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Beaver Island Museum Week, 1981

Also Museum Week 1981

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TypeEvent
Dates1981-07-20 – 1981-07-25
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
1981-07-20 – 1981-07-25
Kind
Celebration
Where
Mormon Print Shop
Carried out by
Beaver Island Historical Society
Followed by
Beaver Island Historical Society marks its 25th anniversary and holds Museum Week, 1982
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritageexhibition
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The 1981 Beaver Island Museum Week ran July 20-25, the second year the Beaver Island Historical Society is documented holding it. The May 1981 Beacon announced the dates and program; the July issue confirms it took place, reporting “a happy and successful museum week,” and the Sweet Adelines’ own note independently confirms they sang on the Museum’s porch on the opening evening, Monday, July 20.

Program

Per the May announcement: a privately made movie of old-time Beaver Island, a lecture on the island’s beach plants, an Open House at the Protar Home, a “special day” at the Marine Museum, daily craft demonstrations on the Print Shop’s front porch, and a week-long book sale (a repeat of the “great success” of 1980’s book sale, run again with help from Mary Minor). The Sweet Adelines sang on the Museum porch the opening Monday evening, July 20 — their second consecutive year performing at the pageant circuit and their first documented Museum Week appearance.

Evidence limits

The February 1981 notice looking back on “last summer’s successful afternoons on the Museum porch” is the clearest documented link between the 1980 and 1981 programs, though it does not itself describe 1981’s own schedule. No attendance or financial total specific to 1981 survives in the held record; the July recap is a short, general note rather than a detailed program report.

Open questions

  • Did the movie showing, beach-plants lecture, Protar Home open house and Marine Museum day occur exactly as announced in May, or were any changed or cancelled? No follow-up program-by-program report survives.

See also

Sources

  1. Looks ahead to "repeat last summer's successful afternoons on the Museum porch during Museum Week," confirming 1980 as a precedent, plus the annual used-book sale. 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 · 1981-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held thirteen-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Historical Society notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-02_Beaver-Beacon
  3. States "MUSEUM WEEK which will take place July 20 thru 25," with a privately made movie of old-time Beaver Island, a lecture on the island's beach plants, an Open House at the Protar Home, a special day at the Marine Museum, daily craft demonstrations, and a week-long book sale. 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 · 1981-05_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held thirteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Museum Week announcement.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-05_Beaver-Beacon
  5. Reports "a happy and successful museum week" just concluded and a Society open house planned for August 30. The Sweet Adelines note separately records that they "helped to celebrate Beaver Islands Museum Week by singing on the Museums porch Monday evening, July 20th" -- confirming the announced start date actually occurred. 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 · 1981-07_Beaver-Beacon
  6. The held twelve-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Museum Week follow-up.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Museum Week, 1981”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-museum-week-1981/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Historical Society notice, Beaver Beacon, February 1981. (and 5 further sources listed on the page).

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