For those of you who would like to visit and have a tour of Montana Tech, I will be pleased to act as your tour guide for the campus while you are here in Butte. Over 100 years old, Montana Tech is world renowned mineral engineering based institution now providing educated and skilled graduates in a wide array of disciplines. Regards, Corby Dr. Corby G. Anderson QP CEng FIChemE Director & Principal Process Engineer Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing Research Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering School of Mines and Engineering Montana Tech Tel 406-496-4794 Fax 406-496-4512 www.mtech.edu/CAMP -----Original Message----- From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Linda Albright Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:04 AM To: Beara None Subject: Re: [BEARA] Trip to Montana & Granite Mountain Mining disaster Just a quick note from "Butte", for those of you planning to visit Butte, and the Granite Mountain Memorial, I would also recommend that you plan to see the "Miners' Memorial Wall" at the World Museum of Mining, which lies just behind Montana Tech. The wall includes names of all the tradesmen who worked in the various mines and associated facilities (Concentrator, Smelters, Railroads, etc.) and died as a result of an injury due to their work. It is almost complete, and should be entirely complete. I know you will enjoy it! Linda A. > From: homharr@mcn.net > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:08:37 -0700 > To: beara@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BEARA] Trip to Montana & Granite Mountain Mining disaster > > I noticed that the itinerary for the trip to Butte includes a visit to > the to the site of the Granite Mountain mine disaster. Prior to > visiting the memorial I would recommend Fire and Brimstone - The North > Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke. It is an easy read and > gives an interesting portrayal of life in Butte and Montana around the > time of Worlds War I. It makes the visit to the memorial much more > meaningful. It is also a "must read" for anyone with Butte roots. > > In 1917 Butte may not have been as welcoming as it is today. For > example, a few weeks after the disaster, Frank Little, executive > chairman of the Industrial Workers of the World arrived in Butte in > support of a strike. Late one night a group of nice men rousted Frank > from his room in a boarding house, tied him to the rear bumper of a car > and dragged him until his kneecaps were scraped off. He survived being > dragged behind the car but did not survive the subsequent hanging from > a railroad trestle. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live(tm): E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Faster_022 009 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message