- Dates
- 1944 – 1945
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- World War Ii era
- Concepts
- militaryeducationcommunityheritagecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beacon’s 1995 retrospective says Beaver Island schoolchildren gathered milkweed pods during World War II for use in life jackets, with Dominican Sisters helping organize the project and distribute government payments.
Evidence limits
This retrospective is not a wartime school ledger or complete list of children and payments; its historical details should be cross-checked against wartime records.
Sources
- Retrospectively reports that Sisters Gilbert, Lois, and Agnes Clare helped organize Beaver Island schoolchildren’s collection of dried milkweed pods for wartime Mae West life jackets. 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 · 1995-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the retrospective war-effort article.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1995-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island schoolchildren gather milkweed pods for World War II life jackets in the 1940s”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-milkweed-pod-war-effort-1944/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1995, “B.I. School Kids in the War Effort (WW II).” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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