- Date
- 1956-03-17
- Kind
- Celebration
- Followed by
- Beaver Island holds its 1957 Saint Patrick’s Day celebration, 1957
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- celebrationcommunityheritageirish-arranmore
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Beacon’s April 1956 issue reports that Beaver Island’s St. Patrick’s Day program went ahead as planned despite a mid-March blizzard, built around a school-children’s performance called “The Irish Hit Parade,” shown to the audience “thru a huge television screen,” with music, singing, and a lunch afterward.
Program
The school children performed a set of “favorite Irish tunes” in costume for “The Irish Hit Parade”; Bud Left sang a group of selections with orchestra accompaniment; the program was followed by a lunch. Hubert McCauley is credited with emceeing the evening’s commercial announcements as “the hit of the evening.”
Evidence limits
The report does not name a venue or a specific sponsoring organization beyond
“the sponsors,” so took_place_at is left empty and spatial_status is set
to approximate rather than asserted against an existing structure article.
The same issue separately reports a Friendly Sons of St. Patrick banquet held
in Grand Rapids honoring a “King” and “Queen,” which is not this island
celebration and is not treated as an edition of it here.
Open questions
- What venue hosted the 1956 program — most likely Holy Cross Hall by analogy with adjacent years, but not stated in this source?
- Who were “the sponsors” McCauley represented?
See also
Sources
- Reports that a blizzard on the 10th-11th nearly forced a postponement but the road crew dug the island out in time; the program, "The Irish Hit Parade," was shown to the audience through "a huge television screen," with school children in costume performing Irish songs, a set of vocal selections by Bud Left accompanied by an orchestra, and a lunch. Hubert McCauley is named as "representing the sponsors," but no specific organizing body is named, so carried_out_by is left empty. 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 · 1956-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1956-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1956”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-patricks-day-1956/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1956, "ST. PAT'S DAY." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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