"On The Road Corner" for May at hiddenamerica.com

Last month at our website (hiddenmeriac.com - In "The Letter From the Road" newsletter), we wrote of what had been described to us as "The First ZGold Rush in America". I was intrigued to learn that it is said that in 1828, Benjamin Parks was deer hunting and overturned a rock laced with gold. Parks' discovery led to "the first major gold rush in the U.S. and created overnight the boom town of Auraria, with a population of 10,000 by 1832".

Needless to say, I became further intrigued upon receiving an email from
John Corcoran from the North Carolina State Library, contesting these
findings. He who wrote that, in fact, the first Gold Rush occurred some 25 years earlier in North Carolina. For more on this subject, go to the newsletter at
hiddenamerica.com

Also at "On The Road Corner" this month:
A look at various Memorial Days that are observed around the fifty
states.....The origins of Mother's Day....New insight into frog jumping
technique...Dutch connections to Pella, Iowa....A dandelion recipe...Our American Place discussion, and more at "On The Road Corner" at hiddenamerica.com