song "Hard Work" on their 2006 album Dance Like Flames. In 2008, Brian Vardigans wrote a song entitled "Springhill" that was sung at the 50th anniversary ceremonies for the victims of the 1958 bump on October 23, 2008. In literature Leonard Lerner's 1960 book Miracle at Springhill is about the 1958 bump. Richard Brautigan wrote a poem entitled "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster", published in 1968, about the 1958 bump. On the CBC Radio show The Vinyl Cafe, host Stuart McLean tells one of his popular "Dave and Morley" fictitious stories from the perspective of Dave's mother and the tale of how Dave's uncle died in the 1958 disaster. Alistair MacLeod's short story "The Vastness of the Dark" features the narrator passing through Springhill in 1960, and recalling the disasters and the efforts of his mining community to retrieve the survivors. In 2003 Melissa Fay Greene wrote Last Man Out: the Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster, a riveting biographical reconstruction based on survivor interviews. A 2014 book by Cheryl McKay, Spirit of Springhill: Miners, Wives, Widows, Rescuers and Their Children Tell True Stories of Springhill's Coal Mining Disasters, relates to the 1956 explosion, to the 1957 Main Street fire, and to the 1958 bump. A 2014 fictionalized novel by Cheryl McKay, Song of Springhill – A Love Story: An Inspirational Romance Based on Historical Events relates to the 1958 bump. The character of Isaak Revere in the novel is based on Maurice Ruddick. In film The disaster is indirectly referenced in the Disney 1961 animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians. After the puppies are stolen, there is an image of a newspaper front page; under the headline "15 puppies are dognapped from home", there is an account of the 1958 bump. See also William Davis Miners' Memorial Day Further reading Neil V. Rosenberg, "The Springhill Mine Disaster Songs: Class, Memory, and Persistence in Canadian Folksong", Northeast Folklore (2001), Vol. 35, pp 153–187. References SOS! Canadian Disasters, a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada External links Account from the March 20, 1891, Springhill News (Wayback Machine) Springhill, NS Coal Mine Explosion Disaster, Feb 1891, GenDisasters.com 1956 Explosion – account from Dr. Arnold Burden (Wayback Machine) Springhill, NS Mine Explosion, Nov 1956, GenDisasters.com 1958 Bump – account from Dr. Arnold Burden (Wayback Machine) Springhill, NS Mine Disaster, October 1958, GenDisasters.com CBC Digital Archives – Springhill Mining