- Date
- circa 1964-01
- Kind
- Transportation
- Where
- South Fox Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- lumberingmaritimeheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
A Beaver Beacon reminiscence says timber was being cut on South Fox Island and recounts Johnny Malloy’s claimed winter crossing toward Beaver Island. It preserves local memory, not a contemporaneous event date.
Evidence and limits
Everything here comes from a Beaver Beacon issue, January 1964. Nothing in it has been checked against an agency or a vessel record.
the story is positive and points out the fact that love often times drives a man to action that under normal circumstances, he would never think of. Johnny Malloy was a big strapping lad in his early twenties and very much in love with an Island girl. Because of his size, Johnny had acquired the nickname of Johnny Buffalo. He was built like a pine stump and not an ounce of fat on him. He was a good man in the woods and timber was being cut on South Fox Island, so early in the fall, Johnny sailed to the Foxes to work. The work was hard and the days were long. On clear days he could easily see the head of Beaver Island, where his Irish lass was. A logging camp is a lonely place for a young lad and Johnny had made up his mind that when the ice made, he was going to bridge that gap. Winter was coming on with ice forming along the shore, and each day freezing out just a little further. Currents between t
Open questions
- Does a second source from 1964 report the same thing?
- Do the people or the vessel named here leave records of their own?
See also
Sources
- Fox corpus context SHA-256 52e008b1cf8cfded0082998aa6b6990ac30726d84f9d056772e7f9851a8f7395. A Beaver Beacon reminiscence says timber was being cut on South Fox Island and recounts Johnny Malloy’s claimed winter crossing toward Beaver Island. It preserves local memory, not a contemporaneous event date. This record preserves reported or retrospective status and does not add unnamed participants, coordinates, or outcomes.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1964-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-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 · 1964-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “South Fox logging and winter ice crossing in a 1964 local reminiscence”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/south-fox-logging-and-ice-crossing-reminiscence-1964/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, 1964-01. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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