Hi all-- hope spring has found it's way to your part of the world. Here in Elk Co, PA we are still gray and gloomy but hoping for the best! I spent part of the morning with a very enthusiastic work crew setting up a new Spring exhibit down at the Historical Society. Our new exhibit will be titled -"Local Industry Then and Now". Coming from a long line of coal miners I was very interested in setting up a coal mining display, but came up rather empty handed as far as artifacts. We have two of the cages that miners used to take canaries into the mines with, and I can get ahold of a carbide mining lamp, but can anyone tell me what other equipment a coal miner might have carried into the mines with him? Also, does anyone have any pictures of miners or mines in the local area of Elk Co., PA? If you do, and would be kind enough to scan and send via e-mail, I will print them out and give you credit if the pictures are used in the display. Also, for those of you who live close enough to the area to loan the historical society mining equipment, etc, this would be greatly appreciated, and the items will be returned to you after the exhibit closes in the fall. I will let you all know when this display opens, and the hours. Any comments, ideas and whatnot appreciated. Thanks, Sherry Jesberger