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Frank Keeney, personal effects
folding pocketknife, folding straight razor, pocket watch, poetry book
Although he only completed the 6th grade in school, Frank Keeney believed
that self education was crucial to improving the lot of his family and the
miners. In her autobiography, Mother Jones writes of meeting Keeney as a
youngster, “I gave him a book one Sunday and I said to him, ‘Go up under
the trees and read. Leave the pool room alone. Read and study and find out
how to help your fellow miners.’ And he did it.”
This book of poetry was carried and read by Keeney during the strike while
he and his family lived in the tent colony at Eskdale.
collection of Chuck Keeney
