- Date
- 2004-09
- Kind
- Publication
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- historyheritagepublicationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 2004 Beaver Beacon’s On This Date column revisited Island news from ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years earlier, including preservation work, the local return of the Boat Company, fishing and school news, a ferry rescue, and memories of early twentieth-century Island life.
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, September 2004, "On This Date."Reviews ten-, twenty-, thirty-, and forty-year-old Beaver Beacon reports on preservation, bottle messages, civic projects, the Boat Company, fishing, school, ferry rescue, hunting, and early Island life. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon's September 2004 On This Date column revisits Island history”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-on-this-date-september-2004-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2004, "On This Date." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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