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“Home for Christmas Year” planning begins (1960)

Also Home for Christmas Year project

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

The May 1960 Beaver Beacon announced a future “Home for Christmas Year” project that would publish the families planning to spend Christmas on Beaver Island.

Evidence and limits

The issue supplies no roster, organizer, rules, or evidence that the project was completed.

Open questions

  • Did later issues publish the promised families, and who organized the project?

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 1960, “Attention All Former Residents.”
    Says the paper would begin publishing the names of families planning to spend the next Christmas on Beaver Island in the following month and calls the project “Home for Christmas Year.” It records an announcement, not a completed program or roster.