Name: Jack Messer presents a model fire engine to Beaver Island Fire Department, 2010
Start: 2010-05
End: 2010-05
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2010-05
Kind: Occurrence
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: firepublic-servicecraftcommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Jack Messer presented a model of an old-fashioned fire engine to the Beaver Island Fire Department; the May 2010 Beaver Beacon photographs the gift with Chief Tim McDonough.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper gift report, not an appraisal, inventory record, or complete account of the model’s construction.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, May 2010, "We’ve Come a Long Way."
Reports Jack Messer’s model fire-engine gift to the Beaver Island Fire Department and identifies Chief Tim McDonough in the accompanying photographs. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2010, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the presentation and photographs.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Jack Messer presents a model fire engine to Beaver Island Fire Department, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fire-department-model-engine-gift-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2010, "We’ve Come a Long Way." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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