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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2024-07-07-1004302011699970

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2024-07-07 14:00:18

A shingle-sided wooden museum building, interpretive sign, walkway, and promotional text for a maritime program.

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2024-07-07 14:00:18. Caption as posted: "Marine Museum Monday is back on for next week. At noon, a fun and informative lucnh hour chat will be at the Marine Museum. Feel free to bring your lunch and enjoy!"

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A shingle-sided wooden building stands behind a wooden walkway and railing, with trees surrounding it. A large green interpretive sign occupies the left foreground, and dark translucent banners with white promotional lettering appear across the top and bottom of the image. A small sign is mounted beside the building’s doorway.

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MARINE MUSEUM MONDAY’S
June 17-August 12
NOON

BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Fishing Village

From the 1870s to the 1940s, the Beaver Archipelago was the center of Lake Michigan’s fishing activity. Paradise Bay was full of fishing boats, docks, net sheds, net reels, fish-box mills, and ice houses. As the fish tugs returned in the late afternoon, those living in St. James could distinguish the boats by the hum of their engines. When overfishing, the abandonment of the stocking program, and the lamprey eel decimated commercial fishing, the population of Beaver Island dropped below 200. Since then it has grown as a center for cultural arts; thanks to events such as Museum Week, Baroque on Beaver, MAD Camp, and the Music Fest, which have attracted new residents and visitors.

Join us for a lunch-hour chat. Pack a lunch and enjoy listening to a variety of Maritime presentations. If you have any suggestions, feel free to email us at director@beaverislandhistory.org

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The catalogue record identifies this as a photograph posted to the Beaver Island Historical Society Facebook page on 2024-07-07. The recorded caption promotes a lunch-hour chat at the Marine Museum and contains the misspelling “lucnh.”

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The text on the small sign beside the doorway is not fully legible. Some wording in the interpretive-sign paragraph may be difficult to distinguish at this resolution.

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Why this archive publishes it. Public Facebook groups and pages run by island organisations and residents. Each item credits the poster by name and links to the original post. Removal on request.

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1004302011699970&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
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2025-04-29
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2024-07-07 14:00:18”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2024-07-07-1004302011699970/. copy retrieved 2025-04-29.

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