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David Broder reports on Beaver Island politics in the Washington Post, 2004

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Date2004-08-22
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Summary

The Washington Post published David S. Broder’s “Politics on Beaver Island” on August 22, 2004. The article used the island’s presidential campaign signs and local disagreements as a window into national political divisions, while also sketching the island’s tourism, family, and arts communities.

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The KB currently holds the article through a forum reproduction rather than a publisher copy. It should be treated as a secondary journalistic account and not as independent proof of every quoted local detail.

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  1. The forum copy identifies Broder's Washington Post article and describes a fifth-generation family connection, local political-sign conflict, Mary Scholl and the Toy Museum, and the island's 2004 presidential politics. This is a secondary journalist's account as reproduced in a forum, not a neutral survey; the held article or publisher archive should be consulted for exact wording and the local claims should be corroborated independently.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000189

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Beaver Island Archive, “David Broder reports on Beaver Island politics in the Washington Post, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-david-broder-washington-post-article-2004/, accessed [date], citing David S. Broder, “Politics on Beaver Island,” Washington Post, August 22, 2004, reproduced in the Beaver Island Forum topic “Article on Beaver Island by syndicated writer David Broder.”.

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