- Date
- 1970-10
- Kind
- Construction
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Community School
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Volunteers worked with the Sisters to scrub and paint Beaver Island school classrooms before the 1970 school year. The article presented the effort as an example of the Island’s cooperative public and religious community structure.
Evidence and limits
The account preserves the civic framing and work described by the reporter but does not provide a complete volunteer roster or project budget.
Sources
- Reprints David S. Broder’s account of volunteers working with the Sisters to scrub and paint classrooms and describes the school’s public and religious operating partnership.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1970-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published school-community report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1970-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island volunteers prepare school classrooms for the new year, 1970”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-volunteer-cleanup-1970/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1970, “Needed: Common Cause.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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