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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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    A Cornish Settlement

    Posted on 17 December 2011 | No Comments
    On the afternoon of Sunday 18 December, 2011 members of the small local rural community and a few Cornish from much further a-field will again gather at the Byng Uniting Church for a simple Christmas Carol service and afternoon tea. The story behind this ordinary...
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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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    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...
  • Visiting Bard and 'Town Crier' Howard Curnow, with Albert Jenkin (Tommi O'Hagan talking with gent on right)

    Cry of Tin to Shake Rag Alley – ’twas Cornish Cousins!

    Posted on 9 September 2011 | 1 Comment
    - ONE of the wonderful things about being of Cornish birth or ancestry is that (almost everywhere) in this wide world the sun never sets on a Pasty!  … Or more seriously, on people being proud of the strong (or even scanty) threads of Cornish...
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    Bendigo Cornish – down, but not out!

    Posted on 8 August 2011 | No Comments
    We like to focus on the good things around the Diaspora in this section of the e-magazine, but there are Cornish groups struggling to survive demographic change and a more and more busy lifestyle. A sad announcement has been received: “The Cornish Association of Bendigo...
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    NZ Cornish Association updates (July, 2011)

    Posted on 15 July 2011 | No Comments
    NZ Cornish Association’s Treasurer Jean Harry, who for many years also compiled the newsy and almost in-the-family style newsletters, has now handed over to Nick Bartle (NZCA Pres) as Editor.   Nick would love to have your items. At the national meeting in May, the Association...
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    16th International Gathering of Cornish Cousins in North America

    Posted on 10 November 2010 | 1 Comment
    The next Gathering of Cornish Cousins in North Americawill take place from 10th—14th August 2011 in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA
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