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Beaver Beacon reprints an Irish Echo island-history article, 1970

Also January 1970 Irish Echo Beaver Island article reprinted in the Beacon

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
Dates1970-01-10 – 1970-03
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
1970-01-10 – 1970-03
Kind
Publication
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
irish-arranmoreheritagecommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The March 1970 Beaver Beacon reprinted an article from the January 10, 1970 Irish Echo, identified as Joe Murphy’s “The Spotlight” column. The Beacon said the article had been sent by Katherine Burton of Harbor Springs.

Evidence and limits

This record documents the Beacon’s reprint. The reprinted excerpt is not, by itself, independent archival proof of every historical claim in the article.

Sources

  1. Reprints an article from the January 10, 1970 Irish Echo, sent by Katherine Burton, and identifies it as Joe Murphy’s “The Spotlight” column; the Beacon excerpt is a newspaper reprint rather than independent archival documentation of every historical claim.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1970-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published reprint.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1970-03_Beaver-Beacon

Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon reprints an Irish Echo island-history article, 1970”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-irish-echo-spotlight-reprint-1970/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1970, “Irish Echo.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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