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Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1989

Also 1989 Beaver Island Homecoming · HOMEcoming 1989

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TypeEvent
Dates1989-08-11 – 1989-08-13
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
1989-08-11 – 1989-08-13
Kind
Celebration
Where
Holy Cross Parish Hall
Carried out by
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Followed by
Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1990
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritagereligion
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The 1989 Beaver Island Homecoming ran August 11-13, with the dinner dated specifically to Sunday, August 13. The Beacon explicitly credits the Holy Cross Church fund with the proceeds of the dance, dinner, and Basket of Joy raffle, and names the Holy Cross Church Hall as the dance venue. The softball tournament that weekend was billed as the 14th annual, which would place its start around 1976 – consistent with the hub article’s separately documented “first annual” 1976 softball tournament.

Program

Dance. Saturday, August 12, at the Holy Cross Church Hall; musicians Edward Palmer, Ed Sobie, Rich Scripps, and Danny Gillespie, with Cindy Gillespie also singing.

Basket of Joy. Won by Jim Browe, described as the scorekeeper for the Homecoming softball tournaments “for the past several years.”

Dinner. Sunday, August 13, a roasted half-chicken dinner serving 400.

Softball. The “14th ANNUAL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT,” August 11-13.

Las Vegas Night. August 16, proceeds toward Parish Hall improvements.

Family reunion. The first McCann Family reunion was held on Homecoming weekend (Saturday, August 12), a 32-person, five-state gathering that also took in the Homecoming Dance, Sunday Mass, and Homecoming Dinner.

The Beacon states plainly that “all proceeds from the dance, dinner and Basket of Joy go towards the Holy Cross Church fund.”

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper report of the dance, dinner, raffle, and tournament, not an audited financial account or a complete organizing roster. The Las Vegas Night is a related but separate fundraiser held a few days after the Homecoming weekend proper.

Open questions

  • If the 1989 tournament was truly the 14th, does that fix the softball tournament’s start at 1976, matching the hub’s “first annual” 1976 report, or is 27-years-ago-in-2002 (the Beacon’s later arithmetic, implying about 1975) the better count?

See also

Sources

  1. Lists "Homecoming Weekend, August 11-13" among the season's events. Read in the in-repo data/ tree. 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 · 1989-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held sixteen-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 · 1989-03_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Lists "Aug 11-13 Homecoming Weekend, Soft ball tournament, dinner Parish Hall 8-13-89." Read in the in-repo data/ tree. 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 · 1989-07_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held twenty-two-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 · 1989-07_Beaver-Beacon
  5. Reports the Homecoming Dance held Saturday, August 12, at the Holy Cross Church Hall, with musicians Edward Palmer, Ed Sobie, Rich Scripps, and Danny Gillespie, plus Cindy Gillespie singing; the Basket of Joy won by Jim Browe, "the scorekeeper for the Homecoming Tournaments for the past several years"; a Sunday roasted-half-chicken dinner serving 400; "all proceeds from the dance, dinner and Basket of Joy go towards the Holy Cross Church fund"; a Las Vegas Night on August 16 benefiting Parish Hall improvements; and the "14th ANNUAL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT," August 11-13. A separate item reports the first McCann Family reunion, held on Homecoming weekend (Saturday, August 12), whose 32 attendees "also enjoyed the Homecoming Dance, Sunday Mass, and Homecoming Dinner." Read in the in-repo data/ tree. 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 · 1989-09_Beaver-Beacon
  6. The held twenty-four-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 · 1989-09_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-homecoming-1989/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1989, calendar of events. (and 5 further sources listed on the page).

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