- Date
- 2013-03
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Community School
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationrecreationweathercommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 2013 Beaver Beacon reported that Beaver Island Community School fifth- and sixth-grade students built an igloo by piling and tunneling through compressed snow during the winter.
Evidence limits
This is a short newspaper human-interest account; it does not identify all students or establish the igloo’s exact construction date or duration.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, May 2013, "Igloo, Anyone?"Describes fifth- and sixth-grade students piling and tunneling through compressed snow to make an igloo cave, and reports that stray dogs may have sheltered in it during a frigid night. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held May issue scan confirms the school winter account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-05_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island students build an igloo during the snowy winter of 2013”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-community-school-igloo-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2013, "Igloo, Anyone?" (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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