Name: Mike Barrett agrees to teach a college-credit poetry class at the Lighthouse School
Start: 2003-07
End: 2003-07
Location: Beaver Island

Mike Barrett agrees to teach a college-credit poetry class at the Lighthouse School

Also Mike Barrett agrees to teach a college-credit poetry class at the Lighthouse School

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TypeEvent

Date2003-07

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2003-07
Kind: Education
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: literatureeducationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Mike Barrett agreed to teach poetry at the Beaver Island Lighthouse School in a class designed to potentially earn college credit, continuing the school’s writing-focused programming.

Evidence limits

The notice does not state the final course schedule, accrediting arrangement, or enrollment.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 2003, “Island Writer to Teach”.
Reports that Island writer and Passages North editor Mike Barrett accepted a Lighthouse School poetry-teaching role structured to possibly earn college credit. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 2003, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the July 2003 report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Mike Barrett agrees to teach a college-credit poetry class at the Lighthouse School”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-island-writer-poetry-class-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2003, “Island Writer to Teach”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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