- Date
- 1989-01
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- historypublicationcommunicationmigration
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1989 Beaver Beacon corrected the source date of “When Santa Missed the Boat for Beaver Island” to December 20, 1942 and printed a reader’s account of finding the island through that story.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper correction and reader recollection; the original newspaper and complete archival research remain separate evidence targets.
Sources
- Corrects the story’s original Detroit Free Press date from December 24, 1954 to December 20, 1942 and prints Antje Price’s account of discovering Beaver Island through the article. 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 · 1989-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR and preserves the correction and reader letter.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1989-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon corrects date of “When Santa Missed the Boat” source, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-santa-story-correction-1989/, accessed [date], citing Correction to “When Santa Missed the Boat for Beaver Island,” Beaver Beacon, January 1989. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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