- Date
- circa 1976-08
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationheritagehistoriographycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 1976 Beaver Beacon published a poem by Anne Welke reflecting on old houses, fields, rockpiles, fencerows, labor, and Beaver Island as a formed community. It is a contemporary expression of local historical memory.
Evidence and limits
The poem is a published cultural text, not a parcel survey, site inventory, or literal chronology of every landscape feature it names.
Sources
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Sources
- Publishes Anne Welke’s short poem describing abandoned houses, overgrown fields, rockpiles, fencerows, labor, community, and the costs of progress. It is preserved as a published historical-memory text, not treated as a survey of every site or a literal chronology. 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 · 1976-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue confirms the poem’s publication and attribution.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1976-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Anne Welke’s poem about Beaver Island’s past published, 1976”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-anne-welke-island-past-poem-1976/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1976, poem following “From the Mail Bag.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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