Name: Beaver Beacon's August 2005 On This Date column revisits Island history
Start: 2005-08
End: 2005-08
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2005-08
Kind: Publication
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: historyheritagepublicationcommunitycommunicationenergymaritimetransportationenvironmenteducationgovernance
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The August 2005 Beaver Beacon’s “On This Date” column revisited Island news from ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty years earlier. Its subjects included the Carl D. Bradley expedition, biomass-energy planning, wartime milkweed collection, Museum Week, public access, health care, civic organizations, marina work, school and church life, fishing, the CMU Biological Station, Homecoming, and maritime history.

Evidence limits

This record documents the 2005 retrospective publication rather than replacing the earlier issues or independently verifying every historical item it summarizes.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 2005, "On This Date."
Revisits earlier Island reporting on the Carl D. Bradley expedition, biomass-energy planning, wartime milkweed collection, Museum Week, public access, health care, civic organizations, marina work, school and church life, fishing, the CMU Biological Station, Homecoming, and maritime history across five decades. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 2005, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held August issue scan confirms the retrospective column.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon's August 2005 On This Date column revisits Island history”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-on-this-date-august-2005-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2005, "On This Date." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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