Beaver Island Museum Week opens with a community pet show, 1989

Also Museum Week pet show 1989

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TypeEvent

Date1989-07-17

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1989-07-17
Kind: Celebration
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communityanimalsheritagetourism
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Museum Week opened with a community pet show on the Print Shop Museum porch, where children presented a wide range of pets and received ribbons or humorous special awards.

Sources

“Pet Show,” Beaver Beacon, August 1989.
Reports the opening Museum Week pet show, including children's dogs, toads, crayfish, birds, insects, a lamb, and other animals, with ribbons and special awards. 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, August 1989, held issue PDF, source scan.
Paired held twenty-four-page August issue PDF.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Museum Week opens with a community pet show, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-museum-week-pet-show-1989/, accessed [date], citing “Pet Show,” Beaver Beacon, August 1989. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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