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4 unusual facts about Springhill


Marvin Griffin

In 1958, Griffin, who was a segregationalist and accused of being racist, took advantage of the intense media coverage surrounding the Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada to promote tourism to his state by offering a group of survivors free vacations to Jekyll Island.

Maurice Ruddick

Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Melissa Fay Greene

Last Man Out (2002) tells the story of the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia and the absurdist American white supremacist coda to the spectacular rescue of a handful of Canadian men.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

The title poem uses just four lines to draw a parallel between the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia and the use by the author's lover of birth control pills, in that both leave life, with all of its potential, buried forever.


Cadwallader D. Colden

Cadwallader David Colden (April 4, 1769 Springhill, near Flushing, Queens County, New York – February 7, 1834 Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey) was an American politician.

David Meeks

Meeks was reared in the Springhill Community in Faulkner County and attended first Greenbrier High School in Greenbrier but graduated from Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida.

Historic Richmond Foundation

In addition, it has championed the preservation of numerous Richmond neighborhoods including Union Hill, the Fan District, Springhill, Oregon Hill, Monument Avenue and Windsor Farms.

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

She attended Springhill Lake Elementary (Prince George's County Public Schools) in Greenbelt, Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C. Rowe-Finkbeiner moved to Columbia, Maryland where she attended Oakland Mills Middle School and Oakland Mills High School.

KTKC

KTKC-FM, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Springhill, Louisiana, United States

Nova Scotia peninsula

Coal seams are found in the western and central areas of Cumberland County in the Joggins-River Hebert basin and the Springhill basin, along with the Debert basin and the Pictou basin.

Red Hill Mining Town

U2 performed Luke Kelly's "Springhill Mining Disaster" which tells the story of a mining disaster in Nova Scotia.

Ruddick

Maurice Ruddick (1912–1988), Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster

Tiger Rag Magazine

The show airs statewide on the following affiliates: KDBS-AM in Alexandria, WNXX ESPN Radio in Baton Rouge, KLWB-FM The Game in Lafayette/Carencro, KFNV-FM in Ferriday, KJVC-FM in Mansfield, KRLQ-FM in Shreveport/Rustonm WSLA-AM in Slidell, KTKC-FM in Springhill, KTIB-AM in Thibodaux as well as WAZA-FM in Liberty, Miss.

Tom Colten

He favored (though he could not vote in the primary at the time) John Willard "Jack" Montgomery, a Springhill native and Minden lawyer who was challenging two-term State Senator Harold Montgomery of Doyline, also in Webster Parish.

Victor Ward

Ward worked for Air Canada for several years, eventually retiring and returning to Springhill.


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