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February 1974 Beaver Beacon Mail Bag correspondence and literary submissions

Also February 1974 Beaver Beacon Mail Bag · A Peanut Butt Sunset publication

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TypeEvent
Date1974-02
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ErasModern era
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Date
1974-02
Kind
Publication
Where
Beaver Island
Participants
Eddie Eicher (letter_author) · Milt Bennett (correspondent) · Perky Nelson (story_author)
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Summary

The February 1974 Beaver Beacon Mail Bag publishes Eddie Eicher’s poem remembering Bert McDonough, a short note from Milt Bennett, a message from the 6 1/3 Club, and Perky Nelson’s story “A Peanut Butt Sunset.”

Evidence and limits

This record treats the items as published correspondence and literary material. The issue supplies only episode-level names and locations for the contributors; it does not establish complete identities, biographies, relationships, original composition dates, or independent verification of the story’s landscape and experience claims.

See also

Sources

  1. Publishes Eddie Eicher’s poem remembering Bert McDonough, Milt Bennett’s “Stings and Nectar” note, a message from the 6 1/3 Club via Barb Becker, and Perky Nelson’s story “A Peanut Butt Sunset.” The column is preserved as published correspondence and literary material, not as a complete identity, travel, family, or event record.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page issue confirms the Mail Bag material, author attributions, and printed story title; it does not independently verify the correspondents’ biographies or the narrative’s geographic and experiential claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “February 1974 Beaver Beacon Mail Bag correspondence and literary submissions”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-february-1974-mail-bag-and-literary-submissions/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1974, “From the Mail Bag.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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