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Interview With Melissa Fay Greene

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Melissa Fay Greene is the author of "Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster" a book published in 2004 about the 1958 Springhill Mine Disaster. Ms. Greene is an accomplished American author and National Book Award finalist. This website contains an interview transcript, among the questions asked is why the author wanted to write a book about a tragedy over forty years old.

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disasters, mining, survival, coal mining, miners, nova scotia

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1958, bump, explosion, canadian disasters, last man out: the story of the springhill mine disaster, melissa fay greene, mining disasters, springhill, springhill mining disasters, town of springhill, springhill mine disaster, 1958
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Primary Sources
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