A new community effort aims preserve the firsthand accounts of U.S. war veterans,  starting with those who served in WWII. The project’s future hinges entirely on community support. The Tuolumne Veterans History Project (TVHP) is being led by Deanna Maurer, a professional personal historian. Project partners to date include Friends and Neighbors Magazine, Veterans of
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Many hardworking gold miners lost their entire savings, except for what they had secretly buried in jars, tin cans and Dutch ovens around their claims.

In the wild and carefree days of the gold rush, the diggings were abuzz with unusual stories like these: It was rumored in 1849 that a Frenchman on the Tuolumne River found a 34-pound nugget that drove him crazy. Whenever he looked at it, he was overcome with fits of madness. A 49er from Jackass
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Sierra wildlife should play starring roles in stories that recount our foothills’ history, but seldom do we hear about these loveable creatures, these all-but-forgotten creatures, these stage-struck creatures that performed amazing tricks in the diggings and brought smiles to a thousand bearded faces. There comes a legend from old Tuolumne County of a black bear
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