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Beaver Beacon publishes winter-life and rumor columns, 1986

Also “Winter Wonderland” and “Rumor Control” · February 1986 Winter Thoughts columns

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TypeEvent
Date1986-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
1986-02
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Modern era
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publicationseasonal-liferecreationcommunitycommunication
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Summary

Under its “Winter Thoughts” heading, the February 1986 Beaver Beacon published Jacque LaFreniere’s “Winter Wonderland” on winter scenery and outdoor and indoor activities, alongside Roger W. Laars’s “Rumor Control” on the social costs of rumor in a small community.

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These are personal columns, not weather data, recreation statistics, or official complaint records.

Sources

  1. The columns discuss the pleasures of winter, skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, indoor activities, and the social harm of rumor and petty complaints in a small community. They are personal columns, not weather data, recreation statistics, or official complaint records. 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 · 1986-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held fifteen-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Winter Thoughts columns.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-02_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon publishes winter-life and rumor columns, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-winter-thoughts-columns-1986/, accessed [date], citing Jacque LaFreniere, “Winter Wonderland,” and Roger W. Laars, “Rumor Control,” Beaver Beacon, February 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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