Mine Tailings: The Valley

Meet John and Mattie Castner, Belt’s founders, in the first theatrical chapter of Mine Tailings ~ historic stories of the Belt Valley area presented on stage at the Belt Performing Arts Center.
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Local playwright, Jeff Ross, has been pressing pen to paper to pull together the stories and history of the Belt Valley from our very own oral history project Belt Story, area history books and interviews with local historian Ken Robison.

This first installment of a series of plays about the area focuses on the beginnings of Belt Valley settlement as witnessed in the late 1800’s by John and Mattie Castner, the city’s patriarch and matriarch.