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    Cornish gather at Australian Celtic Festival 2012

    Posted on 15 May 2012 | No Comments
    The 20th Australian Celtic Festival may have honoured our cousins the Bretons, as well as Galicia and Asturia, as its 2012 theme  but the Cornish in Australia also gathered in Glen Innes  last week (3-6 May, 2012). Situated 915m (3,000 ft) above sea level in...
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    Back to Eaglehawk

    Posted on 1 May 2012 | No Comments
    The Cornish in Victoria, Australia, got together last month for 3 days of Cornish heritage, friendship and fun! [16, 17, 18th March 2012] As part of the 41st Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival, it was back to Eaglehawk, a town within what is now the...
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    St Piran Celebrations at Grass Valley

    Posted on 13 March 2012 | No Comments
    Grass Valley, and their sister Nevada City, in California again celebrated St Piran and their local Cornish settlement heritage. Let the photos do the talking … The Pasty Bake contest was again very popular. The Pasty Olympics, again a great hit: Grass Valley Mayor Jan...
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    It is Cornish Christmas in Grass Valley

    Posted on 2 December 2011 | No Comments
    Recapture the spirit of Christmas past amid the charming surroundings of beautiful down-town  Grass Valley, an historic mining town in Nevada County, California, USA that has a strong Cornish mining heritage. It is from time to time the venue of gatherings of the Cornish Cousins...
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    High Tea in Camden

    Posted on 20 November 2011 | No Comments
    What’s that? No, we haven’t gone all Home Counties English. This Camden is the one down in the Cowpastures countryside, where wandering cattle from the First Fleet in New South Wales were found happy and well fed many years later as the colony tentatively moved...
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    Cornish Heritage Society East honoured Rick Rescorla

    Posted on 27 October 2011 | No Comments
    Among many Cornish groups around the world, and especially in the USA and Cornwall, the memory of Rick Rescorla and his heroism was remembered recently by the Cornish Heritage Society East. On 11 September 2011, sixteen Cornish Cousins gathered once more at Canal Park in...
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    Sun, surf, and saffron?

    Posted on 21 September 2011 | No Comments
    - by Kevrenor - Sun – there was that in abundance! Surf - just nearby at your choice of ocean or bay-side location! Saffron - well, no saffron buns or cake for this year alas – but there was certainly saffron in the Cornish national...
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    Cornish American Cousins changeover

    Posted on 16 September 2011 | No Comments
    Outgoing Cornish American Heritage Society President Tommi       O’Hagan reported from the Gathering in Mineral Point last month; “I am happy now to introduce to you the new president, Thomas Rusch. Tom is very proud of his Cornish blood and the son of Marvin and Fran...
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    RIP Rick Rescorla 1939 – 2001

    Posted on 11 September 2011 | No Comments
    Cornish born hero Rick Rescorla, who saved almost 2,700 lives on September 11, 2001 only to lose his own, has been honoured by an Opera in the USA. The San Francisco Opera is producing “Heart of a Soldier,” based on Rescorla’s life. A memorial was...
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    Cornish in sunny Queensland keep active

    Posted on 3 September 2011 | No Comments
    IN what passes for winter in sunny Queensland the Cornish have kept busy with a Pasty Picnic in New Farm Park, Brisbane, which was reported in their Newsletter, ‘Pythow Kernewek … Things Cornish’ as very enjoyable, with seventeen members on the day (hmm .. seems...
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