- Date
- circa 1973-12
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationpublicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The December 1973 holiday Beaver Beacon reprinted Jim Bishop’s “A Special Gift” and a Christmas poem. The issue explicitly reserved current Beaver Island news for the January issue.
Evidence and limits
This is a publication record for a literary reprint and an issue-level news boundary. It does not establish the story’s characters as complete civil identities, a dated historical event, or the poem’s full bibliographic history.
Sources
- The holiday issue identifies the reprinted story as Jim Bishop’s “A Special Gift,” followed by a poem attributed in the printed text to Rosetti, and explicitly says that all Beaver Island news will appear in the January issue. The literary narrative is preserved as publication evidence, not as a civil biography or independently dated Kitty O’Donnell event.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1973-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan confirms the holiday framing, story byline, poem attribution, and separation from the January current-news issue; it does not independently verify the narrative’s characters or events.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1973-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Jim Bishop’s “A Special Gift” holiday story reprint, 1973”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-beacon-december-1973-holiday-story-reprint/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1973, “A Special Gift.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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