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Monongah Remembers:
Today, the entrances to the mines have been sealed with bricks and are overgrown with weeds. Father Everett Frances Briggs, a Catholic Priest born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts on January 27, 1908, was the head of a local committee which commissioned a statue made of Carrera marble to honor the widows of the Monongah mining disaster and to honor coal miners' widows everywhere. Father Briggs passed away in Monongah on December 20, 2006. The Monongah Heroine statue located beside the Town Hall, will be formally dedicated on October 9, 2007. [I was reading this on October 5, 2008.] A special ceremony will be held on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. |