Hello! My name is Holly Wilburn. Sarah and I went to the West Frankfort Coal Miner's Memorial on October 26. The trip is 27.53 miles from school. It is about a minute from my house in West Frankfort. According to google earth the latitude was 37 degrees 53 feet 53.31 in. N while the longitude was 88 degrees 55 feet 44.37 in. W.

Sarah behaved while we were on the trip. We looked at the memorial and read the poems on the memorial. The memorial is shaped to represent "Little Egypy," which is Southern Illinois nickname. One enscription stated, "We can only hope and pray that this monument will always serve as an ever lasting memorial to all coal miners everywhere; those who work and live, those who worked and died, those who gave and sacrificed so much, those who gave it all." Coal mining has been an important occupation for many Southern Illinoisans. It has been a booming business in the past and is becoming more prevalent again today.