Name: Beaver Island Community School children learn island history from Mary Bert McDonough in 1998
Start: 1998-02-04
End: 1998-02-04
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 1998-02-04
Kind: Education
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Community School
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: educationheritagefamilycommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On February 4, 1998, Beaver Island Community School kindergarten through second-grade classes visited ninety-four-year-old Mary Bert McDonough for a “100 Days and 100 Years” oral-history lesson. The children retold her accounts of earlier island schools, travel by sleigh and wagon, homes, church, and music.

Evidence limits

The article preserves a classroom account and selected student retellings; it is not a transcript, school register, or independently verified biography.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, March 1998, “100 Days and 100 Years” at B.I.C.S.
Reports that kindergarten through second-grade classes visited ninety-four-year-old Mary Bert McDonough on February 4, 1998, and retold her accounts of school, transportation, churches, homes, music, and childhood on Beaver Island nearly a century earlier. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, March 1998, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the school history visit and children’s retellings.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Community School children learn island history from Mary Bert McDonough in 1998”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-community-school-100-days-and-100-years-1998/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1998, “100 Days and 100 Years” at B.I.C.S. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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