- Date
- 1982-05-22
- Kind
- Rescue
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityemergency-managementcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On May 22, 1982, Genie Vreeland became separated from her husband while mushroom hunting near Fox Lake. A local search, including an airplane, ended when moped riders found her near Fox Lake Road and West Side Drive.
Evidence limits
The newspaper’s humorous account establishes a resolved local search but not a formal incident log, search duration, or complete participant list.
Sources
- Reports Genie Vreeland becoming separated from Bucky while mushroom hunting near Fox Lake on May 22, a search involving people and an airplane, and her discovery near Fox Lake Road and West Side Drive by a couple on mopeds. Everyone was accounted for; it is a first-person community narrative, not a formal search log. 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 · 1982-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eleven-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the search account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Searchers locate Genie Vreeland after she became separated near Fox Lake, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-genie-vreeland-lost-sheep-search-1982/, accessed [date], citing “Lost Sheep on Beaver Island,” Beaver Beacon, June 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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