Name: Beaver Beacon's August 2006 On This Date retrospective
Start: 1996-08
End: 1996-08
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1996-08
Kind: Publication
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: historypublicationcommunityfundraisingheritagecommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The August 2006 Beaver Beacon’s “On This Date” column revisited reporting from 1996, including the Vernon shipwreck story, Community House fundraisers, a donated church organ, the newly organized hospice, a pesticide warning, Chamber activities, cemetery surveying, and memorial scholarships.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 2006, "On This Date."
Revisits ten-year-old reporting about the Vernon shipwreck story, Community House fundraising, a donated organ for the St. James Episcopal Mission, Beaver Island Hospice, a pesticide warning, the Chamber's 1996 activities, cemetery surveying, and scholarship awards. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 2006, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon's August 2006 On This Date retrospective”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-on-this-date-august-2006-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2006, "On This Date." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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