The Copper Mine
About this book
Dr. Steiner had once given a lecture with a live bat sticking out of his lab coat pocket. He ignored it as it crawled around his shoulders. He then flicked off the lights to begin a film, and basked in the nervous twitters and screams from his students. Dr. Steiner studied bats by exploring deep inside abandoned copper mines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. When he told his son, David, that he could bring a few of his friends with him on his next trip, all of the teenagers jumped at the offer.This short story chronicles that journey and brings the reader deep down into a place no reader should ever actually go. Along the way, Dr. Steiner will offer interesting tidbits and tales of bats, mines, and the tragic and true Italian Hall Disaster of 1913.