Ferry Welcoming: (10:30 am & 1:30, 4:30 & 7:30 pm)

Historical Museum Visit: (3:00 – 4:00 pm) Gathering at the Museum (Old Mormon Print Shop) for a presentation of materials. Check out the genealogy records (thank you, Jim Sunkes), historical artifacts and great collection of books about the island. Become a Beaver Island Historical Society member!

Informal Get Together: (After dinner 7:00- ish pm – 9:00 pm or later) Gathering at the Emerald Isle Hotel Meeting Room. Register, pick up a t-shirt and reconnect with extended family over snacks and coffee.
 

(nothing scheduled for the morning or early afternoon)

Suggestions:

Around the Harbor: Visit the Toy Museum & Store (fun for all ages), Marine Museum or Beaver Island District Library. Also check out the many shops, markets, pubs, restaurants in and around town. There’s even a day spa!

Around the Island: Visit the cemetery (lots of interesting gravestone inscriptions), go to the beach, tour the island by car (see the lighthouses!), tour surrounding islands by boat, golf, kayak, charter a boat, fish.

Memorial Visit: (5:00 pm) View the memorial behind Holy Cross with inscribed bricks for our family.

Mass / Group Photo: (5 :30 pm) Mass at Holy Cross (for the intentions of the extended family of Anthony and Sophia O’Donnell), followed by group photo at 6:30 pm or so outside the church if the weather is nice.

Evening Dinner: (7:00- ish pm - ?) Dinner and drinks at the Holy Cross church hall (distribution of reunion materials, welcoming by Joseph O’Donnell, dinner, awards and fun activity for great, great, great grandkids.)
 

Many people are staying until Monday, so feel free to tour about and visit with others.

Ferries back to Charlevoix leave Beaver Island at 11:30 am and 5:30 pm.