- Dates
- 1978-12 – 1978-12-31
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- celebrationcommunityeconomyreligioncommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1979 Beaver Beacon recaps several successful 1978 holiday events, including a Progressive Dinner and Dance that reportedly raised almost $950 and a New Year’s Eve Party that raised another $900 for the Hall Improvement Fund.
Evidence and limits
This is a retrospective newspaper account, not an attendance register, receipt file, or audited account.
Sources
- Reports a successful nine-booth Christmas Bazaar, school Christmas Program with Santa, a Progressive Dinner and Dance that brought in almost $950 for the Hall Improvement Fund, Christmas Eve caroling and music, and a New Year’s Eve Party that brought in another $900. It is a retrospective newspaper account, not attendance registers, receipts, or audited accounts. 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 · 1979-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the holiday retrospective and reported fund totals.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island holiday events raise Hall Improvement Fund money, 1978”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-holiday-events-and-hall-fund-1978/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1979, holiday-events retrospective. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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