In the world of animation, one former Spring Lake resident is an icon who influenced the likes of Walt Disney and became the first animator to have his work displayed at the Louvre. Nearly 75 years after his death, Winsor McCay's hometown community has taken on the awesome task of determining a proper hometown hero's honor.
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Nestled between the Spring Lake District Library and Spring Lake Township Hall off Exchange Street is a small area marked by a solitary picnic table and sections of the former Union School foundation still peeking above the green grass.
It was there in the late 19th century that famed illustrator-cartoonist-animator Winsor McCay went to school as a boy. It was there that one of America's pioneers of animation first began to draw. And it is there that Spring Lake city officials hope to create a memorial or statue commemorating Spring Lake's most famous, albeit forgotten, citizen.
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