Summary

Bentley’s public catalogue labels AFC SR130, original 7-inch tape 61, as recorded at the Beachcomber, Beaver Island. Its segment list includes songs and talks catalogued under names including Pete “Skinny” Gallagher, Loraine Palmer, Thressa Kennedy, Patsy “Donay” Gallagher, Andy Gallagher, Helen Pischner, Dominick Gallagher, Mike O’Donnell, Pat Bonner, and Ed Vandenberg. It also indexes song labels with maritime and island subjects, including “The Schooner Hesperus,” “The Lady Elgin,” “The Persian’s Crew,” “Schooner Hume,” and “Singers on Beaver Island and Pat’s violin.”

Those are catalogue labels, not transcripts or independently verified accounts of the works, people, language, or occasions. The catalogue gives no precise recording date despite the parent collection’s 1952–1960 tape range. Crucially, the 1952-era label “the Beachcomber” is not merged here with Beachcomber Tavern: the current sources do not establish continuous ownership, address, legal identity, or even that they name the same venue.

Sources

University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library, Ivan Walton Papers and Sound Recordings, public catalogue entry 1_bohfxjti, AFC SR130 (original 7-inch tape 61), retrieved 2026-08-02.
Described in this archive: Ivan Walton papers and sound recordings.
The public catalogue labels the tape “Recorded at the Beachcomber, Beaver Island” and lists catalogue segments attributed to named performers and speakers. It supplies neither an exact recording date nor a transcript, recording-session documentation, venue ownership, or proof that this venue is identical with later businesses using Beachcomber names.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Ivan Walton recording, AFC SR130: the Beachcomber, Beaver Island”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/walton-afc-sr130-beachcomber/, accessed [date], citing University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library, Ivan Walton Papers and Sound Recordings, public catalogue entry 1_bohfxjti, AFC SR130 (original 7-inch tape 61), retrieved 2026-08-02..

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