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Beaver Island Homecoming dinner marks eighty years

Also Beaver Island Homecoming dinner eighty years 2012

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Date2012-08
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Summary

The August 2012 Beaver Beacon connects the Homecoming dinner with eighty years of Beaver Island community tradition. A July 2012 forum notice from the Holy Cross Altar Society said that the annual dinner was cancelled for 2012; the newspaper retrospective should therefore not be read as proof that the 2012 dinner occurred.

Evidence limits

The Beacon documents the tradition, while the forum supplies a specific cancellation notice. The sources do not establish a 2012 dinner attendance or meal event.

Sources

  1. The Altar Society repeated that the June 26 discussion meeting was cancelled and clarified that a church bulletin had been printed before the decision. This is a second contemporaneous clarification of the meeting confusion; the July cancellation notice remains the stronger evidence that the August dinner itself was cancelled.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005074
  2. Beaver Beacon, August 2012, "The August Homecoming Dinner: 80 Years."
    Reports the Homecoming dinner and its eight-decade community history. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-08_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The held August issue scan confirms this source thread.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-08_Beaver-Beacon
  4. Holy Cross Altar Society announced that the annual Homecoming Dinner, usually held at Holy Cross Hall in August, was cancelled for 2012. This contemporaneous first-party cancellation notice qualifies the Beacon retrospective: the newspaper article documents the dinner tradition, not necessarily a 2012 dinner taking place.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005240
  5. The Altar Society invited public discussion of the dinner's future, added and then cancelled a June 26 meeting after community feedback, and left the dinner's status unresolved in this thread. The later July cancellation notice is the stronger direct evidence of the 2012 cancellation.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005045
  6. The Altar Society said a June 26 meeting had been cancelled and explained that an earlier bulletin had been printed before the cancellation. This clarifies the contemporaneous confusion but does not by itself settle whether the August dinner would occur; the July cancellation notice is stronger evidence.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005048

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Homecoming dinner marks eighty years”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-homecoming-dinner-eighty-years-2012/, accessed [date], citing Holy Cross Altar Society, “August Dinner Meeting,” Beaver Island Forum, June 23–25, 2012. (and 5 further sources listed on the page).

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