HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 4/8/08

Mining is hard, thankless work, a hot steamy pit in the ground full of rocky dirt and grimy men digging deeper and deeper. Fraught with danger, too, I think, although Tony tries to persuade me otherwise. He can’t quite argue the fact that both his father and grandfather died either directly or indirectly from Sunshine Mine- his grandpa in the big fire, his dad after an injury led to hospitalization, then a fatal medication error. So of course the pattern could continue, at least in my morbid fantasies/ Kendramama , Soul Doubt. More here

HBO Nos (for Monday, April 7, 2008): 8431 page-views and 4795 unique views

* Haiku Trio /Tumblewords
* Scrubbing coffee cups /TUBOB
* Stuff /Slight Detour
* Now, go away or I shall taunt you a second time /PDX Pup
* Discovery /Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts
* A poem for today /Silver Valley Stories
* Props to Biden & Crapo /Wayward Episcopalian

Question: Have you or any of your loved ones been involved in mining in the Silver Valley?