Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 28, 2022 -
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Category: Regionalism, Unauthorized Dwellings, North America, Twenty-first Century
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 18, 2022 -
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Category: Education, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, PSA’s, Regionalism, Children, Cars
It was Noah Kellogg's donkey that alerted the prospector to a mountain outcropping of galena, a lead ore often containing silver. This miraculous moment would attract a rough-and-tumble-type crowd to dig up and refine the resources below. What this visually stunning Silver Valley town is today — through mining ups and downs, population decline and industry changes — is just as the town motto cheekily states: "Founded by a jackass and inhabited by his descendants."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 15, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Government, Humor, Regionalism, Mining
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 31, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Regionalism, Psychedelic, 1960s, Weather
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 24, 2022 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, Regionalism, Bars, Saloons, Pubs, and Other Drinking Establishments, Alcohol
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 23, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Eccentrics, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 19, 2022 -
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Category: Government, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Regionalism, 1900s
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 17, 2022 -
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Category: Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Conventions, Regionalism, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 15, 2022 -
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Category: Health, Regionalism, Natural Wonders
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 07, 2022 -
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Category: Regionalism, Vigilante Justice, Hermits, Dogs, Nineteenth Century
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