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Summary
The March 2007 Beaver Beacon promoted the Beaver Island Ice Classic, inviting guesses about when a tower in the harbor ice would topple and signal the end of winter. The last guessing date was March 20.
Evidence limits
This is an event announcement; it does not establish the winning prediction or the actual date of the tower’s collapse.
Sources
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Sources
- "Ice Classic," Beaver Beacon, March 2007.Invites participants to guess when the Ice Classic tower will topple into the harbor, with March 20, 2007 as the last guessing date. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the Ice Classic notice and photographs.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2007-03_Beaver-Beacon
- PABI’s organizer posts describe the tower’s placement, the last ticket date, the prior year’s result, and ultimately report that the 2007 tower entered the water at 2:52 p.m. on March 28, with Eddie Wojan winning. The result is contemporaneous organizer evidence; the Beacon announcement remains the independent source for the planned contest.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000824
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Ice Classic predicts the harbor tower's collapse, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ice-classic-2007/, accessed [date], citing "Ice Classic," Beaver Beacon, March 2007. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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