- Dates
- 1978-02 – 1978-03
- Kind
- Transportation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationrecreationcommunityenvironment
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The March 1978 Beaver Beacon reports snowmobile trips from Beaver Island to Naubinway and Cross Village and a separate Garden Island ski and snowshoe trip by island women.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-reported winter travel account, not an ice-safety assessment, route log, weather record, or complete participant register.
Sources
- Reports snowmobile parties reaching Naubinway across ice near the shipping channel, a later trip to Cross Village, and Kathy Speck, Cindy Gillespie, Mary Ann Omar, Terri Bussey, Kitty Cull, Chris Warburton, Ann Welke, Laura Esch, and Caroline Esch traveling by snowshoe and ski to Garden Island. It is a first-person community report, not an ice-safety, route, weather, or trip-log record. 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 · 1978-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the ice-travel account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1978-03_Beaver-Beacon
Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island snowmobile ice travel to Naubinway and Cross Village, 1978”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ice-travel-to-naubinway-cross-village-1978/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1978, “Ice Travelers.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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