NMDCA News:

In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners.

Today, all that remains is a cemetery marked by a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions — and a vibrant community that still gathers by the hundreds every other Labor Day weekend for a picnic reunion on the old townsite, long after the town was no more.

The community is invited to join Pappas for an online historic talk related to the tragic mining events in Dawson, New Mexico, as part of the Friends of History lecture series noon to1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7.

Free registration and link: Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico and Its Twin Mining Disasters – Friends of History (friendsofhistorynm.org)