Name: An Elderhostel participant writes about Beaver Island and the CMU Biological Station, 1986
Start: 1986-09
End: 1986-09
Location: Central Michigan University Biological Station

Event

Date: 1986-09
Kind: Publication
Where: Central Michigan University Biological Station
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: educationheritagecommunitypublicationcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The November 1986 Beaver Beacon published Art Freeland’s “Ode to Beaver Island” and his account of attending an Elderhostel at the CMU Biological Station.

Evidence limits

This is a participant account and literary piece, not a program roster, course catalogue, or institutional attendance record.

Sources

Art Freeland, “Ode to Beaver Island,” Beaver Beacon, November 1986.
Publishes Freeland’s poem about Beaver Island’s landscape and history and identifies his participation in an Elderhostel at the CMU Biological Station at the end of September. It is a participant account and literary piece, not a program roster, course catalogue, or institutional attendance record. 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, November 1986, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page November issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Elderhostel account.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “An Elderhostel participant writes about Beaver Island and the CMU Biological Station, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-elderhostel-cmu-biological-station-1986/, accessed [date], citing Art Freeland, “Ode to Beaver Island,” Beaver Beacon, November 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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