Name: Beaver Island Historical Society resumes lunchtime museum speaker programs, 2021
Start: 2021-06-17
End: 2021-06-28
Location: Mormon Print Shop

Event

Dates: 2021-06-17 – 2021-06-28
Kind: Lecture
Where: Mormon Print Shop
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: historymuseumseducationmormonismcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

In June 2021, the Beaver Island Historical Society resumed lunchtime museum programming with “Picnic on the Patio” at the Print Shop and “Marine Museum Mondays.” The month’s announcements included a June 19 lecture on James Strang’s government on Beaver Island and a June 23 presentation on Elizabeth Whitney Williams, a Beaver Island child who later became a Great Lakes lighthouse keeper.

Evidence limits

These are program announcements. The James Strang interpretation is preserved as the speaker’s thesis rather than an independently adjudicated historical conclusion, and the archive does not preserve attendance or a complete series record.

Sources

Beaver Island Historical Society, “Beaver Island Historical Society June 19th 3pm,” Beaver Island Forum, June 17, 2021.
The Society announced a June 19 Print Shop and Zoom lecture by Michael Michaelson on James Strang’s government on Beaver Island. The description preserves the speaker’s proposed interpretation, including a semi-democratic community thesis; those interpretations are attributed to the presentation and are not treated as settled historical fact.
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Beaver Island Historical Society, “Historical Society Lunchtime Speaker Series RETURNS,” Beaver Island Forum, June 20, 2021.
The Society announced weekly “Picnic on the Patio” and “Marine Museum Mondays” beginning June 23 and June 28, including a presentation on Elizabeth Whitney Williams and her memoir Child of the Sea. The announcement establishes the planned series, not attendance or every later session.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society resumes lunchtime museum speaker programs, 2021”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-historical-society-lunchtime-speaker-series-2021/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Historical Society, “Beaver Island Historical Society June 19th 3pm,” Beaver Island Forum, June 17, 2021. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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