‘A’ is for Anaconda, Montana: A town that perseveres

There are as many as 17,000 bodies buried in Anaconda’s five cemeteries, some of the graveyards sprawling across hillsides overlooking the one-time company town, and you might think all those headstones an apt metaphor.

What could easily have been the kiss of death was delivered to Anaconda back in 1980, when the smelter the town grew up next to was closed forever.

Vince Devlin

Anaconda, Montana http://anacondadevelopment.org/

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