Name: Beaver Island Historical Society hosts a House of David history talk, 1984
Start: 1984-06-24
End: 1984-06-24
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 1984-06-24
Kind: Meeting
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Historical Society
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: heritagereligioncommunitypublicationcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Historical Society hosted Ramon W. Nelson at the Marine Museum on June 24, 1984, where he described his childhood in the House of David settlement on High Island and showed historical photographs to 68 attendees.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper program account and does not substitute for House of David records or an independent attendance count.

Sources

Beaver Island Historical Society program report, Beaver Beacon, July 1984.
Reports a June 24 program at the Marine Museum in which Ramon W. Nelson described his childhood in the House of David settlement on High Island from 1920 to 1927, showed photographs of its buildings, lumber operation, docks, farming, and the Rosabelle schooner, and drew 68 attendees. It is a community program report, not an institutional House of David archive or attendance register. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1984, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twelve-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the House of David talk report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society hosts a House of David history talk, 1984”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-house-of-david-talk-1984/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Historical Society program report, Beaver Beacon, July 1984. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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