- Date
- 1986-09
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- craftheritagecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The November 1986 Beaver Beacon reported a five-day Detroit Orchestra Hall tour honoring Beaver Island quiltmakers Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham and a commissioned quilt fundraiser.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper cultural report and planned fundraiser, not a commission contract, completed-object provenance, raffle ledger, or event archive.
Sources
- Reports that Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham were guests of Orchestra Hall for a five-day Detroit tour, were commissioned to make an all-white quilt for a fundraiser, and received media and dinner introductions; the quilt was scheduled for a March 10, 1987 raffle. It is a newspaper cultural report and planned fundraiser, not a commission contract, completed-object provenance, raffle ledger, or event archive. 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 · 1986-11_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page November issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Orchestra Hall report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-11_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Joe Cunningham and Gwen Marston are honored by Orchestra Hall, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-joe-gwen-orchestra-hall-quilt-1986/, accessed [date], citing Joe & Gwen Honored, Beaver Beacon, November 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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