Indiana Dunes Administrative History

1. Indiana Dunes Project Keyman Allen T. Edmunds, Philadelphia Planning and Service Center, to Northeast Regional Director Lemuel A. Garrison, 9 November 1966, folder L58 INDU NL Proposal, 1962-66, (misc. and FY 1973, Expansion Files), Inactive Stored Files, Office of the Superintendent.

2. J. Ronald Engel, Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes (Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1983), pp. 276-7.

3. House of Representatives, 89th Congress, 1st Session, Document No. 78, "Natural Beauty of Our Country," Message from The President of the United States, February 8, 1965, Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, p. 4, book on Indiana Dunes Congressional Hearings in the Office of the Superintendent.

4. The Indiana Dunes Story: How Nature and People Made a Park (Beverly Shores, Indiana: Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, 1984), p. 39.

5. "Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Report together with Minority Views to accompany S. 360," Senate Report 334, 89th Congress, 1st Session, Calendar Number 322, Providing for the Establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, June 16, 1965, pp. 4, 10, book on Indiana Dunes Congressional Hearings in the Office of the Superintendent.

6. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, 89th Congress, 1st Session on H.R. 51, H.R. 4412 and related bills. Hearing Held in Valparaiso University, Indiana, October 2, 1965, pp. 2-3, book on Indiana Dunes Congressional Hearings in the Office of the Superintendent.

7. Ibid., pp. 22-3.

8. Allen T. Edmunds to the files, 19 January 1966, folder L58 INDU NL Proposal, 1962-66, (Misc. and FY 1973, Expansion Files), Inactive stored files, Office of the Superintendent.

9. 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. 2.

10. Ibid., p. 3.

11. Ibid., p. 5.

12. Ibid., p. 12.

13. Ibid., p. 13.

14. Ibid., p. 14.

15. Fritz Kessinger to Chief, Division of Legislation and Regulations, "Confidential," 11 April 1966, folder—L58 Indiana Dunes, P-435859, 4-28-049-7-1, Records of the Northeast Regional Office, Federal Records Center, Philadelphia.

16. House of Representatives Report No. 1782, 89th Congress, 2nd Session, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, July 29, 1966, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Report to accompany H.R. 51, pp. 1-5, book on Indiana Dunes Congressional Hearings in the Office of the Superintendent; Paul H. Douglas, In The Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., 1971), p. 542; and Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 277.

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

18. Douglas, In The Fullness of Time, p. 542, and Engel, Sacred Sands, pp. 277-8.

19. Report together with Dissenting Views to Accompany H.R. 11455, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Report No. 94-818, February 10, 1976, book on Indiana Dunes Congressional Hearings in the Office of the Superintendent.

20. Douglas, In The Fullness of Time, p. 543, and Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 280.

21. Thomas E. Dustin to Allen Edmunds, 14 October 1966, file L58 Indiana Dunes, P-435859, 4-28-049-7-1, Records of the Northeast Regional Office, Federal Records Center, Philadelphia.

22. Douglas, In the Fullness of Time, p. 543, and Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 280.

23. "Statement by the President on Approving S. 360, Establishing the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore," Press Release, Office of the White House Press Secretary, San Antonio, Texas, 5 November 1966, from National Park Service History Collection, Harpers Ferry Center, West Virginia.

24. Allen T. Edmunds, Chief, Office of Resource Planning, Philadelphia Planning and Service Center, to Regional Director, Northeast Region, 24 October 1966, folder L58 INDU NL Proposal, 1962-66, (Misc. and FY 1973, Expansion Files), Inactive stored files, Office of the Superintendent.

25. David Turello, Park Planner and Master Plan Team Captain, to Allen T. Edmunds, Chief, Office of Resource Planning, PPSC, 29 November 1966, file A2623 Indiana Dunes, P-332927, 4-16-033-4-2, box 1, Records of the Northeast Regional Office, Federal Records Center, Philadelphia.

26. Allen T. Edmunds, Chief, Office of Resource Planning, PPSC, to Assistant Director, Cooperative Activities, Northeast Regional Office, 29 November 1966, folder L58 INDU NL Proposal, 1962-66, (Misc. and FY 1973, Expansion Files), Inactive stored files, Office of the Superintendent.

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

28. Herbert P. Read to Merrill Ormes, Vice-President, Save the Dunes Council, 14 November 1966, folder I1425, INDU 10/66 to 12/66, P-422229, 4-16-033-4-2, Records of the Northeast Regional Office, Federal Records Center, Philadelphia.

29. Ibid., Assistant Director Howard W. Baker to Merrill D. Ormes, Vice-President, Save the Dunes Council, letter, 13 December 1966.

30. Ibid., Senator Paul Douglas to Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior, letter, 22 December 1966, folder I1425, Indiana Dunes Correspondence No. 1, 1/67 to 6/67.