The Wicked Ones podcast hosts, Jen & Tara dive into the Italian Hall disaster where many lives were senselessly & tragically lost on Christmas Eve in 1913 at a gathering for the children of a mining community in Michigan’s copper country. Jen takes us back and shares with us what life & work conditions were like in these small communities created specifically for miner’s & their families. She focuses on the challenges they faced and the culmination of events that ultimately led to the loss of 73 lives that fateful December day that will never be forgotten in the city of Calumet.

This tragedy, a result of people standing up for their rights for fair treatment would not be the first, nor the last of its kind. Unfortunately, the fight for fair treatment and equality in society is a battle many are still fighting today.