- Date
- 1986-12
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- literatureheritageenvironmentcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Betty Duckworth’s December 1986 Beaver Beacon poem remembers Beaver Island’s waters, wildlife, plants, seasons, harbor, and the prospect of departure.
Evidence limits
This is a poem and memory account, not an ecological survey, oral-history transcript, or independently verified natural-history record.
Sources
- Publishes a personal literary reflection on island waters, birds, forests, plants, snow, the harbor, and leaving Beaver Island. It is a poem and memory account, not an ecological survey, oral-history transcript, or independently verified natural-history 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 · 1986-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-nine-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the poem.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Betty Duckworth reflects on Beaver Island’s seasons and departure, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-softly-may-i-leave-essay-1986/, accessed [date], citing Betty Duckworth, “Softly May I Leave,” Beaver Beacon, December 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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