Name: Beaver Island Medical Auxiliary solicits help with a quilt project, 1983
Start: 1983-05
End: 1983-05
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island Medical Auxiliary solicits help with a quilt project, 1983

Also 1983 Medical Auxiliary quilt

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TypeEvent

Date1983-05

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1983-05
Kind: Fundraising
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Medical Center Auxiliary
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcarefundraisingcommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The May 1983 Beacon carried a short invitation to help the Beaver Island Medical Auxiliary with a quilt project.

Evidence limits

The notice does not establish the quilt’s completion, purpose, proceeds, or inventory.

Sources

Medical Auxiliary notice, Beaver Beacon, May 1983.
Invites readers to stop by and help with the Medical Auxiliary quilt. The short advertisement gives no design, beneficiary, completion date, price, or proceeds. It is a volunteer and fundraising appeal, not a finished-quilt or financial record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 1983, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held fourteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the quilt appeal.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Medical Auxiliary solicits help with a quilt project, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-medical-auxiliary-quilt-appeal-1983/, accessed [date], citing Medical Auxiliary notice, Beaver Beacon, May 1983. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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