Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-23 10:15:09. Caption as posted: "A Winter’s Memory Once upon a time, when winters in Northern Michigan seemed to be longer, and colder, and much more filled with snow, three young boys of Beaver Island lay sleeping in the upstairs bedroom of their family home, dreaming the secret dreams of youth within the deep silence of a frozen January night. In those days the harbor of St. James town seemed to freeze over earlier, and more quickly than in later years. By the dawn of a new millennium, a house-bound villager might look out over the encircling bay after New Year’s to see only a thin sheen of ice, or even open water. But i"
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A large leafless tree frames the left side of a snow-covered shoreline. Broad pale ice or snow-covered water extends toward a distant wooded shore with a few small structures. Dark tracks and cleared patches cross the snowy foreground beneath a hazy blue-gray winter sky.
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Subjects and keywords
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The archive record identifies this as a photograph posted by Suzanne Jule in a public Facebook group on February 23, 2026, under the title “A Winter’s Memory.” The accompanying caption is a winter story concerning three boys, a family home, and a harbor freezing during earlier winters; those details are not visible in the image.
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Provenance
- Held by
- Individual posters, credited per image
- Collection
- Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10170203010016337&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2026-02-23
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
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| Master | JPEG | 1,593 × 735 px | 189 KB | dc8660c35bff… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-23 10:15:09”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-02-23-10170203010016337/. copy retrieved 2026-02-23.
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