- Date
- 2002-06-16
- Kind
- Opening
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Historical Society
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritageexhibitioncommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Historical Society planned its traditional season-opening open house for both museums on Father’s Day, June 16, 2002. It also made more than half of over thirty oral-history recordings available for public listening at the Print Shop or library-style checkout for home use.
Evidence limits
The article reports the access program and scheduled open house but does not list every recording, visitor count, or later digitization status. The 2004 forum inventory shows that public access continued and the catalog had expanded, but it is a community-posted index rather than an archival finding aid or proof that every listed item remains available.
Sources
- Reports that more than half of over thirty oral-history tapes recorded in twelve years had been duplicated for listening at the Print Shop or library-style checkout, and announces the Father’s Day open house at both museums on June 16 from noon to 3 p.m. 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 · 2002-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the Historical Society report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-06_Beaver-Beacon
- Contemporaneous Historical Society post lists a June 2004 public-sale index of video and audio interviews and transcripts, including interviews recorded from 1969 through 2003. It documents a later access and distribution stage, not the completeness or present availability of the collection.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000174
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society opens its museums and expands public access to oral-history recordings in June 2002”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-historical-society-oral-history-open-house-june-16-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2002, “History In The News.” (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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