- Date
- 1986
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritagecommunityfamilyenvironmentcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Elaine West’s October 1986 Beaver Beacon essay remembers Beaver Island through family, childhood friendships, landscape, island history, and summer visits.
Evidence limits
This is a personal literary and memory account, not a travel log, oral-history transcript, attendance record, or independently verified historical survey.
Sources
- Publishes a personal essay about visiting Beaver Island with childhood friends, family celebration, Donegal Bay, Mormon barns, island history, landscapes, fishing, and leaving the island. It is a personal literary and memory account, not a travel log, oral-history transcript, attendance record, or independently verified historical survey. 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 · 1986-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fourteen-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the essay.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Elaine West reflects on Beaver Island, family, and memory, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-why-god-gave-us-memories-1986/, accessed [date], citing Elaine West, “Why God Gave Us Memories,” Beaver Beacon, October 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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