Name: Beaver Island local notes report photographs, a pig roast, a car accident, and a quilt retreat, 1986
Start: 1986-09
End: 1986-09
Location: Beaver Island

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1986-09
Kind: Publication
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communitycommerceseasonal-lifecraftcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Carolyn Works’s November 1986 “From the Beaver” column records a cluster of September community notes: photographs, a pig roast, a garden, a car-accident recovery, a new car, and a quilt retreat.

Evidence limits

This is a community-notes column, not a sales inventory, event ledger, accident investigation, medical record, or retreat register.

Sources

Carolyn Works, “From the Beaver,” Beaver Beacon, November 1986.
Reports Mel Bissell’s island photographs at McDonough’s Market, Marge Wagner’s September 14 pig roast, Archie and Mary Minor’s garden, B.J. Wyckoff’s recovery after a car accident, Helen Cooper’s new car, and Joe Cunningham and Gwen Marston’s September 18–21 quilt retreat. It is a community-notes column, not a sales inventory, event ledger, accident investigation, medical record, or retreat 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, November 1986, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page November issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the local-notes column.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island local notes report photographs, a pig roast, a car accident, and a quilt retreat, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-local-notes-september-1986/, accessed [date], citing Carolyn Works, “From the Beaver,” Beaver Beacon, November 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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