Tag Archives: heritage

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Pirantide even bigger in 2013

The annual Pirantide celebrations kick off this weekend with the first of a series of events across the Duchy of Cornwall and around the world, marking the birthday of Cornwall’s…

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Borlase’s & Scawen’s Legacy Preserved

Borlase & Scawen’s Legacy Preserved Two manuscripts written in Cornish, dating back as far as 1688, will undergo “much needed” conservation work this spring. A grant from the The National…

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Visit the Duchy

Cornwall’s ‘tourism board’ will now be advertising Cornwall all over the world as a Duchy, Celtic region and emphasising Cornwall’s unique culture and heritage. This follows ongoing criticism from Cornish…

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A Sierra Sojourn

Once known as “Big Meadows” for it’s fertile and open grazing land, the Bridgeport Valley was long the domain of Paiute Indians, peaceful hunter-gatherers who lived mainly near the valley’s…

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James Ruse: Part 2 – Extraordinary Times

By Chris Dunkerley – In Part 1 we read of Cornish born man James Ruse convicted of theft, transported on the First Fleet landing at Sydney Cove in January. A…

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Back to Eaglehawk

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…

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St Piran Celebrations at Grass Valley

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…

Large longhorn cattle graze on Cornish moorlands where animals of that size they have never grazed before

Yippee Ti-Yi-Yo, English Nature’s got to go

The UK Quango, called Natural England, (aka English Nature) is an Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. “Our purpose is…

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It is Cornish Christmas in Grass Valley

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…

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Craig Weatherhill: Arrogant Qangos Must Go!

A Penzance archaeologist and historian has joined with Cornish MP George Eustice in calling for ‘English’ Heritage to be replaced, in Cornwall, with a locally based body. Craig Weatherhill, author…