- Date
- circa 1959-12
- Kind
- Celebration
- Participants
- Robert V. Malloy (traveler) · Patrick W. LaFreniere (traveler) · Hugh Earl Boyle (traveler) · Don Burke (traveler)
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityeducationmaritime
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1960 Beaver Beacon lists island residents and students spending Christmas 1959 at home and reports Robert Malloy, Patrick LaFreniere Jr., Earl Boyle, and Don Burke returning from sailing in time for the holidays.
Evidence and limits
The list is a community notice, not a travel register. It supplies no vessel, route, exact dates, or complete identity records for the named people.
Sources
- Lists Beverly and Margaret O’Donnell, Ronald O’Donnell, Sally Martin, Gary McDonough, Loretta LaFreniere, Rosemary McDonough, John Bonner, and Stanley Burns as spending Christmas at home with their families. It separately says Robert Malloy, Patrick LaFreniere Jr., Earl Boyle, and Don Burke arrived home from sailing for the holidays. The notice gives no travel dates, vessel, itinerary, or complete identity records.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held four-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.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1960-01_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Christmas homecomings, 1959”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-christmas-homecomings-1959/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1960, Christmas homecoming notices. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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