- Date
- 1980-04
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- celebrationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April issue reports an Easter Bonnet Gang of five island women displaying handmade bonnets and singing to people they stopped.
Evidence and limits
This is a humorous community notice, not a formal event program or attendance record.
Sources
- Reports Vera Wojan, Ann Hayhoe, Harriet and Nancy Rafferty, and Joannie Rafferty DesChamps displaying handmade Easter bonnets and singing “In Your Easter Bonnet” to people they stopped. It is a humorous community notice, not a formal event program or attendance record. 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 · 1980-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twelve-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Easter observation.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1980-04_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island women form an Easter Bonnet Gang, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-easter-bonnet-gang-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1980, Easter island observation. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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