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Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 2007

Also 2007 Beaver Island Homecoming · A Glorious Homecoming

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TypeEvent
Date2007-08
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2007-08
Kind
Celebration
Carried out by
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Followed by
Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 2008
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritagereligion
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The 2007 Beaver Island Homecoming included a dance, the Bud McDonough Softball Tournament (three Island teams entered, won by the Flight Deck), and Holy Cross Church’s long-running “Basket of Joy” raffle, in its 42nd year.

Program

Dance. Described as “wonderful again this year, with much local and imported musical talent,” without naming performers or venue.

Softball. McDonough’s Market, Ryan Smith Construction, and Island Airways were the three Island entries; the Flight Deck won.

Basket of Joy. Explicitly attributed to Holy Cross Church, described as a 42-year-old tradition, run for many years by Ed Wojan.

Evidence limits

The forum announcement supplies a date and venue for the dance, but the held September report does not give exact dates for the full weekend; the start_date/end_date remain recorded to the month only. The same August 2007 issue’s “The First Homecoming: 1932” cover feature is comic in tone (a humour column by “Fairway Frank”) and is treated as a repetition of the received founding narrative, not independent evidence for it.

Open questions

  • What were the exact 2007 dates and dinner details? Not given in the held report.

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, August 2007, "The First Homecoming: 1932" cover feature and "HOMECOMING PAR FOR THE COURSE."
    A cover line, "The First Homecoming: 1932," fronts a humour column by "Fairway Frank" reproducing a period photograph captioned as the Island's first Homecoming in 1932; comic in tone and treated here as a repetition of the received founding date, not independent evidence. Read in the in-repo data/ tree. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held fifty-two-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 · 2007-08_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Beaver Beacon, September 2007, "A GLORIOUS HOMECOMING."
    Reports the Dance as "wonderful again this year, with much local and imported musical talent"; the Softball Tournament, featuring three Island teams -- McDonough's Market, Ryan Smith Construction, and Island Airways -- won by the Flight Deck; and "the Holy Cross Chuch's 42-year old raffle of tickets on a 'Basket of Joy,'" which Ed Wojan has run for many years. Read in the in-repo data/ tree. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-09_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held forty-four-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 · 2007-09_Beaver-Beacon
  5. A contemporaneous announcement places the dance at Holy Cross Hall on August 11 with a $10 admission and support for Holy Cross Church. Follow-up participants describe the dance as successfully held and call it the 75th annual, while also describing concern that the tradition might be discontinued. The anniversary claim is community recollection, not independent proof of the founding year.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000943

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-homecoming-2007/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2007, "The First Homecoming: 1932" cover feature and "HOMECOMING PAR FOR THE COURSE." (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

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