- Date
- 1911-05
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- publicationheritagemaritimeweatherfamilycommerce
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 2011 Beacon retrospective reprints May 1911 reports about weather, shipping, visitors, lumber and mill construction, orchard work, and Island businesses. It also preserves a Protar weather note about the May snowstorm.
Evidence limits
This record documents the 2011 retrospective and its quoted historical material; it is not an independent 1911 newspaper or vessel registry.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, May 2011, "One Hundred Years Ago."Reprints May 1911 notices about a snowstorm, the tug Margaret McCann, visitors and buyers, the steamer Sumac, construction of mills, an ice-cream parlor, orchard work, and other Island news; it also includes Protar's weather note. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the historical retrospective column.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon reprints Beaver Island news from May 1911”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-may-1911/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2011, "One Hundred Years Ago." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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