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Beaver Island Historical Society plans Museum Week and museum preservation work, 1987

Also May 7 1987 Historical Society meeting · June 11 1987 Historical Society meeting

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TypeEvent
Dates1987-05-07 – 1987-06-11
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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1987-05-07 – 1987-06-11
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Beaver Island
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Beaver Island Historical Society
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Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Historical Society’s May 7 and June 11, 1987 meetings covered museum repairs, insurance, publication orders, artifact preservation, and the sesquicentennial Museum Week program. Plans included a square dance, Treaty Tree sign, church-history exhibit, Michigan flags, and possible nautical and printing-press displays.

Evidence limits

These are newspaper minutes and plans. They do not establish that every proposed exhibit, tall-ship visit, repair, or publication was completed.

Sources

  1. Reports museum stairs and lavatory work, the Bob S. restoration, Protar House and Print Shop repairs, insurance and volunteer coverage, History volume publication and reprint orders, Museum Week plans, artifact-site concerns, a church-history exhibit, Michigan flags, and a nautical-equipment collection offer. 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 · 1987-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twelve-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Historical Society minutes.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society plans Museum Week and museum preservation work, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-historical-society-may-june-1987-meetings/, accessed [date], citing “Historical Society Meetings,” May 7 and June 11, 1987, Beaver Beacon, July 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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