- Date
- 2012-12-17
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityeducationcommunicationreligion
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 2013 Beaver Beacon reports that Beaver Island Community School students held a candlelight vigil on the Monday following the December 2012 Newtown school shooting, arranging candles on the shore and in a heart shape on a sandbar.
Evidence limits
This record documents the Island newspaper’s account of the vigil without reproducing details about the unrelated Connecticut crime beyond what is necessary to identify the occasion.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 2013, "Country Roads ... Take Me Home."Reports that BICS students held a candlelight vigil on the Monday after the Newtown school shooting, with candles arranged on the shore and a sandbar. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held January issue scan confirms the vigil report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island students hold a candlelight vigil after the Newtown school shooting”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-newtown-candlelight-vigil-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2013, "Country Roads ... Take Me Home." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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