- Dates
- 1983-12-22 – 1983-12-25
- Kind
- Transportation
- Where
- Beaver Island Airport
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationweathercommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
A late-December 1983 airport closure stranded Beaver Island travelers in Charlevoix until flights resumed around 11 a.m. on Christmas Day, according to the January 1984 Beaver Beacon.
Evidence limits
This is a community travel account, not an airport, weather, or passenger record.
Sources
- Reports the airport closed from Thursday until Christmas Day, leaving islanders and relatives waiting in Charlevoix, including six members of the Cole family and Raymond Cole after travel from Barrow, Alaska; planes resumed around 11 a.m. Christmas Day and travelers moved between island and mainland despite drifting roads. It is a community travel account, not an airport closure log, weather dataset, or passenger manifest. 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 · 1984-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Christmas travel report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1984-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Christmas travel is disrupted by a Beaver Island airport closure, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-christmas-airport-closure-1983/, accessed [date], citing “So Near Yet So Far,” Beaver Beacon, January 1984. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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