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25 Jul

In the news: Upper Big Branch Memorial

David | July 25th, 2012

Rob Dinsmore, an alumni of the Davis College’s landscape architecture program currently working at Chapman Technical Group in St. Albans, talks to the Charleston Daily Mail about his work on a memorial for the 29 miners killed in the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster:

“Initially I felt the magnitude of what happened . . . it was a disaster on a national scale. I felt it needed something more prominent,” Dinsmore said.

He sat down at his computer and without a word to anyone started laying down ideas for a monument.

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