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Added a few more pages including Active Industry and After Anthracite with some YouTube videos of interest. Edited the Wyoming Valley page with additional historical

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January 2025 Events

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The following list of Anthracite Mining History Month events is in chronological order as provided to the local newspapers in January 2025. Jan. 10 — EPCAMR

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In observance of Anthracite History Month, we are working on a new site to post events being held throughout the Anthracite Region.

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Jan 23; King’s College and the Anthracite Heritage Foundation, Public Program: The Annual Msgr. John J. Curran Lecture

Jan 17, 2025 Bobby Hughes

Featured Speaker: Anne Flaherty, The Kehoe Foundation, St. Leonard, MD; John Kehoe: “Molly Maguire” or

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Jan 22; Anthracite Heritage Museum, Public Program: Six Anthracite Region Personalities

Jan 17, 2025 Bobby Hughes

Moderator: John Fielding, AHM; Speakers: Lucia Dailey, William W. Scranton: A Man of His Times;

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Jan 20; Plymouth Historical Society, Public Program

Jan 17, 2025 Bobby Hughes

Speakers: Joe Slusser, PHS, The Tools that Kept the Miners Working: The Howell Mine Drilling

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Jan 19; An Afternoon of Anthracite Region Music

Jan 17, 2025 Bobby Hughes

Performers: Don Shappelle and the Pickups, Coal Mining Songs; Doug Smith, Jimmy Waitlich, Tom Hamilton,

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Jan 19; Knox Mine Disaster Memorial Mass

Jan 17, 2025 Bobby Hughes

Venue: St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (36 William St., Pittston); Time: 9 a.m.; Knox

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Jan 18; Anthracite Heritage Museum, Public Program: The Annual Knox Mine Disaster Commemoration—The Importance and Bright Future of Mining: An Overview and Exhibit

Jan 17, 2025 Bobby Hughes

Moderator: Bode Morin, Administrator, AHM; Speaker: John Voight, Section Delegate, Penn-Anthracite Section SME; Bryan Glahn,

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Jan 18; Anthracite Heritage Museum, Informational Program: An Industrial History Tour to the United Kingdom, May 12 – May 20, 2025

Jan 17, 2025 Bobby Hughes

Sponsored by the Anthracite Heritage Museum; A discussion of the itinerary, lodgings, guided tours, and

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