- Date
- 2003-03-22
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityheritagecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Local AmVets members began placing American flags on Beaver Island’s downtown light poles on March 22, 2003. They planned to purchase more flags and extend the display toward Whiskey Point Light.
Evidence limits
The notice records the start and intended extent of the display, not the final number of flags or whether the planned extension was completed.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2003, “AmVets Flag Main Street.”Reports that local AmVets began placing American flags on downtown light poles on March 22 and intended to buy enough additional flags to continue the display to Whiskey Point Light. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the flag-display report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island AmVets begin extending an American-flag display toward Whiskey Point on March 22, 2003”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-amvets-flag-display-march-22-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2003, “AmVets Flag Main Street.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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