- Dates
- 2003-02-14 – 2003-02-16
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communitymusiccelebrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The 36th annual Grand Rapids–Beaver Island party drew just over 200 people to the Airport Hilton over the February 14, 2003 weekend. The event featured Island musicians and dancing, a $240 50/50, and a continuing tradition that had recovered from a much smaller gathering seventeen years earlier.
Evidence limits
The feature is a newspaper retrospective and does not provide a complete attendance or financial record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, March 2003, “The Grand Rapids Party.”Reports just over 200 attendees, discounted lodging and meals, Island musicians, dancing, a $240 50/50, and the event’s recovery from a low point seventeen years earlier. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the March 2003 report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-03_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “The 36th annual Grand Rapids–Beaver Island party draws more than 200 people on February 14, 2003”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-grand-rapids-party-february-14-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2003, “The Grand Rapids Party.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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