Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon (1966-05)

Summary

This source-body record preserves one locally grounded Fox Islands mention. It is an evidence node, not an event claim: generic references remain generic unless a separate curated activity article names a source-specific activity.

Indexed context

rain up with two engines and make four trips a day. During the summer months tugs would tow booms of logs up from the head to feed the mill. At this rate it was no wonder the timber was taken off so fast. From 1915 to 1935, my brother, Erwin, a hired hand and I commercial fished with the tug “Silver Star”. These were the days when catches were measured in tons, not pounds. I remember one December during this period, when we were caught off the Fox Islands in foul weather for ten days. It was freezing too hard to lift our nets, so it was just a matter of waiting it out and shifting anchor from one lee to the other around the Island. Between 1935 and 1937 I served with Captain Allers on the Conservation Patrol Boat No. 1. We patrolled all of Michigan waters, from Michigan City to Isle Royal, in Lake Superior. I went back to commercial fishing again from 1937 to 1940, with Ronald McCann on the tug

Scope and limits

The audit classified this body as local because it uses a directional Fox name or a Michigan/Beaver cue. Exact-body deduplication suppresses only byte-identical mirrors; alternate OCR editions may remain separate. Check the cited source before making a historical claim.

See also

• Beaver Island archipelago