- Dates
- 1981-08-31 – 1981-09-03
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityeducationrecreationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
A Kalamazoo-area group of 52 people, including 13 staff members, spent a week on Beaver Island beginning August 31, 1981. The newspaper describes music, bonfires, a DNR truck visit, a Shamrock dinner, dancing, and games.
Evidence limits
This is a personal community feature by the Beacon Junior Reporter. It does not identify the sponsoring organization, provide a complete roster, or evaluate the program’s outcomes.
Sources
- Describes a Kalamazoo-area group of 52 people, including 13 staff members, arriving August 31 aboard the Beaver Islander and staying at Isle Haven Tourist Court and Wozan's Harbor View 1. The week included singing around a bonfire, a state DNR truck visit, a Shamrock dinner, dancing, and games. The account is a first-person community feature, not a participant register or program evaluation. 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 · 1981-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fourteen-page PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the group-visit report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island hosts a Kalamazoo-area developmental-disability group, 1981”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-kalamazoo-developmental-group-visit-1981/, accessed [date], citing Michele Ann LaFreniere, Beacon Junior Reporter, Beaver Beacon, September–October 1981 combined issue. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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