Name: St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 2010
Start: 2010-03-17
End: 2010-03-20
Location: Beaver Island Community Center building

Event

Dates: 2010-03-17 – 2010-03-20
Kind: Celebration
Where: Beaver Island Community Center building
Followed by: St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 2011
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: celebrationcommunityheritageirish-arranmore
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Beacon’s February and March 2010 issues advertise a St. Patrick’s Day concert by the touring group Cara at the Beaver Island Community Center on March 17th, and a broader “St. Patrick’s Day Celebration” calendar entry for March 20th; the April 2010 issue’s photographs (without an accompanying narrative) show a Main Street parade and tug o’war.

Program

A ticketed concert by Cara at the Beaver Island Community Center on the evening of March 17th ($20 adults, $10 students). Separately, a “St. Patrick’s Day Celebration” was calendared for March 20th; the April 2010 photographs (a parade, a tug o’war, and an antique car decorated in green) are consistent with the Main Street games format documented in 2004-2009 but are not accompanied by a narrative report naming a venue or event winners for that portion.

Evidence limits

The concert venue is explicitly named and reasonably assigned to structure/beaver-island-community-center, but the broader Main Street games/parade shown in the April photographs are not narrated in the source read here, so no venue, organizer, or winners can be recorded for that part of the day. The relationship between the March 17th concert date and the March 20th “Celebration” calendar date is not explained in the sources; both are recorded here as a single spanning event rather than assumed to be unconnected.

Open questions

Was the March 20th “St. Patrick’s Day Celebration” the traditional Main-Street games day, held on the nearest Saturday to the 17th, and is there a fuller narrative report of it in an issue not checked here?
Who organized the Cara concert, and was it a Community Center program or a outside booking using the Center as venue?

Sources

Beaver Island Forum, "Cara in concert St. Patrick's Day!," March 7–17, 2010.
The Community Center announced Cara’s March 17 performance, ticket prices, Island Airways sponsorship and Shamrock discount, then posted a same-day reminder that tickets remained available. These institutional notices establish the program and promotion, not attendance.
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Beaver Island Forum, "St. Pat's Special at Island Airways," February 25–March 15, 2010.
Island Airways announced a $40 adult one-way fare for March 15–22 and said St. Patrick’s shirts were available at the Charlevoix Airport and Harbour Market through a joint effort with the Shamrock. This first-party promotion documents transportation and merchandising around the celebration, not concert attendance.
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Beaver Island Community Center and participants, "A Taste of Cara tonight!," and "THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!," Beaver Island Forum, March 16–25, 2010.
The Community Center promoted Cara's pre-concert appearance at the Shamrock; a later venue thank-you called the St. Patrick's weekend festivities a success and credited sponsors, musicians, staff, and customers. This is organizer testimony without attendance or financial totals.
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Angel Welke, "St. Pat's Festivities - Getting Ready," Beaver Island Forum, March 12, 2010.
The airline representative linked a Grand Rapids Press article about the island's St. Patrick's celebration. The external article is not preserved here; this source documents media circulation, not an independent event account.
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Dana Hodgson and the Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce, "THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!," Beaver Island Forum, March 25, 2010.
A venue thank-you credits sponsors, musicians, staff, and customers and characterizes the St. Patrick's weekend as successful; a Chamber reply links a television spot. This is organizer testimony without attendance or financial totals.
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Dana Hodgson, "The Shamrock & St. Patricks Day," and Angel Welke, "Shamrock & Island Airways St. Pat's Shirts," Beaver Island Forum, March 15–16, 2010.
The Shamrock and Island Airways notices promote Guinness Girls, music, specials, games, merchandise, and jointly promoted St. Patrick's shirts. These are first-party promotions, not attendance or sales records.
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Beaver Beacon, February 2010, calendar of events.
Calendar entry: "March 20 - St. Patrick's Day Celebration on Beaver Island," alongside a photograph and notice of a "ST. PATRICK'S DAY CONCERT." No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-02_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, February 2010, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held forty-four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-02_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, March 2010, "St. Patrick's Day Concert" notice.
Announces: "Cara will appear in a St. Patrick's Day concert at the Beaver Island Community Center the 17th at 8pm. Tickets are $20 for Adults and $10 for Students and are available at the Center." Cara is described elsewhere in the same issue as a touring Irish/German folk group appearing among "top Irish acts at major festivals." The same issue repeats the March 20 "St. Patrick's Day Celebration" calendar entry, indicating the concert (on the 17th, the holiday itself) and the broader island celebration (on the nearest Saturday, the 20th) were reported as distinct dates. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-03_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, March 2010, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held forty-four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-03_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, April 2010, St. Patrick's Day photographs.
Photographs show a Main Street parade and tug o'war with participants in green costumes, an antique car decorated with a green flag, and a child in a shirt reading "ST. PATRICK'S DAY," but the surrounding text is a Beaver Island Wildlife Club deer-herd report, not a narrative account of the day itself. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-04_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, April 2010, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held forty-eight-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-04_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-patricks-day-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "Cara in concert St. Patrick's Day!," March 7–17, 2010. (and 11 further sources listed on the page).

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