hey wayward, well thanks for the kind words and ideas. right now we are finishing up the 501c3 paperwork to send in. 28 pages and narratives to write, a lot of fun
anyways, i know a ton of people who want this video so that will be great! t-shirts are a great idea and as soon as we get the 501c3 tax stuff back we can start fund raising. right now its all our of our own pocket. we just today shelled out another $550 bucks for the mine car we are building and its not done yet. so, yes funding will be nice. we do have some other ideas, and running tours is a good boost for us, as long as we can keep the locals coming. the ohio boys are ahead of us in this game and are doing a fine job, they already have their 501c3 stuff done and it makes it alot easier to get equipment donated tax free to the person donating it, well the only way. they have a crazy collection going and we would like to do a similar thing here in the anthracite region......... provided they leave us some stuff
so hopefully we will get this finnished up in the next week or so and get it mailed out. we have alot of ideas and options and cant do any of them till we get our funding, so hopefully in the next year alot of good will come to amr!