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Your ultimate guide to the best entertainment in Tuolumne County. There’s Talent in them thar’ hills.

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Motherlode Download Listen to Motherlode Download on Spotify. Youreka - MotherLode Download is a weekly podcast that will serve as a local entertainment guide for the Tuolumne County and surroundings regions. Premiering October 18, you can count on getting the download on what’s happening as you drink your coffee eve...

Jamestown Haunted Hotel, Spirit of Woman has never left. True story. — Queens of the Mines Flora was led to her private room on the Transcontinental Express. That evening Flora was sipping her tea in the dining cart, she was unable to sleep. A man joined her at the table, uninvited. The shy woman looked up to shoo him away, but once locking eyes with the young man, she could not bring her

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The Motherlode Download Podcast returns this week. So I have a few questions for my locals…

What is new in town that should be talked about?
For example…. *Black Oaks new fun zone * New bakery in junction * Loggers re-opening…

What events are coming up in the next 6 weeks that should be talked about/covered?

Who should I interview locally? (Artists, musicians, entertainers, business owners, charity organizers, club leaders etc)

📸 of Sophia Kaufman at Water Wheel Saloon and Pizza Parlor open mic by yers truly.

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I am going to be offering private tours for (small) groups of local cemeteries and local main streets this year. Message me 🫶🏼

Season Finale LIVE at The National Exchange Hotel Julia Cathrine Monnin Ducray. Born Julia Monnin, her family was from Switzerland and they had emigrated to Pennsylvania. Living next to them in Pennsylvania, was the Ducray family. The Ducray’s had boarded a steamship in France in 1839. The journey was almost fatal for 15 year old Jean-Baptiste Du...

Luzena Wilson- Part 2 of 2 FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In the next episodes, we will hear the story of The Queen of Devotion in the California Gold Mines of Vacaville, Nevada City and Sacramento. Much if this story is to...

Luzena Wilson - Part 1 of 2 FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In the next episodes, we will hear the story of The Queen of Devotion in the California Gold Mines. Much if this story is told in the own words of this entrepreneur....

Ah Toy Part 3 of 3 FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In Ah Toy’s final episode, we will finish the story of the true pioneer of San Francisco’s Chinatown, Ah Toy, whose story highlights important aspects of the rol...

Ah Toy - Part 2 of 3 FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In Chapter Three, we will continue the story of the true pioneer of San Francisco’s Chinatown, Ah Toy, whose story highlights important aspects of the role the Chi...

Ah Toy -Part 1 of 3 - FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. These are true stories, with some of my own fabrication of descriptive details. In Chapter Three, we will hear the story of the true pioneer of San Francisco’s Chi...

Louise A Boyd John Franklin and Louise Cook were a wealthy couple in California, living off the fortune they earned during the gold rush. Their daughter Louise Arner Boyd was born in San Rafael on September 16, 1887. Louise was offered every advantage imagined by a late young woman in the late 19th century. But i...

Know Their Names - FROM THE VAULT Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal [email protected] Queens of the Mines is a historical, non-fiction collection of the stories of Gold Rush California's top ten women. The stories address racism, immigration, genocide, human t...

Lotta Crabtree - FROM THE VAULT Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal [email protected] Firmly gripping the hand of her five year old daughter Charlotte, Mary Ann Crabtree scanned the sea of men that crowded the docks, in San Francisco, looking for a familiar fa...

Adah Issacs Menken When Adah Isaacs Menken was a young woman she described herself. “I have always believed myself to be possessed of two souls, one that lives on the surface of life, pleasing and pleased; the other as deep and as unfathomable as the ocean; a mystery to me and all who know me. Today we will talk abo...

Juana Briones - The Founding Mother of San Francisco FROM THE VAULT Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal [email protected] Here is the story of a Mexican-American pioneer, healer, trailblazer, businesswoman and landowner. Her name is Doña Juana Briones de Miranda and she is the woman remembered ...

Charley Parkhurst - The Brave Stage Driver Part 2 of 2 FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In this chapter, we are taking a different approach than we have been doing. As we continue learning about the fabulous story of self-determination, freedom of movem...

Charley Parkhurst - The Brave Stage Driver - Part 1 of 2 FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In this episode, we are taking a different approach than we have been doing. Today, we will meet one of California’s most famous Stage Drivers, and learn their fab...

Indentured Servitude in Sonora FROM THE VAULT Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal [email protected] Until february of 1850, Sonora was known as the Sonorain camp, then named Stewart, then to Sonora. The History of Tuolumne stated that according to the California blue book t...

Mary Ellen Pleasant - FROM THE VAULT Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. She was one of the richest and most powerful people in California, and she was a black woman. Known as the “mother of civil rights in California”, one of San Fra...

Flo, The Ghost of The Jamestown National Hotel FROM THE VAULT “We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas This bonus episode is based on the true story and occurrences from The National Hotel, that began with a love story, and ended in murder, over 120 years ago. This Story was Created From the ...

Jennie Curry & Yosemite Firefalls In Yosemite, for thousands of years before the discovery of gold, Native Americans traveled through and inhabited the area that the Sierra Nevada’s melting snow spills dramatically over rocky cliffs on the walls into the Valley. Waterfalls that sit over three thousand feet above its floor. The tre...

The Occupation of Alcatraz - FROM THE VAULT Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal [email protected] The famed Alcatraz prison on Alcatraz Island was in operation from 1934 to 1963. For most, the thought of Alcatraz may bring up a Hollywood film or some of the most notorious...

Freda Ehmann Support the podcast by tipping via Venmo to , buying the book on Amazon, or becoming a patron at www.partreon.com/queensofthemines Olives, technically classified as a fruit, is a powerful fruit. It would benefit most people to eat around 5-10 olives a day. A rich source of powerful....

International Women’s Day - FROM THE VAULT Happy International Women's Day! Here is a bonus episode, last minute! Thanks wikipedia! Opening song by Snakes snakesband.bandcamp.com Shop youniqueproducts.com/queensofthemines to support the podcast!

The Ghost of Chinese Camp - FROM THE VAULT Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal [email protected] Chineses Camp is terror ridden by the queerest ghost on record. From the SF Chronicle September 1904.

Cathay Williams In 1843, Cathay Williams was born to an enslaved woman and a free black man, ironically in Independence, Missouri. It is hard to know an exact day, because records were not kept for the birth of slaves, and if you were born to an enslaved woman, you were born property. Cathay’s childhood was spent...

The Murderous Mail Order Bride of Tuttletown This is Queens of the Mines. Today I am going to tell you the story of the Murderous Mail Order Bride of Tuttletown from 1929. The preceding episode may feature foul language and or adult content including violence which may be disturbing some listeners, or secondhand listeners. So, discretion is ad...

The Murder at Dragoon’s Gulch FROM THE VAULT Today, we are talking about a murder at Dragoon’s Gulch, in Sonora, Ca. No evidence of the gulch’s murderous past remains on the Dragoon Gulch walking trail area in Sonora. The trail begins at the top of Woods Creek Rotary Park across from the Mother Lode Fairgrounds. When you cross Wood’s Cre...

Hattie McDaniel - Black History Month Support the podcast by tipping via Venmo to , buying the book on Amazon, or becoming a patron at www.partreon.com/queensofthemines Today we talk about the incredible life of Hattie McDaniel. She was the First African-American to Win an Oscar, but also, so much more. Season 3 feature...