- Date
- 1988-07-04
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- recreationtourismmaritimecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 1988 Beaver Beacon announces a Chamber-sponsored Fourth of July raft race. Entries were to use logs, planks, or tubes rather than a conventional boat, with awards for appearance, speed, and originality.
Evidence limits
This record captures the announcement and rules, not the race’s eventual entries or results.
Sources
- Invites entries built from logs, planks, and tubes and describes awards for the sleekest, fastest, and most unusual raft; it explicitly says the craft may not be a boat. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nineteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Chamber announces Beaver Island Fourth of July raft race, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-raft-race-announcement-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Raft Race,” Beaver Beacon, May 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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