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Laura Reid announces the Buff-Kett mortgage burning, 2006

Also Help Burn a Mortgage

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TypeEvent
Date2006-09-17
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2006-09-17
Kind
Celebration
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationhousingcommunityheritagecommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Laura Reid invited Islanders to celebrate the Buff-Kett mortgage burning on September 17, 2006, at the old Smalley Daniels place, with an October 1 rain date. The planned gathering included food, games, a campfire, and Island music.

Evidence limits

This is an advance invitation; it does not establish that the celebration took place.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, September 2006, "Help Burn a Mortgage."
    Invites the community to Laura Reid's September 17 mortgage-burning celebration at the old Smalley Daniels place, with food, games, a campfire, and Island music; October 1 is listed as the rain date. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the mortgage-burning invitation.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Laura Reid announces the Buff-Kett mortgage burning, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-buff-kett-mortgage-burning-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2006, "Help Burn a Mortgage." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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