{"product_id":"9780615990347","title":"Spirit of Springhill: Miners, Wives, Widows, Rescuers \u0026 Their Children Tell True Stories of Springhill's Coal Mining Disasters","description":"Springhill, Nova Scotia, a tiny town with a tremendously courageous spirit.\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950s, tragedy struck the mining town of Springhill not once, but three times:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1956 Explosion\u003cbr\u003eThe 1957 Main Street Fire\u003cbr\u003eThe 1958 Bump\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpringhill became known as everything from \"The Hard Luck Town\" to \"Miracle Town.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose miracles are the heart of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpringhill 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpringhill 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir stories should not be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"On Demand Publishing, LLC-Create Space","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013272289520,"sku":"9780615990347","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615990347_p0.jpg?v=1763602634","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615990347","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}