- Dates
- 1982-01-13 – 1982-02
- Kind
- Education
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- recreationeducationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Shannon Rafferty’s April 1982 first-person essay describes informal ice-skating lessons held on Beaver Island’s harbor beginning January 13, with children learning basic skills and skating tricks as winter conditions permitted.
Evidence limits
The essay preserves a personal account and approximate participant count, not a complete roster, lesson plan, or attendance record.
Sources
- Describes informal skating lessons beginning January 13 on the harbor in front of Rafferty’s, with roughly 18 girls and several boys, later divided into groups, and lessons held on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays as conditions allowed. It is a first-person recollection, not a roster or formal instructional record. 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 · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held sixteen-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the skating account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Shannon Rafferty teaches informal ice-skating lessons on Beaver Island, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-shannon-rafferty-ice-skating-lessons-1982/, accessed [date], citing Shannon Rafferty, “A Dream,” Beaver Beacon, April 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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