- Date
- 1989-06
- Kind
- Migration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- familymigrationhousingheritagecommunitypublication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 1989 Beaver Beacon profiled Bonnie and Fred (Bud) Keie as they built a semi-retirement home on Pine Drive. Bonnie moved to Beaver Island in 1988, while Bud commuted from his Charlevoix auto-body business; Bonnie had first spent childhood summers on the island.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper resident profile and construction-in-progress account, not a completed home inspection or complete family history.
Sources
- Reports Bonnie's childhood summer visits, the couple's long connection to Beaver Island, her September 1988 move, and Bud's commuting from Charlevoix while their semi-retirement home on Pine Drive was being built. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1989-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-two-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the retirement profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1989-06_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Bonnie and Bud Keie build a Beaver Island semi-retirement home, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bonnie-bud-keie-semi-retirement-home-1989/, accessed [date], citing “Retirees on Beaver Island,” Beaver Beacon, June 1989. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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