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Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1990

Also 1990 Beaver Island Homecoming · HOMECOMING 1990

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TypeEvent
Dates1990-08-10 – 1990-08-12
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
1990-08-10 – 1990-08-12
Kind
Celebration
Where
Holy Cross Parish Hall
Followed by
Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1991
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritagereligion
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The 1990 Beaver Island Homecoming ran August 10-12, with a Saturday dance at Holy Cross Parish Hall, a Sunday dinner serving over 400, and a Basket of Joy raffle, despite cool and rainy weather over the weekend.

Program

Dance. Saturday, August 11, at Holy Cross Parish Hall; musicians Edward Palmer, Cindy Gillespie, Dudley Stevens, Danny Gillespie, Glen Hendrix, Karen Campbell, and Greg Sobie, playing to a large crowd.

Dinner. Sunday, grilled BBQ chicken with trimmings, serving over 400 people.

Basket of Joy. Raffled at 9:00 p.m., won by Buster Licavoli.

Shamrock Bar. Live entertainment Friday and Saturday nights (“What’s What”), and Sunday night (Kevin White, with Cindy Gillespie relieving him), running alongside the Parish Hall program.

The Beacon closes by noting that despite cool, rainy weather, “everyone, Islanders and visitors … alike, had a wonderful time.”

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper event report, not an attendance register or financial account. No organizing body is named for the weekend as a whole, so carried_out_by is left unset even though the dance and (by pattern) the dinner were held at the parish hall.

Open questions

  • Was a softball tournament held in 1990 as calendared, and if so, what were the results? No held issue reports one.

See also

Sources

  1. Calendar: "August 10 - 12: HOMECOMING WEEKEND, Softball Tournament, Dinner at Parish Hall on August 12." A separate item notes the annual Blood Drive is timed to draw on "family and friends back for Homecoming." Read in the in-repo data/ tree. 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 · 1990-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1990-07_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Reports the Homecoming Dance held Saturday, August 11, 1990, at Holy Cross Parish Hall, with musicians Edward Palmer, Cindy Gillespie, Dudley Stevens, Danny Gillespie, Glen Hendrix, Karen Campbell, and Greg Sobie playing to "a huge crowd"; a Sunday dinner of grilled BBQ chicken serving over 400; concurrent Shamrock Bar entertainment; and a Basket of Joy raffle won by Buster Licavoli. Read in the in-repo data/ tree. 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 · 1990-08_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held twenty-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1990-08_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1990”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-homecoming-1990/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1990, calendar of events. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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