- Date
- circa 1975-03
- Kind
- Business
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- agriculturecommunityenvironmentfoodways
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The March 1975 Beaver Beacon reports maple-syrup production by Father Donahoe, Dave Gladish, Ed Ladd, and the Kenwabikise family. It describes different scales of collection and boiling, including Gladish’s experiment making maple sugar, and suggests that syrup production might become a community venture.
Evidence and limits
The issue documents individual activity and a proposal-like observation, not a cooperative, commercial sales record, production total, or organized community enterprise.
Sources
- Reports Father Donahoe’s backyard boiler, Dave Gladish’s third year of production and maple-sugar experiment, Ed Ladd’s new collection route, and the Kenwabikise family making gallons of syrup. It suggests the island’s abundance of maple trees could support a community venture, not that such a venture had been organized. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1975-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue confirms the production report and its prospective community language.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1975-03_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island maple-syrup production report, 1975”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-maple-syrup-production-1975/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1975, “Saps Running.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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