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.