- Date
- 1986-06
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationpublicationheritagecommunityfamily
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In a June 1986 letter, Dorothy Johnston recalled helping form and mail the first Beaver Beacon and described plans to return to Beaver Island after about thirty years.
Evidence limits
This is a signed reminiscence, not an organizational founding record, complete staff list, or independent oral-history transcript.
Sources
- Publishes Dorothy Johnston’s recollection that she and others formed the first Beaver Beacon and mailed it, along with her planned return to Beaver Island after roughly thirty years and memories of island-connected friends. It is a signed reminiscence, not an organizational founding record, complete staff list, or independent oral-history transcript. 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 · 1986-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nineteen-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Johnston letter.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Dorothy Johnston recalls helping form the first Beaver Beacon, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-beacon-dorothy-johnston-return-letter-1986/, accessed [date], citing Dear Friends, Dorothy Johnston, Beaver Beacon, June 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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