- Date
- 1977-12
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationpublicationheritagecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The December 1977 Beaver Beacon printed Gena Delamater’s child-facing article about Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, stockings, reindeer, and Christmas customs.
Evidence and limits
This record describes the newspaper publication. The article’s general historical and folkloric claims are not treated as independently verified biographical or religious history.
Sources
- Prints Gena Delamater’s child-facing account of Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, stockings, reindeer, and Christmas gift customs. It is a school-age holiday article, not an independent historical study of the traditions it summarizes. 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 · 1977-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page holiday issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the byline and printed article.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1977-12_Beaver-Beacon
Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Gena Delamater’s Santa Claus article, 1977”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-santa-claus-article-1977/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1977, “Santa Claus.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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