History is shared by word of mouth, in monument and in texts. It is also shared through images.
From this, the community grew. Families gathered over the weekends and holidays. They gathered in living rooms and ballfields, and in doing this, they took pictures, dozens of pictures, and many of them are currently in binders in basements or on shelves collecting dust.
The Mining Centennial Planning Committee is asking residents to crack into their shoeboxes and albums and share their pictures with the community. The centennial of coal mining is not just what happened underground, but when the community worked and played, learned and laughed.
On Saturday, February 19 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. the community is hosting a community picture collection at Greentree Mall. They want to capture the days of mining through images families have captured over the years.
They are not asking for possession of these precious photos, only to scan them. They will be scanning a copy while residents wait.
The committee plans to share the photos with the public during centennial celebrations and for years to come.
