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October 12, Coal Miners Day and new beginnings.

Today is October 12th, Coal Miners Day. It used to be a big deal in Illinois, a day of commemoration when thousands of miners took a day off from work, joining their families to  celebrate the heritage...

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Working Women’s History Project raises nearly $7000 for Mother Jones Museum!

On March 28, 2015 the Working Women’s History Project (WWHP) hosted a “Salute to America’s Most Dangerous Woman” at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago, kicking off fundraising for the Mother...

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Dig Where You Stand: Saul Schniderman & D.C. May Day Event

On May 1, 2015, a wreath laying ceremony will take place at the Mother Jones Historic Marker in Adelphi Maryland, near Washington, D.C., near the place where Mother Jones died. This ceremony is hosted...

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Open House at the New MOTHER JONES MUSEUM

You are invited to an Open House at the Mother Jones Museum on June 20 and 21, in Mt. Olive Illinois. The Open House will give visitors a sneak peak of the plans for the museum, which is still...

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Enthusiastic Open House for the New Mother Jones Museum

An enthusiastic group of visitors came to the open house event for the new museum. At least 165 streamed through following the re-dedication of the Mother Jones Monument on June 20  and during the 2...

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Bernard and Geltrude Verna in the Colorado Coalfield War 1912-1914

The Mother Jones Museum and the Mother Jones Heritage Project seek to preserve the memory of stories that might otherwise be lost. We are lucky to learn of the story of Bernard and Geltrude Verna. It...

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Mother Jones Museum and Heritage Project December Newsletter

Taking Stock of 2015 & Looking forward to Making History in 2016 2015 was a rewarding kickoff year for us. We are grateful to all of the donors and volunteers who have worked with us to recover and...

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Join us for a May Day celebration at Mother Jones Museum

A series of exhibits, talks and performances will be featured at the new Mother Jones Museum on Saturday April 30.  FREE, but please rsvp to motherjones1930@hotmail.com if you plan on coming, or let us...

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Mother Jones and the Labor Day Association

Mother Jones would be glad that the workers in southern Indiana keep labor  traditions going and embrace and tell history as they do so. The union activists of Indiana’s  Labor Day Association have a...

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“United Mind Workers” SIU-E faculty celebrate their new union at Mother Jones...

On Labor Day, core organizers of the new faculty union at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville came to the Mother Jones monument in Mt. Olive to commemorate and celebrate (yes, with the...

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October events in Mt. Olive and Springfield, Illinois

Mark your calendars and join us!  More details to follow October 6-7–Springfield, IL  Illinois History Conference We will be at the Illinois History Conference Session on October 7 conference16 October...

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Mother Jones visits Debs

The Mother Jones Heritage Project has been developing ties with the Eugene V. Debs Foundation, just as Mother Jones and Debs did in the past. The Midwest orbit from Terre Haute to Chicago and Mount...

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Kate Klimut & Jim Schoppman Bring Talent, Commitment & Heritage To Mother...

Early this year, Marc Albrecht, an old friend from St. Louis and an Illinois Education Association representative for Mt. Olive, contacted me to suggest I contact Kate Klimut and Jim Schoppman, who I...

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Lump of Coal

I’ve been thinking about Santa Claus and the lump of coal threat from folklore. Thinking about it in relationship to this month, which is the anniversary of one of the highest miner death tolls in a...

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Auld Lang Syne to Four We Lost This year

At year’s end, we pause to reflect on those we have lost and commemorate their lives.  John Keiser John Keiser, a native of Mt. Olive who did so much to keep the spirit-thread of history of the area...

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Bloomington’s Wildest Union Night a Century Ago

Bloomington, Illinois had its wildest labor night a century ago, July 5, 1917, with famed labor organizer Mary “Mother Jones” (1837-1930) stoking striking transit workers.  A night of mayhem brought...

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Coalfield/Mother Jones Marker & Indoor Exhibit, Illinois Humanities grant

The marker, unveiled. It is on a temporary installation footing. Final installation later this week. Credit: Joseph Rathke. More photos in gallery at end of blog. We are proud to announce our new I-55...

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The Spirit of Two Irish Rebelwomen, 1918 & 2018

One hundred years ago,   Mother Jones and Irish feminist rebel Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington spoke at a what was considered a subversive meeting in San Francisco, on a mission to free an Irish-American...

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Ireland’s Ambassador Visits Mother Jones Monument

Daniel Mulhall, Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States, was in St. Louis last week. An unexpected break in his schedule allowed an opportunity, arranged by Brian O’Brien, Ireland’s Consul General to...

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Women of Labor at Mother Jones Monument

Since 2015, Mother Jones has become a growing part of the Regina V. Polk Women’s Leadership Conference, one of the great educational experiences available to emerging women labor activists in Illinois,...

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