Beaver Island Community School’s Island Arts Program reports music, dance, pottery, and museum trips, 1988

Event

Date: 1988-05
Kind: Education
Where: Beaver Island Community School
Carried out by: Beaver Island Community School
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: educationartsheritagecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The May 1988 Beaver Beacon reviewed two years of Beaver Island Community School’s grant-supported Island Arts Program, including poetry, Irish dance, quilting, theater, music, museum trips, and Native American pottery.

Evidence limits

This is a retrospective school and newspaper account, not a complete grant, attendance, curriculum, or artifact inventory.

Sources

“Island Art!!” and “Art,” Beaver Beacon, May 1988.
Reports poetry, Irish dance, quilting, Christmas theater, Grand Rapids Nutcracker and museum trips, an Interlochen Jazz Quintet concert and classroom program, and Frank Ettawageshik’s Great Lakes pottery program with local clay, temper, and archaeological finds. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held nineteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the arts-program review.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Community School’s Island Arts Program reports music, dance, pottery, and museum trips, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-island-arts-program-1987-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Island Art!!” and “Art,” Beaver Beacon, May 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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