Why some Jews are returning to Gold Country
“We’ve had a real boom of young people moving out of the Bay Area and Los Angeles,” says Bernie Zimmerman, a longtime resident of Nevada County.
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“We’ve had a real boom of young people moving out of the Bay Area and Los Angeles,” says Bernie Zimmerman, a longtime resident of Nevada County.
A plaque in Nevada City commemorating the Jewish contribution to the Gold Rush was vandalized.
Police are investigating the vandalism as a “possible hate crime.”
Imagine for a moment an obituary for a scraggly tree, its roots exposed before the wind finally broke it free.
The recently dedicated historical landmark plaque at Hirschman’s Pond misrepresents the true history of the pond, the ecological destruction caused by hydraulic mining, and the native Nisenan community who were displaced from the site.