- Date
- 2008-09
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityenvironmentcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
While preparing a family home on Innisfree Lane for sale, Connie Wojan and her siblings created a roadside “It’s for Free” pile for intact items that did not fit their keep, trash, or donate categories. The story describes rapid reuse of the objects and the family’s decision to treat the pile as a community service.
Evidence limits
This is a first-person local narrative, not a waste-diversion audit or general claim about island reuse practices.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "The Lake Isle of It’s for Free."Describes Connie Wojan and siblings sorting a family home on Innisfree Lane, placing usable but unwanted items by the road for free, and observing that neighbors quickly reused most of them. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the reuse narrative.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “An Innisfree Lane family turns household discards into a free reuse pile, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-in-expanse-free-pile-reuse-story-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "The Lake Isle of It’s for Free." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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