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REACT “A Prayer of America” Monogah @ 1863 Appalachian Bistro
November 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
On Friday, Nov. 15, at 7pm,
REACT will be reading a new play at the 1863 Appalachian Bistro in Elkins:
A PRAYER OF AMERICA: MONONGAH 1904
by Tom DeTitta
The play is a dramatized account of the Monongah mine disaster of 1904, and the survivors of those that were killed:
The hope and optimism of the turn-of-the-century American immigrant story is turned on its head when hundreds of them are killed through the country’s worst coal mining disaster. Near the site in Monongah, West Virginia, the citizens of a small town in Italy erected a statue of the wives—children clinging to their sides—who were left alone in a foreign land where they didn’t speak the language and were removed from their extended families and their customs. Without a husband to provide for them or a father to help care for the children, they somehow found a way to survive. This play is their story. Commissioned through a $25,000 grant by the State of West Virginia Department of Community Affairs.
For more information, contact Greg Mach at mach@ wvwc.edu