- Date
- 1970-11
- Kind
- Rescue
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityenvironment
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The November 1970 Beaver Beacon printed a humorous poem about Martha and Marie becoming lost after picking cranberries at a bog in the south end of Beaver Island. The poem says they built a fire and were found after local men organized a search.
Evidence and limits
This entry treats the poem as a source-qualified local account, not as a formal search-and-rescue log. It supplies no surnames, exact date, precise bog or route, official response record, or independent confirmation.
Open questions
- Can the two women and searchers be identified from other island records?
- Is there a contemporaneous emergency, fire, or community account with a date and location?
Sources
- Visually checked page 3 and remote OCR. The signed Beacon poem recounts Martha and Marie picking cranberries at a bog in the south end of Beaver Island, losing the road after dark, building a fire, and being found after three search groups entered the woods; Walt and Duane followed a yodel to them. It gives no surnames, exact date, map location, official search report, or independent witness account. 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 · 1970-11_Beaver-Beacon
- Held scan used to verify that this is a local humorous poem/retelling rather than a formal emergency report. The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and does not expand source-specific claimsdata1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1970-11_Beaver-Beacon
Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Two cranberry pickers are found after becoming lost in Beaver Island woods, 1970”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cranberry-pickers-rescued-1970/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 1970, “Lost But Not Forgotten.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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