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A mosaic artist and a metalworker have been chosen to transform Camborne railway station with two landmark installations showcasing the town.

We asked our Packet Facebook followers which Cornish fish and chip shop was their favourite after Frasers Penzance was named one of The Times best…

Remember “The Music Man,” that venerable musical about Professor Harold Hill, a shifty salesman who persuades an uninterested town to buy his instruments? His most famous line was, “You gotta

From Escanaba to Marquette, Ironwood to Iron Mountain, pasty sightings are a common occurrence in the UP. It’s rare that a particular dish can be so strongly identified with a specific region, but up north in Michigan, pasties reign.

A pasty luncheon on St. Piran’s Day, Saturday, March 4, will celebrate the last of the Cousin Jacks and the first of a new generation of Cornish immigrants to make

An account by a striking miner and Wobbly (Industrial Workers of the World member) who was deported with 1,185 other strikers to New Mexico by armed vigilantes hired by copper bosses to defeat the strike.

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How Cornish Pasties Got to California Grass Valley’s Cornish pasties are a remnant of the town’s mining history Back Web Only May 6, 2021 By Jennifer Fergesen On the counter of Marshall’s Pasties in Grass Valley, next to a few of the awards the 53-year-old shop has accumulated, there’s a blackened metal lunch pail. It doesn’t look like much against the stacks of plaques and framed certificates, but the pail is a direct connection to the mines that once pow...