OAK PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, Traverse City

  Arthea (Arty)Hackett began her journey with Oak Park when she was ten years old. She and her family moved here from the Beulah area in the early 1930s. Her father worked at the Traverse City State Hospital as an engineer. She enjoyed growing up in Oak Park with her siblings and attending school right here in the Oak Park neighborhood located in the current employee parking lot of family fare. To say Arty has made lifelong connections to Oak Park is an understatement considering she turned 100 years old this October and she continues to call Oak Park home.   As a child Arty often enjoyed swimming in the bay and sledding in the winter and playing music in all forms.   She grew up in a family that appreciated music and they often spent evenings playing music together and singing on the porch. She remembers a general store on the corner of Washington and Rose. Many churches also called Oak Park home during this time and you can still find them along our streets on both Washington and