Multiple sources estimate the crowd grew to nearly 1,000 people for Monday's 50th Anniversary Ceremony at the Sunshine Miners Memorial in Big Creek.
May 2, 2022
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50 years later …
The memory of the Sunshine Mine Disaster will never fade
It is Idaho’s Titanic, our Hindenburg, our unfortunate chapter in the history books. But in a place that prides itself on resilience and the ability to come together as a community – there probably wasn’t a community that could’ve handled that situation better than the Silver Valley and its residents did five decades ago.