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Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1992

Also 1992 Beaver Island Homecoming · 17th Annual Softball Tournament & Homecoming 1992

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TypeEvent
Dates1992-08-07 – 1992-08-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
1992-08-07 – 1992-08-09
Kind
Celebration
Where
Holy Cross Parish Hall
Followed by
Beaver Island Homecoming weekend announced, 1994
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritagereligion
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The 1992 Beaver Island Homecoming ran August 7-9, built around the “17th Annual Softball Tournament,” a Homecoming Dance, and a barbecue chicken dinner at Holy Cross Hall.

Program

Softball. Nine teams competed, several named for Charlevoix-area businesses as well as Boyne City’s Prime Painters. Rain pushed Saturday’s games to a noon start. Prime Painters of Boyne City won 1st place, McDonough’s Market took 2nd, and Bayshore Steel took 3rd.

Dance. Musicians Rich Scripps, Danny Gillespie, Jewell Gillespie, and Edward Palmer are thanked for “a huge success.” Sue Heller won the Basket of Joy.

Dinner. A barbecue chicken dinner “with all the trimmings” at Holy Cross Hall closed the weekend.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper event report, not an attendance register or financial account. The obituary confirming Saturday, August 8 as “Homecoming Saturday” is incidental and is used here only to fix the date, not as programmatic evidence.

Open questions

  • Who organized the weekend as a whole? The report credits no single body, though the dinner venue (Holy Cross Hall) matches the pattern in surrounding years.

See also

Sources

  1. Calendar: "August 7-9: Homecoming Weekend: Softball Tournament, Homecoming Dance, BBQ Chicken Dinner." 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 · 1992-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. 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 · 1992-07_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Lists nine softball teams (McDonough's Market, Shamrock Bar, Bayshore Steel, Charlevoix Cinema, Paul Bunyon Lanes, Flight Deck Bar, Townhouse Bar, Swanson's K & D, and Prime Painters from Boyne City); reports 1st place for Prime Painters of Boyne City, 2nd for McDonough's Market, 3rd for Bayshore Steel; notes rain delayed Saturday play until noon; thanks musicians Rich Scripps, Danny Gillespie, Jewell Gillespie, and Edward Palmer for the Homecoming Dance; reports Sue Heller won the Basket of Joy; and reports "a delicious Barbeque Chicken Dinner with all the trimmings at Holy Cross Hall" closing the weekend. 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 · 1992-08_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held eighteen-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 · 1992-08_Beaver-Beacon
  5. Notes that Melvina Connaghan Harman, born on Beaver Island, died "on Homecoming Saturday, August 8, 1992," in South Bend, Indiana, fixing that year's Saturday date. Incidental, not itself a report of the celebration. 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 · 1992-09_Beaver-Beacon
  6. The held twelve-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 · 1992-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1992”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-homecoming-1992/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1992, calendar of events. (and 5 further sources listed on the page).

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