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Beaver Beacon's September 2004 On This Date column revisits Island history

Also On This Date September 2004

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TypeEvent
Date2004-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
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Date
2004-09
Kind
Publication
Eras
Modern era
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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

  1. 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
  2. The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-09_Beaver-Beacon

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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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