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Jerry Volgenau researches Beaver Island for a Great Lakes islands book

Also Jerry Volgenau researches Beaver Island for a Great Lakes islands book

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Date2003-11
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Summary

Travel editor Jerry Volgenau spent four days on Beaver Island in fall 2003 researching a proposed book about Great Lakes islands, using tours and Beaver Island Historical Society photographs as source material.

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The article describes a proposed book project and research visit, not a completed manuscript or publication.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, November 2003, “Jerry Volgenau’s New Book”.
    Reports the former Detroit Free Press travel editor’s four-day Beaver Island research visit, tours, and use of Beaver Island Historical Society archive photographs for a proposed Islands of the Great Lakes book. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the November 2003 report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-11_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Jerry Volgenau researches Beaver Island for a Great Lakes islands book”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jerry-volgenau-islands-book-research-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 2003, “Jerry Volgenau’s New Book”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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