Mary and Bert McDonough’s 1925 winter ice-crossing reminiscence, published 1965

Event

Dates: circa 1925 – circa 1927
Kind: Migration
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: migrationmaritimeheritagecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

An April 1965 retrospective recalls Mary and Bert McDonough’s 1925 journey to Beaver Island: train travel to Petoskey, a rural-mail-carrier connection to Cross Village, and a dangerous sleigh crossing over the ice with mail carriers and fishermen. It also remembers a 1927 trip that used a tug for part of the route.

Evidence and limits

This is retrospective community memory, not a contemporaneous travel log, route survey, passenger manifest, or complete participant record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 1965, “Beaver Tales.”
Recounts Mary and Bert McDonough’s 1925 winter journey from Milwaukee through Chicago and Petoskey to Cross Village, then by sleigh over the ice with mail carriers and fishermen via Gray’s Reef to Beaver Island; it also recalls a 1927 trip using a tug and sleigh. The account is retrospective memory and does not provide a contemporaneous travel log, route survey, or complete participant identities.
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Beaver Beacon, April 1965, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Mary and Bert McDonough’s 1925 winter ice-crossing reminiscence, published 1965”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-1925-ice-crossing-reminiscence-1965/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1965, “Beaver Tales.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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