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Sat, May 17
|Dimmick Memorial Library
Booktalk with artist and author of "Reclamation: From Coal Dust to Hope"
Join us for a presentation with Author Bob McCormick as he reads a selection of stories from his book and from his youth growing up in a ‘coal town’ during the 1950s and 60s.
Time & Location
May 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Dimmick Memorial Library, 54 Broadway, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, USA
About the event
Join us for a presentation with Author Bob McCormick as he reads a selection of stories from his book, as well as a discussion of what it was like growing up in a ‘coal town’ during the 1950s and 60s.
Reclamation: From Coal Dust to Hope-- hardcover collection of seventy images of Bob’s artwork plus seventy more complementary written pieces--celebrates the final years of the Anthracite Coal Era.

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