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What have you seen? Heard? What is your favorite thing about Kleinstuck? A special place? A particular time of year?



This website has an ABUNDANCE of great information. And imagine, all of it is done by volunteers. Generosity and talent without financial compensation are still alive in the world ![]()

My favorite spot in Kleinstuck is Mr. Fun's House (what's left of it). Years ago, in the 1970's the YMCA operated a summer day camp - Camp A-HomeA - in the preserve. Our son Sam attended it, and learned to play "capture the flag" there. He also learned the apocryphal story about Mr. Fun, the mysterious person who inhabited the preserve and supposedly lived in an old caboose that had been moved onto the property many years before. In the 1970's and '80's the caboose was still visible, though overgrown with weeds and underbrush. Now all that remains is a few iron straps. It's hard to find. It's at the location marked "foundation" on the east side of the property map. Although Sam and his friends never laid on Mr. Fun, it was fun to believe the story. I think so too.
Does anyone know how the caboose got there, and when?
- Jack Urban

Thanks Jim, the library is having a seminar hosted by One place next week and Jacquelyn and myself are planning on attending for Kleinstuck.
Bob

The Kalamazoo Public Library has a new department designed to help nonprofit organzations. It's called "ONE place @ kpl". ONE stands for Opportunities for Nonprofit Excellence. I know the staff person Bobbe Luce. She might be able to assist you on your goal of becoming a non profit.