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Beaver Island’s informal Wednesday Club winter gatherings are described, 1985

Also Beaver Island Wednesday Club · community dish-to-pass gatherings

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TypeEvent
Dates1983-01 – 1985-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
1983-01 – 1985-02
Kind
Celebration
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The March 1985 Beaver Beacon described the informal Wednesday Club’s themed dish-to-pass gatherings, including a February gathering at Beaverhead Lighthouse with about 35 people, and noted that Wednesday had become Community Choir night.

Evidence limits

The reminiscence does not provide a complete membership, schedule, or attendance record.

Sources

  1. Describes an informal dish-to-pass gathering tradition begun on a January Wednesday in 1983, with themed meals and a recent February gathering at Beaverhead Lighthouse attended by about 35 people; the column also notes that Wednesday had become Community Choir night. It is a community reminiscence, not a membership or attendance ledger. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1985-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held seventeen-page March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Wednesday Club reminiscence.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1985-03_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island’s informal Wednesday Club winter gatherings are described, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wednesday-club-1985/, accessed [date], citing What Do You Do on Beaver Island During the Winter?, Beaver Beacon, March 1985. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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