Name: Beaver Beacon's December 2004 On This Date column revisits Island history
Start: 2004-12
End: 2004-12
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004-12
Kind: Publication
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: historyheritagepublicationcommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 2004 Beaver Beacon’s On This Date column revisited Island news from ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years earlier, including the new boat, tennis, fire response, power outages, civic projects, school, fisheries, hunting, Christmas, and other community history.

Evidence limits

This article documents the newspaper’s retrospective column rather than replacing the earlier issues or independently verifying every historical item it summarizes.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, December 2004, "On This Date."
Reviews ten-, twenty-, thirty-, and forty-year-old Beaver Beacon reports on the new boat, tennis, fire response, power outages, civic projects, school, fisheries, hunting, Christmas, and Island life. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, December 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon's December 2004 On This Date column revisits Island history”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-on-this-date-december-2004-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 2004, "On This Date." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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