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Beaver Island garden tour benefit visits seven private gardens, 2011

Also Beaver Island seven garden tour benefit 2011 · Beaver Island Garden Tour Benefit August 2011

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TypeEvent
Date2011-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2011-07
Kind
Fundraising
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The August 2011 Beaver Beacon reports a benefit tour visiting seven private Beaver Island gardens. Thirty-eight attendees, along with ten bikers and walkers, toured the gardens, shared lunch, and participated in a quilt auction.

Evidence limits

The report documents the tour and its described fundraising activity, but not the beneficiary amount, a complete participant list, or a formal garden inventory.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, August 2011, "Garden Tour Benefit."
    Reports a completed tour of seven gardens, with 38 attendees plus ten bikers and walkers, a luncheon, a quilt auction, and proceeds for the sponsoring benefit. It does not identify the beneficiary amount or provide a complete garden inventory. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held August issue scan confirms the garden-tour report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-08_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The organizer thanked participants after the Garden Tour and described it as a successful social event. This is a brief first-person follow-up; the Beaver Beacon supplies the attendance and seven-garden details.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003735

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island garden tour benefit visits seven private gardens, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-garden-tour-benefit-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2011, "Garden Tour Benefit." (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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