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This year we celebrate and hold tribute to
Women of the Coal Camps,
Heart of our Heritage!
Join us at the Whipple Company Store & Museum for special events all season. Experience, hands on, some of the ways a coal camp woman would have lived. Learn some of the exceptional ways these women brought their families through some tough and rough times. A coal miners life was hard and his job life threatening, but if you were a woman living life in the coal camps you found yourself with an equally hard task. These women were caring,competent,clever,and creative. These attributes kept the coal camps running as a community of prideful folks.
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May Event
Friday May 21st 2010 11:00 am- 4:00pm
Women of the Coal Camp, Heart of our Heritage
Dedication and Tribute
Join us at the Whipple Company Store and Museum in an open house event as we recognize and celebrate the life and times of
women who lived in coal camps.
refreshments,stories,music, photos, and an experience like none other in this century old company store where the woman shopped, worked and made memories that should never be forgotten.
The"Drucilla Kidwell Berry Rhodes" Heritage Tree Memorial
Born in a West Virginia Coal Camp 95 years ago 5/21/1914-3/1/2010
will be dedicated and unveiled at noon.
Hearts for the Heritage tree will be available, and you can have them engraved on site the day of the celebration. Leave a memory, or a special sentiment of a loved one. Names, dates, or initials can be ingraved on the hearts.
You don't have to be present to purchase a Heritage Heart. You can add a Heart to the tree by sending your check or money order for $ 40.00
made out to:
Whipple Company Store
P.O. Box 150 Scarbro, WV. 25917
Please include what you would like printed on the Heart. A photo will be mailed to you as the Heart is placed on the Memorial Tree.
Proceeds help fund the Appalachian Heritage Educational Museum's
interactive exhibits for children.
Photos will be posted of the
Heritage Tree Memorial as soon as it has been dedicated.
for questions you may call the museum at
304 465-0331 or after hours 304 266-0788
or email at museum@whipplecompanystore.org
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If you were, or know some one who was one of these courageous women, Please share your story. We would love to hear from you.
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