Pavullo nel Frignano

Commemoration of the Cherry disaster - 117th anniversary

14 November 2026

Pavullo nel Frignano (MO)

 Municipio di Pavullo nel Frignano e Sala Consiliare del Comune, Piazza Raimondo Montecuccoli, 1

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On 14 November 2026 Pavullo nel Frignano commemorates the Cherry mining disaster in Illinois, which occurred on 13 November 1909: 259 men lost their lives in the mine, many of them Italian emigrants who had left from the Modenese Apennines. 117 years have passed and the community gathers around that memory. At 16:30 a commemorative plaque in memory of the victims is inaugurated at the Town Hall. At 17:30, in the Council Chamber of Piazza Raimondo Montecuccoli, the historian and researcher Manlio Badiali gives a lecture on the disaster, accompanied by the screening of an audiovisual contribution with the testimonies of the miners' descendants. The day is promoted by the Comune di Pavullo nel Frignano in collaboration with the association Re-Memory APS.

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