Quecreek: Remembering the Remarkable Mining Rescue 20 Years Later
Posted by Peter Durantine on May 13, 2022 in | Comments Off on Quecreek: Remembering the Remarkable Mining Rescue 20 Years Later The site of a massive multigovernment rescue effort to save nine miners trapped hundreds of feet below the earth’s surface is today a placid meadow with a memorial park and a museum dedicated to telling the story of four desperate days in July 2002. “It’s been a life-changing 20 years,” says Bill Arnold, executive director of the Quecreek Mine Rescue Foundation, located at the rescue site, part...read more