Meeks looks back on the glory years of America's "Black Eden" summertime resort, the first thing that comes to mind is a 1960s vision of the youthful Four Tops splashing around Idlewild Lake in a ...

Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan all sang in Idlewild. Bill Cosby and B.B. King played halls such as The Paradise Clubhouse and Purple Palace in the resort community in Lake County, Michigan.

Idlewild – A sheriff has ... which once served as a major summer resort for African Americans in Michigan’s northwestern Lower Peninsula. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office turns returnables ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – In Idlewild, Gezelle Grier-Myers is ... Paradise Club and El Morocco in the resort community in Lake County, Michigan. Grier-Myers, who describers herself as “one of ...

IDLEWILD — A historic landmark in Lake County will be brought back to ... where many Black Americans could vacation. Idlewild resort was called the “Black Eden of Michigan” and was visited ...