- Date
- 1982-07-04
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Holy Cross Parish Hall
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Civic Association
- Followed by
- Beaver Island Fourth of July celebration, 1983
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- celebrationcommunityreligion
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Beacon reports that Beaver Island’s July 4, 1982 celebration ran as planned: a carnival near the boat dock with games, prizes, a unicycling clown, and refreshments, followed by a parish-sponsored char-broiled whitefish and chicken dinner at Holy Cross Parish Hall, and an evening fireworks display jointly sponsored by the Beaver Island Civic Association and the townships.
Program
- Carnival, near the boat dock, 1:00 p.m.: games, prizes, a clown on a unicycle, refreshments.
- Char-broiled whitefish/chicken dinner, sponsored by the Parish, at “the hall” (Holy Cross Parish Hall), 6:00-8:00 p.m., reported as drawing a line of people waiting to get in.
- Fireworks at dark, sponsored jointly by the Civic Association and the townships.
Evidence limits
The report is a retrospective newspaper account, not an attendance count,
ledger, or organizer roster; no individual is named as chair or volunteer
for this year. The carnival’s own site (“near the boat dock”) is not
resolved to an existing place or structure article, so took_place_at
here covers only the dinner venue, Holy Cross Parish Hall.
Open questions
- Which townships jointly sponsored the fireworks, and who administered the Civic Association’s share of the program that year?
See also
Sources
- Announces that fireworks have been ordered and "it promises to be just as good as last year's," with plans for "a bigger and better carnival"; a calendar grid gives July 4 as Carnival 1 p.m., Whitefish Dinner at "hall" 6-8 p.m., Fireworks at dark. 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 · 1982-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eleven-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the advance Fourth of July programme.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-06_Beaver-Beacon
- Reports the completed July 4 program: "A carnival near the boat dock featured games and prizes, a clown on a unicycle, and refreshments. Following the carnival, the Parish sponsored a char-broiled whitefish/chicken dinner that was a huge success. People were lined up outside of the hall waiting to get in on a delicious meal. The Fireworks, sponsored by the Civic Association and the Townships were as beautiful as ever." This passage appears in the portion of the file correctly dated July 1982; the same physical file also holds a separately-dated July 1985 issue concatenated further down, which is not used here (see the 1985 edition article for that year's citation). 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 · 1982-07_Beaver-Beacon
- The held thirty-five-page mixed archive item is paired with the canonical OCR source; its first fifteen pages contain the July 1982 material and later pages contain a separately dated July 1985 insert.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-07_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Fourth of July celebration, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fourth-of-july-1982/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1982, Civic Association column. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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