COTTAGE GROVE – When the Bohemia Mining Days board decided to cancel the event for 2024, Matthew Hewlett, a BMD board member at the time, asked for permission to put on his own event.
His original idea was to just put the jail cell in Coiner Park to take people’s photos, which is how he got his start with BMD back in 2019, but the event quickly snowballed into recreating BMD through Spirit of BMD.
