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  • Spirit of Springhill: Miners, Wives, Widows, Rescuers & Their Children Tell True Stories of Springhill's Coal Mining Disasters

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Spirit of Springhill: Miners, Wives, Widows, Rescuers & Their Children Tell True Stories of Springhill's Coal Mining Disasters

by Cheryl McKay (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars (37)
Springhill, Nova Scotia, a tiny town with a tremendously courageous spirit.

In the 1950s, tragedy struck the mining town of Springhill not once, but three times:

  • The 1956 Explosion 
  • The 1957 Main Street Fire 
  • The 1958 Bump 

The Explosion took the lives of 39 miners. The Main Street Fire wiped out many of the family-owned businesses. The Bump, an underground earthquake, took the lives of 75 good men of Springhill.

Springhill became known as everything from "The Hard Luck Town" to "Miracle Town."

Those miracles are the heart of this book.

Springhill is a place with strong resilience, despite the tragedies that tried to take her down. The miracles that happened are nothing short of astounding, to see the hand of God show up and rescue men whom the entire town thought were dead.

In Spirit of Springhill, you will experience the town through first-person accounts of what happened back in the 1950s from the point of view of survivors and their wives, from victims' widows and orphans, from children of rescued miners, and miners who risked their lives to be on the rescue teams.

Springhill remains an inspiration to all who hear about it. This chronicle from the voices of the people of Springhill will help us preserve their history for generations to come.

Their stories should not be forgotten.

Author Cheryl McKay has been researching Springhill for over a decade, ever since her Springhill native father, Tom McKay, convinced her that the story of these disasters needed to be a movie. Cheryl's grandfather survived the 1958 Bump. He would have died in the 1956 Explosion had he not traded shifts with a friend. Many years later, accounts of her grandfather's survival instigated Cheryl's quest to unearth this heartrending true story, as shared in this book of interviews and dramatized in its companion novel, Song of Springhill. Cheryl is the screenwriter of The Ultimate Gift and co-author of Never the Bride and Greetings from the Flipside.

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Why share the story of Springhill, Nova Scotia rescues
Real life Interviews and Firsthand Accounts with people of Springhill
Song of Springhill - a love story: an inspirational romance based on historic...
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Song of Springhill - a love story & Spirit of Springhill - inspiring true lif...
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JNXEBFU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Purple PenWorks
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 13, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.7 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 134 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Best Sellers Rank: #951,887 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars (37)

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CHERYL MCKAY been professionally writing since 1997. Before creating, showrunning, and executive producing the multi-award-winning Season One of These Stones, Cheryl wrote the screenplay for The Ultimate Gift. She co-wrote the faith-based feature films, Indivisible and Extraordinary, as well as multiple children’s projects, including 5 episodes of Superbook and 40 episodes of the audio drama, The Wild & Wacky Totally True Bible Stories with Frank Peretti. In addition to film and television, Cheryl has enjoyed penning novels like Song of Springhill and the award-winning Never the Bride (with Rene Gutteridge), as well as nonfiction books, including Finally the Bride: Finding Hope While Waiting, Finally Fearless; Journey from Panic to Peace, and a three-part devotional series, 25 Dates With God. She recently published the Study Guide book (with Susan Rohrer) that goes with Season One of These Stones and the first two books in her children’s series, Potter Knows Best. Her desire from the beginning of her writing career has been to make an impact through words and change the world for good through writing.

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