- Date
- 2012
- Kind
- Education
- Carried out by
- University of Notre Dame Irish Stories project
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritageeducationhistoriographyirish-arranmore
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The University of Notre Dame Irish Stories project reported public-education and outreach activities alongside its 2012 Boyle Farm fieldwork. The preliminary technical report describes daily informal visitor access, a Museum Week open house, one morning of middle-school volunteering, and a public lecture at the Beaver Island Community Center.
Evidence and limits
The report records 55 signatures in a site visitor log over six field days and more than 60 attendees at the lecture. Those are project-reported figures, not independently audited counts or a complete attendance record. The report does not give exact dates for the open house or lecture, identify every visitor, or authorize publication of the archaeological-site location. The outreach is therefore recorded as a 2012 project activity, distinct from the dated excavation event.
See also
Sources
- A contemporaneous community exchange placed Antje Price at the Notre Dame dig on July 18. This corroborates active fieldwork during the 2012 season, but it is a sighting rather than an excavation log, participant roster, or archaeological finding.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005225
- Described in this archive: Notre Dame Irish Stories Boyle Farm technical report, 2012 excavation.The preliminary report says the Boyle-site investigation was informally open to visitors every day during fieldwork, included a Museum Week open house, recorded 55 site-visitor-log signatures over six field days, hosted an Elk Rapids Middle School teacher and ten students for one morning, and presented a Beaver Island Community Center lecture attended by more than 60 people. It does not give an exact open-house or lecture date, an attendance register, a complete visitor list, or a permanent public location for the field site.documents · nd_irishstories · 2012 · 2012-Technical-Report-part-IIIa1
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Notre Dame Irish Stories public outreach during Boyle Farm fieldwork, 2012”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/notre-dame-irish-stories-public-outreach-2012/, accessed [date], citing Tim Keeney and respondents, “Protar Lady,” Beaver Island Forum, July 18, 2012. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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