- Date
- 2008-05
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- High Island
- Carried out by
- organization/central-michigan-university
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationheritageenvironmentmaritime
- Within
- High Island
Summary
In May 2008, Dr. Harry Mika brought eleven Central Michigan University honors students to Beaver Island to study the local community and write papers. The June Beacon describes a boat trip to High Island where they examined the landscape and surviving traces of earlier homes, logging, hunting, and the Israelite settlement.
Evidence limits
The article is a narrative feature and does not provide the students’ papers or a complete archaeological inventory of High Island.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "High Island: A Dream It's All Destroyed and Built Again."Describes Dr. Harry Mika's eleven honors students studying the Island community, visiting museums and High Island by boat, and observing remaining roads, cabins, homesites, Lake Maria, and traces of earlier hunting, logging, and Israelite settlement. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fifty-two-page issue scan confirms the High Island feature.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “CMU honors students visit High Island to study Island history, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-high-island-cmu-field-trip-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "High Island: A Dream It's All Destroyed and Built Again." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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