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Andra Bryan Stefanoni: New book documents lives of coal miners She recalled a lighter story as another favorite: One miner had a dog named Nero, a Saint Bernard, and every day the miner’s wife put his lunch in a bucket, hung it in Nero’s mouth and sent him to the mine to deliver it to his master.
“The people who submitted information to the book were in their 80s, 90s, even a few who were 100, and many of them have since passed away,” Close said. “That’s scary, because they would have taken this information to their grave. But I got it.” She credits her husband, Terry Close, with the cover design; colleagues Judy Tilley and Mike Gullett, for design assistance; and Pitt Craft Printing, for assistance in preparing it for printing. She ordered 1,000 of the books, due to be delivered this week, and she is buoyed by the orders she’s received in her post office box and by phone. All proceeds will go toward upkeep of the Miners Memorial at Immigrant Park. Far from being tired of keeping history, Close continues to stay involved in it even now that the book is done. She is looking forward to assisting with the Arma Centennial Celebration in August. Saturday evening on McKay Street in Frontenac, she gestured to the passers-by. “I watch these people down here tonight,” she said. “I think they need to be taking photographs, they need to be documenting occasions in their lives. Someday, this will be history to look back upon.” 
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