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Michigan Radio reporter seeks Beaver Island accounts of James Strang history, 2015

Also James Strang Michigan Radio reporting visit 2015

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TypeEvent
Date2015-08-08
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
2015-08-08
Kind
Historical journalism and oral history research
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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historymediareligionoral-history
Within
Beaver Island

Michigan Radio reporter Sarah Hulett announced plans to visit Beaver Island on August 8, 2015, seeking descendants and community members who could discuss James Strang and the ways his story had been passed down.

The forum post documents the reporting effort, not the resulting story or the accuracy of later interviews.

Sources

  1. A forum participant linked to Michigan Radio’s published James Strang story, “How a Mormon king shaped a sleepy island in Lake Michigan.” This is a secondary pointer to the external story, not a substitute for the article’s own sourcing or an independent verification of its claims.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009593
  2. Michigan Radio reporter Sarah Hulett announced an August 8 visit to gather descendant and oral-history accounts of James Strang and how the story was transmitted. This documents a reporting effort and its requested source community, not the eventual broadcast or the accuracy of any participant account.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009196

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan Radio reporter seeks Beaver Island accounts of James Strang history, 2015”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-james-strang-michigan-radio-reporting-2015/, accessed [date], citing Pam Grassmick, “Interesting Michigan Radio Show and Fast Internet Service,” Beaver Island Forum, November 5, 2015. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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