- Date
- 2010-05-20
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- familycommunitycelebration
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 2010 Beaver Beacon reported that Larry Forth and John Bowie held a commitment ceremony in Sault Ste. Marie on May 20, witnessed by two Beaver Island friends. The report said they had been together for 28 years and had recently made Beaver Island their full-time retirement home.
Evidence limits
This preserves the newspaper’s community announcement and uses its wording; it does not infer a jurisdictional legal status beyond what the source states.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, June 2010, "A Commitment Ceremony."Reports that Larry Forth and John Bowie, both 64, held a May 20 ceremony in Sault Ste. Marie, witnessed by John Fiegen and Donna Hardenberg of Beaver Island, after 28 years together. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held June issue scan confirms the commitment-ceremony report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Larry Forth and John Bowie hold a commitment ceremony, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-larry-forth-john-bowie-commitment-ceremony-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2010, "A Commitment Ceremony." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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