(LUKASIK STUDIO ARCHIVES) Deacon Francis Bradigan anoints the Knox Mine Disaster memorial during a past memorial ceremony at Baloga Funeral Home Sunday. (GREATER PITTSTON PROGRESS FILE PHOTO ...

PITTSTON, Pa. — Monday will mark 65 years since 12 men lost their lives in the Knox Mine disaster. Those 12 miners were remembered on Sunday morning in Luzerne County with a special mass at St ...

Ms. Calvey, 67, who still lives in Pittston, shared her story to several gathered at a forum Saturday on the anniversary date to remember the lives lost in the Knox Mine Disaster and reflect how ...

PITTSTON — Area residents took a moment on Sunday to remember the miners who lost their lives in the Knox Mine Disaster 57 years ago. On Jan. 22, 1959, 12 men died when the Susquehanna River ...

The seminal event of Anthracite Heritage Month, otherwise known as January – the Knox Disaster Commemoration – is next Sunday morning, Jan. 21, at the Knox Disaster Monument in front of Baloga ...

PITTSTON, Pa. — As families walked along the Susquehanna River through Jenkins Township and Pittston City Sunday, they were reminded of the Knox Mine disaster 64 years ago that changed deep ...

The cause of the Knox Mine ... result of reckless mining in the Pittston Vein, directly under the Susquehanna River, which was ice-laden and was rising at the time of the disaster due to an ...

held at St. John's Catholic Church in Pittston. Then, at 11 a.m., a crowd gathered outside the Baloga Funeral Home as a wreath was placed on a Knox Mine Disaster momument, which lists the names of ...

Excerpt from a poem by the late Caroline Baloga, published in 1961 on the second anniversary of the Knox Mine Disaster in remembrance of her husband, John Baloga. PITTSTON — Audrey Baloga Calvey ...

The calamity known as the Knox Mine Disaster exposed breathtaking corruption among company and union officials. It also drove a stake through the heart of what remained of the anthracite industry ...

A regional observance of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will take place in January. A variety of programs will be featured in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazle Twp., Ashley, Plymouth, Pittston ...