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By Stephanie SokolFor MediaNews Group

For 29 years, Anton ArtCenter has been putting onits ArtParty to raise fundsfor education, communityactivities and exhibits. It’sa celebration, and impor-tant for the center’s con-tinuing existence.

“As a nonprofit organi-zation, this fundraiser iscritical to helping ensurewe have enough fundingto run some of our favor-ite programs,” says AntonArt Center Director PhilGilchrist.

This year celebrating 50years in operation, whilebeing closed to the pub-lic because of the corona-virus pandemic, the centerin Mount Clemens has rei-magined the annual showdigitally as ArtParty @Home.

Starting with a virtualkickoff on Thursday, Aug.13 — unlike the one-nightbenefit of the past — pa-trons can view art and par-ticipate for six weeks on-line through Sept. 24. Inswitching to an online set-ting versus a ticketed eventlimited to 500 guests, Gil-christ says the Centerhopes to reach more peo-ple with ArtParty @ Home.

After seeing the successof its worldwide virtualart competition in spring,which drew more than1,500 entries, as well asthe virtual Super SatART-day@Home program lastmonth, the center took “afew pages from their ownbook,” Gilchrist says.

“ Web -based equa lsworld-accessed,” saysAnna Doe, co-chairwomanfor Anton Center. “A re-cent online art exhibit at-tracted entries worldwide,a real first. We tried, andthe public responded. TheCenter is serving a localcommunity, but virtual ac-cess allows for art withoutborders. In other words, weare truly coloring outsidethe lines.”

The board and staffworked together to figureout how to overcome chal-lenges to hosting their an-nual benefit, includingmodifying the format andkeeping consistency withprevious in-person Art-Party events, Gilchrist

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By Darcell BrownFor MediaNews Group

Marney Rich Keenan is apower to be reckoned with.Born in Chicago and raisedin Detroit, she knows how toget things done. Armed witha BA in English from Oak-land University, she set outinto the world to bring peo-ple innovative stories and— most importantly — thetruth.

An award-winning re-porter, she wrote for the re-spected Chicago Tribuneand The Detroit News. Dur-ing 26 years of writing fea-tures and a twice-weekly life-style column, many interest-ing stories crossed her desk.One of her favorites, one thathad a lasting impression onher, was a four-part seriescalled “Saying Goodbye,”in which she chronicled thelast six months in the life of

a 42-year-old mother of threeand wife of a Detroit fire-fighter.

“If death can be beauti-ful, Maureen’s certainly was.

I learned les-sons that Icarry to thisday,” saysK e e n a n ,who lives inBloomfieldHills.

If deathcan be beau-tiful, it also

can be tragic, as demon-strated in her book, “TheSnow Killings: Inside the

Oakland County Child KillerInvestigation,” published inJune by Exposit Books. Itchronicles events over 13months in 1976-1977, whenfour children — two boysand two girls ages 10-12 —were abducted from the De-troit suburbs, held for days,then killed and dumped inthe snow near public road-sides.

“The families of the fourvictims, if not the entirecommunity, had been de-ceived by a cover-up and anunderground, largely hid-den child pedophile andpornography ring,” Keenan

says. These killings pan-icked parents and children,triggering one of the mostextensive manhunts in U.S.history. Yet, in less than twoyears the case “went cold,”and the task force created tofind the killer was disbandedwith no suspect ever named.

The lead detective on thecase was Detroit police Sgt.Cory Williams. He workedon the case 14 years, and re-tired in December 2019. Wil-liams is still seeking justiceand currently serves as aconsultant on the case.

The case remained cold

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By Gary Graffggraff@medianewsgroup.com@GraffonMusic on Twitter

Ben Blackwell feels thatthe Stooges’ new “Liveat Goose Lake: August

8th, 1970” album marks “a niceturning point” in the history ofThird Man Records.

The archival set, document-ing the final performance by theiconic Ann Arbor rock group’soriginal lineup, came out Fri-day, Aug. 7, coinciding with the50th anniversary of the GooseLake International Music Festi-val in Michigan’s Leoni Town-ship, near Jackson. But ratherthan the digging and sonic spe-lunking that Blackwell and oth-ers at Third Man have done toacquire other vintage record-ings and even entire record la-bel catalogs, the Stooges tapelanded in the company’s lap af-ter being discovered in a box inWyoming, Mich.

“This was the first time of,‘Oh ... our reputation did thework here.’ Someone foundsomething and they brought itto us. That makes you feel reallygood,” the Detroit-born Black-well, who co-owns Third Manwith his uncle, Jack White, andBen Swank, says by phone fromNashville, Tenn., where the com-pany is based.

“It’s another notch in our rep-utation.”

The late sound engineerJames Cassily recorded theStooges’ seven-song set — itsentire “Fun House” album —among other performances byChicago, James Gang, Mountainand more, at Goose Lake. Thebox of tapes wound up at theRogers Mansion in Wyoming,which belonged to his family. It

was discovered by Joshua Rog-ers as items were being clearedout of the house.

“Through kind of friends offriends (Rogers) reached outto Third Man,” Blackwell re-calls. “The idea was, ‘Hey, youguys do really amazing archi-val work. You’ve worked withIggy previously. I don’t evenknow if there’s music on thesetapes. You want to find out to-gether?’” Third Man had workedwith Stooges frontman Iggy Popon his book, “Total Chaos: TheStory of the Stooges,” and vinyleditions of the Stooges’ 1969 de-but album.

Blackwell, a Stooges devotee,did not hesitate to say yes.

“If I were given the Godlikepower to pick any show fromthe Stooges’ entire career, GooseLake would’ve been the one I’dwant to hear, because it’s soshrouded in mystery and talked

about for decades,” he says.One legend surrounding the

gig was that bassist Dave Alex-ander, presumably affected bysubstances he’d ingested, didnot play and/or played poorly —which led to him being fired af-terwards, plunging the Stoogesinto a dark period of hiatus bro-ken by 1973’s “Raw Power” al-bum. Pop acknowledges byemail that “Dave took somethingthat night that totally blew himdown before the show” and thatthe bassist’s performance was amixed bag. “Sometimes he wasthere, sometimes he wasn’t. Myoverwhelming memory for yearshas been of standing there withno backup. When he missed hiscues, I turned around severaltimes to look and try to catchhis attention and, in those mo-ments, he wasn’t playing any-thing, and he wasn’t reachable.”

Of the decision to fire Alex-

ander, Pop adds that, “Therehad been issues between my-self and Dave before this night,and I’d had enough and I saidso. I would do exactly the samething now.”

Blackwell, meanwhile, feelsthat the “Live at Goose Lake”release finally sets the recordstraight.

“Dave’s there,” Blackwellnotes. “Dave’s on every song. Hestarts off particularly rough on‘Loose’ (the set’s first song), butfrom there I feel like he holdshis own. I don’t feel like there’sanything really egregious fromthat point on — and not that badcompared to how bad a Stoogesset could go.

“As a Stooges fan, in mymind, this changes everything.This Rock and Roll Hall of Fameband’s narrative has been dra-matically changed from just onetape.”

The Goose Lake tape, Black-well adds, was in “solid” shape,especially compared to oth-ers in Cassily’s box, which hesays were considerably weaker.Nashville engineer Vance Pow-ell worked some sonic magic onthe source material, which wasfinished off at Third Man Mas-tering in Detroit, where the vi-nyl LPs were pressed. “What westarted with was by no meansbad,” Blackwell says, “but fromwhat we started with to whatwe ended up with, it’s prettyremarkable. I almost feel likeI need to do a before and aftertest to show people how good itsounds.”

Blackwell is also pleased that“Live at Goose Lake” presentsthe Stooges’ entire set, includ-ing festival organizers’ attemptto bum-rush the band off thestage partway through, but, ac-cording to Pop, “were physicallyprevented from doing so by our

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The Stooges’ new “Live at Goose Lake” album comes from the finalperformance of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group’s original lineup.

Historic Stooges livealbum is a freshtriumph for ThirdMan Records

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Iggy Pop performs onstage at the Goose Lake International Music Festival in August 1970.

Bloomfield Hills reporter’s bookshines light on 1970s cold case

Rich KeenanEXPOSIT BOOKS

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says.Transitioning from

physical happenings toonline access has pre-sented a challenge fornonprofit organizationsworldwide, and Gilchristsays Anton Art Centerrecognized it needed “ona longer timeline,” mak-ing “content freely acces-sible.”

“Once we determinedour format, trying to

bring in those familiarelements — restaurants,music, art demonstra-tions, our silent auction— became the focus,” Gil-christ says.

“We’re highlightingthese elements primar-ily in video and photoformats across our var-ious social media plat-forms and on our websitethrough cooking dem-onstrations and sharingspecial recipes, art dem-onstrations with some ofour longtime artists andinstructors, and more.”

Supporters will have

access to photos of art-works and video content,as well as live Zoom con-ference activities.

There also will be anopportunity to bid on avariety of works by An-ton Art Market artistsin an online silent auc-tion, as well as pieces bylarger artists, including“prints by Salvador Daliand Ian Hornak, an oilpainting by Cass Corri-dor legend Nancy Mitch-nick, and even a pastelby late artist AugustGloss.”

“Funds raised will help

the Anton Art Center es-tablish its virtual pro-gramming more solidlyas we move forward,” Gil-christ says. “It is prettyclear that we can no lon-ger rely on our physicalfacility alone for all ofour program provision,and establishing a stronglineup of online classesand workshops, further-ing our work in online ex-hibits, and continuing todevelop new virtual con-tent as complements toour in-person program-ming is at the top of ourpriority list.”

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for more than 30 years un-til one of the victims’ fam-ily members pointed to theson of a wealthy General Mo-tors executive: ChristopherBrian Busch. Busch was aconvicted pedophile andwas freed weeks before thefourth child disappeared.Busch died a year after thekillings stopped. He neverwent to trial. There werequestionable circumstancessurrounding Busch’s suicidein 1978 — some think it wasmurder.

“Over four decades, mostof those involved have died,memories have faded, andwhat physical evidence couldbe found has degraded,” saysKeenan. She wrote this bookso she could get as close tothe truth as she could aboutwhat happened inside the in-vestigation of these four chil-dren’s abductions and mur-ders and to provide some an-swers to the families.

Keenan wants to get thetruth out in the public do-main. She created a websitethesnowkillings.com. Also,anyone can leave a tip onthe recorded phone line ofthe Oakland County ChildKiller task force at 833-784-9425.

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crew, who were all Vietnamcombat vets.”

And Pop, like Blackwell,is happy to have the showfinally available for fans tohear.

“It’s great that this re-cording is coming out now,because it is concrete, clearand indisputable,” he says.“There is and has been somuch baggage around thegroup, and that’s all it is —baggage. ... It’s really goodto have this live documentof something that feels likeonly the Stooges can feel.”

For Third Man’s part,Blackwell hopes there willbe more basement and at-tic discoveries that maketheir way into his compa-ny’s hands.

“The hope is other in-teresting things will comeout,” he says. “I find it mind-boggling there’s no live re-cordings of any earlierStooges stuff. Somebodysaid, ‘Do you think there’smore out there?’ There’sgotta be. I’ve heard rumorsabout things that are float-ing around. Whether some-one knows it’s important ornot is another matter, but ifpeople find things, I hopethey bring it to us.”

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This oilpaintingby NancyMitchnickis partof theannualAnton ArtCenterexhibition.

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