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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
With the Monongah Mine Disaster Centennial Remembrance Dinner at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, at Westchester Village. Gov. Joe Manchin will be the guest speaker for the event, and state Sen. Roman Prezioso, who is chairman of the Monongah Mine Disaster Centennial Remembrance Committee, will also speak. Prezioso and Marianne Moran, director of the Convention and Visitors’ Bureau of Marion County who is also on the committee, organized the dinner.The dinner will cost $30 per person, and individuals must make reservations with the CVB at 368-1123 by this Friday. As of Tuesday morning, 90 people had already made reservations for the event.“It really not only affected the town of Monongah, but the whole mining industry as a whole,” Moran said. “It’s certainly not a celebration — it’s a very solemn occasion — but it’s a remembrance.”After a prededication of the Monongah Heroine Statue at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, visitors can attend a reception and a candlelight vigil at Mount Calvary Cemetery where many miners were buried.Monongahfest will take place Saturday, Aug. 18. Festival activities include a country breakfast in the Monongah Town Hall, parade, Christopher’s Buffet in the town hall, entertainment, arts and crafts, children’s activities, food vendors and fireworks.The remembrance activities will conclude with a Mass with Bishop Michael Bransfield at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, followed by a memorial walk to Mount Calvary Cemetery. Buses will also be available.A dedication ceremony for the Monongah Heroine Statue is slated for the week of Columbus Day. All of these events will culminate with the Monongah Mine Disaster Centennial Remembrance Ceremony Dec. 6.For information, contact Sen. Roman Prezioso of Fairmont at 366-5308 or Marianne Moran at 368-1123."> Tweet This Photo New monument adjacent to the Monongah Disaster historical marker. The monument commemorates the hundreds of women and nearly a thousand children left without their husbands and fathers after the Monongah disaster. So it is not mere coincidence that just six months later, the first Father's Day was celebrated in Fairmont, WV (the major town 4 miles from Monongah). MONONGAH DISASTER TO BE REMEMBERED A tribute will be held this month (August 2007) for more than 350 men and boys who died in a 1907 Marion County mine disaster. The Monongah Centennial Commemoration Festival is set for Aug. 16-19 to honor the miners who lost their lives in the No. 8 and No. 6 mines in Monongah on Dec. 6, 1907. Gov. Joe Manchin named an 11-member committee to lead the special events. The August festival will include a dinner with Gov. Manchin as speaker, a candlelight vigil at Mount Calvary Cemetery, a parade and a Sunday Mass at Holy Spirit Catholic Church with Bishop Michael
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