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Beaver Island Fourth of July celebration, 1979

Also 1979 Beaver Island Fourth of July

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TypeEvent
Date1979-07-04
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
1979-07-04
Kind
Celebration
Carried out by
Beaver Island Civic Association
Followed by
Beaver Island Fourth of July celebration, 1981
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityreligion
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Beacon’s Summer 1979 issue reports, in a brief retrospective column, that the Beaver Island Civic Association sponsored a small children’s carnival and a fireworks display for the Fourth of July that year, and that Holy Cross Church separately held a dance and a Sunday barbecue dinner.

Program

  • Civic Association: a small carnival for children, and a fireworks display.
  • Holy Cross Church (separately): a dance and a Sunday barbecue dinner.

Evidence limits

This is the thinnest kind of held record for this series: a single retrospective sentence in a combined summer issue, with no specific calendar date beyond “Fourth of July,” no venue named, no attendance or proceeds figures, and no individual organizers or volunteers named. spatial_status is approximate because no venue is given for either the carnival or the church events.

Open questions

  • Was the “Sunday barbecue dinner” held on July 4 itself (which fell on a Wednesday in 1979) or on a nearby Sunday as part of the same long weekend?
  • Which venue hosted the carnival?

See also

Sources

  1. The issue is dated "SUMMER, 1979" and its opening column, written after the season ("September is here"), reports: "Fourth of July activities sponsored by the Civic Association this year included a small carnival for the kids and a fantastic fireworks display. Holy Cross Church also had a dance and a Sunday barbecue dinner." This is a brief retrospective mention rather than a full program report; it gives no date beyond the holiday itself, no attendance or proceeds figures, and names no individual organizers. 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 · 1979-06_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twelve-page Summer 1979 issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Fourth of July retrospective.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-06_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Fourth of July celebration, 1979”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fourth-of-july-1979/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, Summer 1979, season-recap column. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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