- Date
- 1979-12-23
- Kind
- Transportation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationmaritimeweathercommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
American Girl carried about 25 stranded Christmas travelers and their packages, dogs, and cat from fog-bound Charlevoix to Beaver Island on December 23, 1979.
Evidence and limits
This is a participant account, not a voyage log, manifest, weather record, or Coast Guard file.
Sources
- Publishes Roger Sommer’s first-person account of about 25 people, packages, two dogs, and a cat traveling from fog-bound Charlevoix to Beaver Island aboard Captain John Gillespie’s American Girl. It is a participant account, not a voyage log, manifest, weather record, or Coast Guard file. 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 · 1979-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Christmas crossing account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-12_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “American Girl carries stranded Christmas travelers through fog, 1979”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-christmas-refugee-boat-1979/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1979, “The Christmas Refugee Trip.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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