{"id":206047,"date":"2026-05-30T05:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:34:07","slug":"3rd-annual-knox-mine-disaster-day-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206047\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd annual Knox Mine Disaster Day set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>JENKINS TWP. \u2014 The 3rd Annual Knox Mine Disaster Day is rapidly approaching from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at PLAID Community Church, 1575 River Road, according to event guide Billy Best.<\/p>\n<p>The official Knox Mine documentary will play continuously inside PLAID starting at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>There will be guided memorial tours given by Billy Best at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m., and 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Also on hand will be hay wagon rides with limited space available.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees can walk the trail to the actual disaster site or take the wagon ride by calling 570-991-7028 to reserve a space.<\/p>\n<p>Once at the disaster location, you will be able to stand at the actual spot where the riverbed caved in, essentially ending the lives of 12 trapped miners in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>There will be hot dogs, popcorn, snacks, and beverages on hand.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; JENKINS TWP. \u2014 The 3rd Annual Knox Mine Disaster Day is rapidly approaching from 10 a.m. to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-206047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}