Summary
The May 11, 1945 Charlevoix County Herald reports that seven East Jordan FFA boys and their teacher, L. B. Karr, spent the May 6–7 weekend camping on Beaver Island. The trip included rain-soaked camp life, a baseball game, a picture show, fishing and cooking; the group returned on the Mary Margaret.1
The named boys were James Graham, Paul Bennett, Harry Dougherty, Kenneth Richards, Floyd DuFore, Clifford Cutler, and Lee Danforth.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-bounded youth agricultural-education outing. The report does not identify the FFA chapter’s officers, the campsite, the island landing, the boat’s operator or registry, or the boys’ full civil identities. It calls the Mary Margaret a ship but gives no dimensions, construction history, or service route. The record preserves the reported weekend and activities without treating the cheerful feature as a complete itinerary.
Open questions
- Where did the group camp, and which route and operator connected it to East Jordan?
- Can East Jordan FFA, school, or county-extension records identify the students and Karr?
- What vessel was the Mary Margaret, and what was its relationship to later island mail service?
See also
- Beaver Island
- L. B. Karr (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- James Graham (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- Paul Bennett (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- Harry Dougherty (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- Kenneth Richards (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- Floyd DuFore (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- Clifford Cutler (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- Lee Danforth (1945 East Jordan FFA outing)
- Mary Margaret (1945 Beaver Island FFA outing)
Footnotes
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Charlevoix County Herald, May 11, 1945, “East Jordan’s FFA Lads Have Enjoyable Outing At The Beaver Islands.” ↩
Sources
- Charlevoix County Herald, May 11, 1945, “East Jordan’s FFA Lads Have Enjoyable Outing At The Beaver Islands.”Reports seven East Jordan FFA boys camping on Beaver Island from May 6–7 with teacher L. B. Karr; names the boys, describes rain, a campfire, baseball, a picture show, fishing and cooking, and says they returned on the Mary Margaret.
- Charlevoix County Herald, May 11, 1945, raw issue OCR.Held raw OCR preserves the FFA outing report independently of the normalized Markdown rendering.