- Date
- 1985-03-16
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Holy Cross Parish Hall
- Followed by
- St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1987
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- celebrationcommunityheritageirish-arranmore
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The only 1985 evidence found is a single community calendar line in the March 1985 Beaver Beacon: a dinner at 5:30 followed by a dance, at Holy Cross Church Hall, on Saturday, March 16th — the day before St. Patrick’s Day itself.
Program
Dinner at 5:30 p.m., followed by a dance, at Holy Cross Church Hall.
Evidence limits
This edition rests on a single calendar-table line, not a narrative announcement or an outcome report. No organizing body, program detail, attendance, or proceeds are given. The February and April 1985 issues contain no further St. Patrick’s Day material, so this edition cannot be corroborated or expanded from other held sources. The evidence is thin enough that this event is recorded here as unverified, though the calendar entry itself (dinner, dance, named venue, specific time) is treated as substantive enough to record rather than skip.
Open questions
- Is there a fuller announcement or recap for the 1985 celebration in an issue not held here, or in a different section of the held March 1985 issue not yet found?
- Why does the calendar list the dinner/dance for the 16th rather than the 17th itself, matching the pattern seen in 1982 and 1983?
See also
Sources
- The issue's calendar table entry for Saturday the 16th reads: "St. Patrick's Dinner-5:30 Dance Holy Cross Church Hall." The following day, the 17th, is separately marked "St. Patrick's Day" with no further detail. No narrative announcement or outcome report accompanies the calendar listing; the February and April 1985 issues were checked and contain no St. Patrick's Day material at all. 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 · 1985-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seventeen-page March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the St. Patrick''s announcement.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1985-03_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-patricks-day-1985/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1985, community calendar. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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