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Beaver Island Fourth of July program, 1978

Also 1978 Beaver Island Fourth of July

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TypeEvent
Date1978-07-04
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1978-07-04
Kind
Celebration
Carried out by
Beaver Island Civic Association
Followed by
Beaver Island Fourth of July celebration, 1979
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The April 1978 Beaver Beacon reports that the Beaver Island Civic Association was already planning that year’s Fourth of July celebration, soliciting volunteers for the parade and announcing plans for a Craft Show and a Carnival on July 4.

Program

  • A Parade, for which the Civic Association explicitly sought more vacationer participation and printed a volunteer sign-up form addressed to “B.I.C.A.” for anyone willing to help with floats.
  • A Craft Show, planned for the 4th alongside the Carnival.
  • A Carnival, planned for the 4th.

No times or venue are given for any of the three elements in this announcement.

Evidence limits

This is a single forward-looking planning notice from the April 1978 Civic Association column. No held later issue (1978-06, 1978-08, 1978-10, or 1978-11) reports attendance, proceeds, a Craft Show or Carnival outcome, or named organizers and volunteers for the day. No venue is named for any element, so spatial_status is approximate.

Open questions

  • Did the Craft Show, Carnival, and Parade run as planned, and is there a later 1978 issue not yet checked for this term that reports the outcome?
  • Who chaired the parade and Craft Show that year?

See also

Sources

  1. Reports: "Planning for the coming 4th of July celebration is well underway. It is hoped that we can involve more vacationers in these activities; particularly the Parade... At this time plans are being made to hold a Craft Show as well as a Carnival on the 4th," and prints a tear-off volunteer form addressed to "B.I.C.A." asking for help with "the 1978 4th of July Parade." This is a forward-looking planning announcement; no later 1978 issue held here (checked through November) reports the completed program. 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 · 1978-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twelve-page combined April–May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the July planning notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1978-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Fourth of July program, 1978”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fourth-of-july-1978/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1978, "Civic Association News." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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