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Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 2008

Also 2008 Beaver Island Homecoming · HOMECOMING 2008

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TypeEvent
Dates2008-08-08 – 2008-08-10
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
2008-08-08 – 2008-08-10
Kind
Celebration
Followed by
Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 2009
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Summary

The 2008 Beaver Island Homecoming ran August 8-10, with a dinner, a dance, and the Bud McDonough Memorial Softball Tournament, won that year by an off-island team, Armour Seal’s “Mighty Boppers.”

Program

Dinner and dance. Described only generally: “a dinner, a dance, meeting many old friends,” with no venue, menu, or musicians named for 2008.

Softball. Three Island teams entered – Island Airways, Ryan Smith Construction, and McDonough’s Market, fielding a “75th Anniversary Team” – but the tournament went to Armour Seal’s “Mighty Boppers.” The report notes “close plays were almost as common as home runs this year.”

Evidence limits

No organizing body or venue is named for the dinner or dance. A separate travel piece in the same issue mentions “the homecoming games on August 11th,” a date that does not match the calendared August 8-10 weekend; this discrepancy is not resolved here.

Open questions

  • What accounts for the “August 11th” homecoming-games reference against the calendared August 8-10 dates?
  • Who organized the 2008 dinner and dance, and where were they held?

See also

Sources

  1. Fresh Air Aviation advertised $25 seats from Charlevoix to Beaver Island on August 10, using available return capacity during Homecoming weekend. This is a first-party fare notice, not a ticket-sales or completed-flight record.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001224
  2. Beaver Beacon, January-July 2008, calendar of events (recurring listing).
    Recurring calendar entry across multiple 2008 issues: "Homecoming August 8th-10th, 2008." 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 · 2008-07_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The held fifty-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 · 2008-07_Beaver-Beacon
  4. Beaver Beacon, August 2008, "Homecoming August 8th-10th."
    The August calendar repeats the Homecoming dates and lists the bake sale, BIHS annual meeting, PABI silent auction, Gregg Fellowship Center benefit, and Jerry LaFreniere benefit as associated August events. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-08_Beaver-Beacon
  5. The held August issue scan confirms the calendar listing.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-08_Beaver-Beacon
  6. Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "ON THE LIGHTHOUSE QUEST."
    A travel piece mentions "watching the homecoming games on August 11th," which does not match the calendared August 8-10 dates and is not reconciled here; possibly a late game or a writer's imprecision. 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 · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
  7. 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 · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
  8. Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "HOMECOMING 2008" and "BUD MCDONOUGH MEMORIAL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT."
    Reports "a dinner, a dance, meeting many old friends, and a lot of softball at the Bud McDonough field." Three Island teams entered -- Island Airways, Ryan Smith Construction, and McDonough's Market's "75th Anniversary Team" -- but the tournament was won by "Armour Seal 'Mighty Boppers.'" 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 · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
  9. 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 · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026 · revised 7 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-homecoming-2008/, accessed [date], citing “Fresh Air Aviation Advantage Travel Aug 10th,” Beaver Island Forum, August 4, 2008. (and 7 further sources listed on the page).

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