- Date
- 2008-09-13
- Kind
- Sports
- Where
- Beaver Island · Beaver Island Community Center building
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- sportsmusiccelebrationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Beaver Island held its fourth annual Celtic Games on September 13, 2008, at the ball field, with food provided by the Sports Boosters and a post-games Grand Traverse Pipes & Drums performance at the Community Center. A later Beaver Beacon report describes the strongmen’s events, Highland pipers, rain, and an audience usually numbering around a hundred or more.
Evidence limits
The event date and program are supported by repeated calendar, newspaper, and forum notices. The forum follow-up is a participant account; audience size and the event description are not treated as audited attendance or complete results.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Celtic Games."Announces the September 13 games at the ball field, Sports Boosters food service, the Chamber/Shamrock/Boat Company sponsors, and a 7:30 p.m. Grand Traverse Pipes & Drums performance at the Community Center. This is an organizer-facing advance program. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the published September 13 program notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
- Chamber notice repeats the September 13 ball-park schedule, Sports Boosters food, Grand Traverse Pipes & Drums appearance, Community Center concert, free-will donations, and sponsors. It is an advance program, not an attendance or financial report.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001259
- A Grand Traverse Pipes & Drums member gives a post-event account of the fourth annual games weekend and Saturday concert, corroborating that the September program took place. The appreciative account provides no independent attendance or financial figures.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001260
- Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "The Celtic Games—and Dances."Retrospective report describes the ball-field games, Highland Pipers, Sports Boosters food, rain, and audience of usually a hundred or more. The October issue is used as a post-event account; its date should not be read as moving the games to October 4. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the retrospective Celtic Games report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon
- Grand Traverse Pipes & Drums requested photographs from the September 13 games, Community Center concert, and Donegal Danny''s gathering for the band''s archives. This preserves an archival-reuse request, not a new attendance or program record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001278
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island holds its fourth annual Celtic Games, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-celtic-games-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Celtic Games." (and 6 further sources listed on the page).
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