Golf in Chesaning

Chesaning is a small Saginaw County community on the Shiawassee River known for the Chesaning Showboat, an outdoor summer entertainment tradition that has presented musical performances on the river each summer since 1937—an extraordinary record for a small agricultural community to sustain a major performance tradition for nearly ninety consecutive years. The Showboat tradition gives Chesaning a civic identity built around summer celebration and entertainment that distinguishes it from comparable small mid-Michigan agricultural communities, and the community's investment in this tradition reflects the social cohesion and civic pride of a Saginaw County river-town that has chosen to define itself through culture as well as agriculture.