Local residents featured in PNC tribute to miners
Several local residents are being featured in a PCN tribute to Pennsylvania coal miners and the history of the coal-mining industry in the state this Labor Day weekend in a special series called “Tales from the Mines.’ The network will air these interviews beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday with new and encore presentations slated for Monday.
The Saturday interviews for “Tales from the Mines’ will include William Byrd, a former resident who now lives in Baltimore, Md., at 2 p.m.; Tim Seighman of McClellandtown at 2:55 p.m., Donald Keener of McClellandtown at 3:35 p.m., Lawrence Allamon at 4:20 p.m., Ramond Grote of Uniontown at 5:15 p.m., Joseph Sbaffoni of Fairchance, state Department of Environmental Protection at 6:15 p.m.; and Charles Karwatsky of Uniontown at 7:20 p.m.
On Sunday and Monday, PCN also will broadcast the Coal Mining Heritage Conference recently held in State College that takes a look back at coal mining disasters as well as efforts to preserve mine sites in Pennsylvania. The Monday segment will include Evelyn Hovanec of the Coal and Coke Heritage Center at Penn State Fayette, the Eberly Campus, speaking on “Mining and Coking’ at 1:10 p.m.
Also on Monday, new interviews for “Tales from the Mines’ will be broadcast, including William Malenosky of McClellandtown at 3:40 p.m., Oliver Wayne Martin of Dunbar at 4:50 p.m., Samuel Wood of Uniontown at midnight and John Burich of Greensboro at 12:15 a.m.
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