Cold, mobile crowds flock to Grand Haven to see warm people freeze

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– PHOTOS BY JEANNE VOLLMER EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

By Cynthia Price

This is the tenth year that Grand Haven has encouraged businesses with storefront windows to mount a display of live enactors to freeze in the process of telling a tale.

And if this year’s crowd is any indication, the people who come do not mind being cold spectators at all.

This year’s theme was nursery rhymes, and though there was some stretching (“Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” is rather newer than your average classic, and it was Betty Crocker in heels doing  “patty cake”), Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Little Bo Peep and many others didn’t seem to mind.

Sponsor Grand Haven Main Street, a downtown development organization featuring retailers and restaurants on Washington Street, offered a scorecard where kids and adults could match up the storefront with the nursery rhyme.

There was also an official Jurors’ Choice awarded by three honorary judges, and a People’s Choice winner. Luckily, the living mannequins only had to hold their poses from 2-4 p.m., after which the Tri-Cities Historical Museum hosted an event announcing the winners and holding a raffle.

Those who did not get enough might want to travel to St. Joseph on Friday evening, March 13, for a very similar event with the theme “Night at the Museum.”

Or they can wait for next year ­- Grand Haven Frozen in Time is always held on the last Saturday of February.

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