- Date
- 1963-04-20
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Saint James Harbor
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Civic Association
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentconservationcommunity
- Within
- Saint James Harbor
Summary
The Beaver Island Civic Association organized a harbor-beach cleanup on April 20, 1963, while unusually low water exposed debris. The May Beaver Beacon reports that volunteers using trucks and tractors removed 22 loads of tires, tin cans, broken bottles, engines, logs, and other wreckage between 1 and 5 p.m.
Evidence and limits
This is a contemporary newspaper account of a volunteer cleanup. It does not provide a volunteer roster, dump receipts, measurements of material removed, or evidence of long-term shoreline conditions.
Open questions
- Can Civic Association records or photographs document the cleanup and its disposal site?
Sources
- Reports a 1–5 p.m. April 20 cleanup prompted by the Civic Association, volunteer trucks and tractors, and 22 loads of tires, cans, bottles, engines, logs, and wreckage taken to the dump.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1963-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1963-05_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island harbor beach cleanup, 1963”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-harbor-cleanup-1963/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1963, “Low Water Expose.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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