Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
I love you golden blue
Sunday is Waffle Breakfast and Adventure Day!
...in which we make waffles and then go on an adventure. Basically this means picking a road and driving down it til we find something interesting.
Today we went to the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, where gold was discovered by a white man in 1848. The park is on the South Fork of the American River, and it was cool and beautiful and green.
Hydraulic mining caused great environmental damage- erosion, flooding, and mercury contamination.
South Fork of the American River
We hiked a half mile up a mountain to view California's first historic monument, a giant statue of James Marshall. No mention of the Southern Maidu (Nisenan) people who lived there first who did all the work.
Berkeley's Project Underground has done a good alternative history of the Gold Rush called
Gold, Greed, and Genocide that's worth a read.
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