Name: May 2005 Beacon retrospective revisits Island history and community records
Start: 2005-05
End: 2005-05
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2005-05
Kind: Publication
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: publicationhistoryheritagecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The May 2005 “On This Date” column gathers earlier Beaver Island notices about memorial funds, community theatre, youth education, beaches, volleyball, emergency response, and a historic aircraft disaster.

Evidence limits

This record concerns the 2005 retrospective publication; each historical claim should be checked against the earlier Beacon or underlying record before being treated as independently established.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, May 2005, "On This Date."
Revisits Island community history including the Collar Memorial Fund, Community Players, summer-school idea, beach fund, early volleyball, fire response, and earlier plane-crash remembrance. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2005, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.
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Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “May 2005 Beacon retrospective revisits Island history and community records”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-on-this-date-may-2005-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2005, "On This Date." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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