engineers District Engineer Preliminary Examination of the Indiana Shore of Lake Michigan, (1928 January 1943.

9. "The Vanishing Havens of Beauty," Life (29 August 1960), pp. 79-85, Scrapbook of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore compiled by Dr. Virginia Reuterskiold, Superintendent's Office.

10. Acting Director E. T. Scoyen to Legislative Counsel, Office of the Solicitor, 6 June 1961, folder—W3815 Indiana Dunes, Files of the Northeast Regional Office, 4-28-035-3-3, P-373677, box 16, Philadelphia Federal Records Center; and J. Ronald Engel, Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1983, p. 366n.

11. Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 265.

12. News release on the July 23 tour of Indiana Dunes with Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall, Office of Senator Paul H. Douglas, 24 August 1961, Scrapbook of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore compiled by Dr. Virginia Reuterskiold, Superintendent's Office.

13. Conrad Louis Wirth, Parks, Politics, and the People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), pp. 198-9.

14. Clinton Green, Secretary—Treasurer, Indiana Port Commission, "A Memorandum to Interested Citizens," 16 February 1962, Governor Matthew E. Welsh Papers, Folder 3 Indiana Dunes, Box 22, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

15. Herbert Read, Chairman, Engineering Committee, Save the Dunes Council, to Ron Cockrell, letter, 7 April 1988, Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office.

16. Secretary Stewart L. Udall to Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, letters, 23 February 1962, and to Representative Wayne Aspinall, Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 3 March 1962, 4-28-035-3-3, P-373677, box 16, Records of the Northeast Regional Office, Philadelphia Federal Records Center; and Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 269.

17. "Greatest Decade in Conservation History Predicted by Udall," United States Department of the Interior news release, Office of the Secretary, 9 March 1962, file—K3415 Pines. Kennedy's Message Mr. Udall's Press Release on Conservation, 4-28-035-3-3, P-373669, box 8, Records of the Northeast Regional Office, Philadelphia Federal Records Center.

18. Kay Franklin and Norma Schaeffer, Duel for the Dunes: Land Use Conflict on the Shores of Lake Michigan (Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1983), p. 162.

19. Engel, Sacred Sands, pp. 270, 275.

20. Donald Janson, "Kennedy Stand Spurs Indiana Dunes Group," New York Times (11 March 1962), Scrapbook of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore compiled by Dr. Virginia Reuterskiold, Superintendent's Office.

21. Engle, Sacred Sands, p. 275; Paul H. Douglas, In The Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., 1971), p. 540; and Kay Franklin and Norma Schaeffer, Duel for the Dunes: Land Use Conflict on the Shores of Lake Michigan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), pp. 163-4.

22. Herbert Read to Ron Cockrell, letter, 26 March 1988, Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office.

23. Indiana Dunes, A Department of the Interior National Lakeshore Proposal, 1966 (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1966), p. 1.

24. Acting Director Hillory A. Tolson to Legislative Counsel, Office of the Solicitor, 22 April 1963, folder—W3815 Indiana Dunes, Files of the Northeast Regional Office, 4-28-035-3-3, P-373677, box 16, Philadelphia Federal Records Center.

25. Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, p. 540.

26. Herbert Read to Ron Cockrell, letter, 26 March 1988, Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office.

27. A Report on the Proposed Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior: August 1963), Visitor Center Library, File Drawer No. 1.

28. Herbert Read to Ron Cockrell, letter, 26 March 1988, Cultural Resources Management files, Midwest Regional Office; and Herbert Read, Engineering Chairman, Save the Dunes Council, Inc., interview transcript, 22 September 1987, Bailly Ranger Station, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter, Indiana.

29. A Report on the Proposed Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 1963; Engel, Sacred Sands, pp. 275-6; Assistant Secretary of the Interior John A. Conner, Jr., to President of the Senate Lyndon B. Johnson, 18 October 1963, folder—W3815 Indiana Dunes, Files of the Northeast Regional Office, 4-28-035-3-3, P-373677, box 16, Philadelphia Federal Records Center (A similar letter was sent to Speaker of the House of Representatives John W. McCormack); and Herbert Read, Engineering Chairman, Save the Dunes Council, Inc., interview transcript, 22 September 1987, Bailly Ranger Station, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter, Indiana.

30. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, U.S. Senate, Eighty-Eighth Congress, 2nd Session on S. 2249, "A Bill to Provide for the Establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and For Other Purposes," March 5, 6, and 7, 1964 (Washington, D.C.: 21-22. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964), pp. 11-13, 17-19,

31. Ibid., p. 26.

32. Ibid., pp. 29.

33. Ibid., p. 27-8.

34. Ibid., pp. 114-5.

35. Ibid., p. 251.

36. Ibid., pp. 35-8.

37. Ibid., pp. 85, 87.

38. Ibid., pp. 47, 49.

39. Ibid., pp. 51-2.

40. Ibid., pp. 52-3.

41. Ibid., pp. 123-4.

42. Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 276.