- Date
- 1981-09
- Kind
- Publication
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- music-folkloreheritagepublicationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September–October 1981 Beaver Beacon published Eleanor LaFreniere’s “A Beaver Island Daughter,” a song that uses a familiar country-song melody to express island memory, family, history, work, faith, and continuity.
Evidence limits
The song is a cultural source and preserves the author’s framing and memory; its historical references are not treated as independently verified facts.
Sources
- Prints LaFreniere's island song to the melody of “A Coal Miner's Daughter.” Its verses recall Beaver Harbor, King Strang and the Mormon arrival, Irish descendants, lamprey eels, sailors, World War II, island doctors, Holy Cross Church, businesses, the August Dinner, and newcomers. It is a community cultural expression, not an independently verified historical account of each claim. 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 · 1981-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fourteen-page PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the song publication.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Eleanor LaFreniere publishes “A Beaver Island Daughter”, 1981”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-daughter-song-1981/, accessed [date], citing Eleanor LaFreniere, “A Beaver Island Daughter,” Beaver Beacon, September–October 1981 combined issue. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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