Farmington Mine Disaster

St. Paul Lutheran Church goes to the theater:

The Fairmont State University Theater Department is holding a student-created production of Remembering #9: Stories from the Farmington Mine Disaster on Sunday, September 27 at 2:00pm, in Wallman Hall Auditorium.  Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at the Fairmont State University Box Office, 304-367-4240. 

Armed with information and digital recorders, the student researchers talked with wives, children and friends of the victims and survivors of the Farmington explosion. Seventy-eight people died in the explosion at the Consol No. 9 mine in Marion County on Nov. 20, 1968. Among the interviewees was Rev. Richard Bowyer, the long-time director of the Wesley Foundation House at Fairmont State, spent seven days comforting families and during those dark days in 1968. The transcripts of his and others interviews will be used to create the projection.

Please contact Pastor Brian if you would like to carpool to the event.