Do you enjoy singing? The Grass Valley Cornish Carol Choir is looking for you to help carry on a local tradition which dates to 1876. In the early days of California gold mining, experienced Cornish miners came to Grass Valley to make better lives for themselves and their families. They brought the geological and technical […]
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Cornish Bard and Historian Gage McKinney to Present Cornish History and Culture
Grass Valley, Calif. – Historian Gage McKinney will teach Cornish history and culture for the Osher Life Long Learning (OLLI) program at Sierra College on four Tuesdays, October 4 through 25, at 1:00 – 2:30 pm. The class will explain who the Cornish are and why they came to Nevada County in the industrial era. […]
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Gold Miner’s Biography Recounts Racism
December 9, 2020 – Gold Mining Genius: A Life of George W. Starr, a new book by historian Gage McKinney, tells the story of a prominent gold miner and along the way reveals the relationship between labor relations and racism in the Nevada County gold mines. In the book, McKinney describes the role played by […]