Name: Eleven quilters hold a Beaver Island retreat, 2011
Start: 2011-09
End: 2011-09
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2011-09
Kind: Occurrence
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communityrecreationartstourism
Within: Beaver Island

Eleven quilters from western lower Michigan spent a week on Beaver Island in mid-September. They worked at four tables for as much as eight hours a day, mixed sewing sessions with bicycle and kayak outings, and completed projects that included work for charity. The article says the group left as eleven friends and that many planned to return.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 2011, "Quilters' Retreat."
Reports eleven quilters, ages 48 to 86, spending a week in September at a rented Beaver Island home, working on projects, touring the Island, and making charitable quilts including Haiti-relief work. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 2011, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held October issue scan confirms the corresponding OCR report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Eleven quilters hold a Beaver Island retreat, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-quilters-retreat-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2011, "Quilters' Retreat." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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