He looked like a giant four-year-old ready to play in the snow. He completed his ensemble with Scandinavian wool mittens, a red wool scarf and a hat lined with bunny fur. He showed off his long underwear over which were thick corduroy pants. before stuffing ourselves, again, with left over venison and all the trimmings.ĭan was wearing hiking boots with thick socks. On our final evening in town, we decided to take a walk on Main St. We had traveled from Chicago to visit Dan for the holidays. It was Christmas in this cozy town, with candles in each window, bells ringing from a steepled church, little shops closing early and what looked like an original five and dime store selling penny candy. A Group of Irish Miners called Themselves the Molly Maquires Because of the surrounding Appalachian Mountains, they used to call the area Little Switzerland. Mauch Chunk, now known as Jim Thorpe, was built as the county seat of Carbon County in the middle of Pennsylvania coal country. And I really wanted to perform at the historic Mauch Chunk Opera House. I wasn’t quite sure what Dan had in mind exactly, but I believed I could make a dance about anything. He was the producer at the Mauch Chunk Opera House, which sits on Broadway, the main street of this little town, about half way between the railroad station at the bottom of the hill, and the old state prison at the top of the hill.
“We could pack the opera house,” he was visibly enthused. The miners he was referring to were known as the “Molly Maquires” and the town is Jim Thorpe PA, or Mauch Chunk as the locals call it. “It would be great if you made a dance about the coal miners from this town,” Dan said.
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