The Mine No. 6 Portal

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Adjacent to the History Wetlands and across the Ghost Town Trail from the Great Map stands the Mine No. 6 Portal, our Miner's Memorial, an opportunity to acknowledge and reflect on the hard lives of those who worked underground. The reconstructed six-by-twelve-foot mine portal entrance stands exactly where the once-bustling Mine No. 6 Portal entrance was located (the original opening was caved in for safety in the 1960s). The image of men in the middle of a shift-change, taken from 1938 home movie footage contributed by Vintondale resident Julius Morey, is now etched life-sized in black polished stone. Nearly one hundred people were on site for the unveiling, three of them men that had once worked in Mine No. 6 and entered through that portal. The interpretive signage is not yet completed, signage that will further acknowledge the many men that worked underground, but we already know from local reports that this may be the most powerful of all the images on the site.

Funding

Funding for this part of the Vintondale AMD&ART Remediation System came from the funding sources noted in the documents below.

Heinz Arts Grant, 1999-2000 PDF | Word
Heinz was our regional arts recognition piece, bringing their prestige to our support. That was a big help.
Rockefeller PACT Grant, 2001–2005 PDF | Word
This was a cold grant, with no inside contacts or information. We just read the instructions, applied, and received $140,000 over three years — and they paid us in advance! Rockefeller proved to be the critical funder for all three art installations and the Education Center as well. This application is sometimes used as a good example for good grant writing.

Documents are available in PDF format, viewable in the free Adobe Reader, and in Microsoft® Word format.

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