Beaver Island ArchiveA primary-source archive & encyclopedia45°40′N 85°33′W · Lake Michigan
Colour scheme
Search

Event

The Historical Society advances the Bob S roof, oral-history, Heritage Park, and Child of the Sea projects

Also The Historical Society advances the Bob S roof · oral-history · Heritage Park · and Child of the Sea projects

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Dates2003-09-18 – 2003-10
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Dates
2003-09-18 – 2003-10
Kind
Construction
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
heritageconservationconstructionliteraturepublication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

At its September 18, 2003 meeting, the Beaver Island Historical Society advanced plans for a protective roof over the Bob S, off-Island oral-history interviews by Robert Cole, a Heritage Park display for Beaver Island’s first road grader, and a revised reprint of Child of the Sea.

Evidence limits

The report documents approvals and plans, not permits, construction completion, interview results, or publication of the revised edition.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, October 2003, “History in the News”.
    Reports September 18 approvals to pursue permits for a roof over the Bob S, send Robert Cole to Detroit and Chicago for oral histories, place a historic road grader at Heritage Park, and recreate and expand Child of the Sea for reprinting. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the October 2003 report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-10_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “The Historical Society advances the Bob S roof, oral-history, Heritage Park, and Child of the Sea projects”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-historical-society-bob-s-heritage-park-projects-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2003, “History in the News”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-05. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

BibTeX for “The Historical Society advances the Bob S roof, oral-history, Heritage Park, and Child of the Sea projects”RIS for “The Historical Society advances the Bob S roof, oral-history, Heritage Park, and Child of the Sea projects”