On Saturday, March 1st, Grass Valley, California, will invite everyone to become Cornish for a day as it hosts its annual St. Piran’s Day Celebration. In local parlance, becoming Cornish means ...

It’s official, Grass Valley. You are the most Cornish place in America. The organizers of the city’s St. Piran’s Day pasty tossing contest proclaim as much every March. And now the city has a plaque ...

from Cornish Christmas celebrations in Grass Valley to the Cornish pasties, or hand pies, sold around town. Not so evident are the literally hundreds of miles of mine shafts bored beneath the region.