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Beaver Island celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with the traditional obstacle race, 2007

Also Beaver Island St Patrick’s Day 2007

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TypeEvent
Date2007-03-17
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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2007-03-17
Kind
Celebration
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Modern era
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Summary

On March 17, 2007, about 200 Islanders and visitors gathered for Beaver Island’s St. Patrick’s celebration and traditional obstacle race. The day included green beer, four-person skis, a motorless go-cart, tug-of-war, a fish toss, food, and live music.

Evidence limits

The account is a colorful newspaper report and does not provide a complete participant list, official results, or financial record.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Island Airways advertised a $75 adult round-trip fare for March 15–18 and 40 pounds of free luggage for holiday-weekend passengers. This is a first-party travel promotion, not evidence of ticket sales, passenger volume, or completed travel.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000828
  2. The discussion solicited and shared the planned March 17 activities, including an obstacle race, fish toss, tug-of-war, indoor contests, and a pub crawl. It documents advance community coordination; the newspaper report remains stronger for the attendance and completed-event account.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000830
  3. Beaver Beacon, April 2007, "Fish in the Air—and other Signs of Spring."
    Reports about 200 people gathering for green beer and the obstacle race, with four-person skis, a motorless go-cart, an ice dip, a grapefruit challenge, tug-of-war, fish toss, food, and live music. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-04_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held issue scan confirms the celebration report and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2007-04_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with the traditional obstacle race, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-patricks-day-celebration-2007/, accessed [date], citing Island Airways, “ST Pats Weekend ~ Island Airways Special Rates,” Beaver Island Forum, February 9, 2007. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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