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The Big Douglas Flat Schoolhouse Community Rummage Sale is May 29th
Douglas Flat, CA...The Douglas Flat Community Center has been continuously welcoming generations since the Gold Rush. Located in Douglas Flat California (near Murphys and Angel's Camp.) Built in 1854, it is the oldest school house in Calaveras County. It served as a school for over a century. Since the beginning it has also served as a community meeting place hosting events from church services, weddings, art classes, plays, cub scouts and square dances. This rummage sale is indeed a fundraiser for the preservation of the building, however it is also a casual Open House, Meet-&-Greet for the whole community and guests. Raising awareness of the schoolhouse is the main goal here because of its potential to be rented more often for weddings, parties, art classes and shows, wine tasting events etc.
ACTIVITIES: Color guard flag raising, live music, life-size 49er diorama, raffles, silent auction, horse shoes, croquet, maypole dance and the first ever Miss Douglas Flat will be crowned for having the best 1800s costume.
In addition to this being a traditional rummage sale it is also festive event. We have invited western reenactors, feel free to dress in any period costume, cowboy, miner even steampunk. Or come as you are. Shop and leave or hang out and roast a free marshmallow.
MOTORCYCLES must be parked outside or shut off and walked in the short distance before they enter because all the tables will be relatively close to the gravel parking area.
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: The ideal location! From many different angles the schoolhouse and it's grounds appear unchanged since the gold rush. In the background are rolling hills and a 1890s three story barn. An 1851 stone Wells Fargo office is on the street next door one can pose in front off.
Between 9AM and noon prominent local artist Judie Cain will be doing an oil painting of the schoolhouse. And will have a few paintings for sale. Here's her website:CainArt.com
DONATIONS WELCOME!
Our team of volunteers will be accepting donations at the schoolhouse between 4-8 PM May 28. If you have something special email us whenever and we will come pick it up or we can arrange for you to meet one of us at the schoolhouse to drop it off when you have time. For sale will be clothes, building supplies, household items, original artwork, (a few steampunk pieces) furniture and antiques and collectables.
We have already collected quite a variety of donated items. There will be bargains not since Mark Twain passed through here.
VENDERS:
We are not charging for vender spaces. Although we are experienced with event planning and flea markets a rummage sale at this location is a first for us, so we are still working out all the details and don't know how many serious shoppers we will have. We encourage venders to donate about a third of their profits if they can but we are not enforcing it.
We have room for some venders. Each space will be a bit smaller than two average parking spots. Feel free to sell whatever you want provided it is legal. No functioning guns allowed.
We plan to close the gate a bit after 8 PM Friday night and will open it back up for venders at 6AM Saturday.
Email us about reserving a spot. The best way to guarantee a spot is to show up at 8PM the night before and set up your tables or otherwise mark off your spot.
OUR MISSION is to keep the 170-year-old building's doors open well into the future. Major structural improvements are necessary. And other renovations are planned to restore the building to its original appearance. Also landscaping improvements would make the building more desirable for rentals, such as weddings, art classes and wine tasting events.
The building is the ideal backdrop for photos! Duh.
Purposes of the DFCC Corporation, from Articles of Incorporation dated June 13, 1945
1. To sponsor, stimulate, and encourage meetings and assemblages of children and persons for religious, charitable, social, educational, and recreational purposes.
2. To sponsor, stimulate, encourage, conduct, and maintain entertainments, plays, and social gatherings for the benefit, amusement, recreation, pleasure, and inspiration of its members and the people of the community of Douglas Flat in general.
3. To stimulate, encourage and inculcate the principals of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity among its members and the people of the community of Douglas Flat at large.
4. To improve preserve and beautify the local school grounds, parks and places of historical interest in and about the community of Douglas Flat, in Calaveras County, California.
5. To promote the general welfare and encourage the happiness of its members and the people of the community of Douglas Flat in general.
6. To lease, purchase, hold, have, use, and take possession of and enjoy in fee simple or otherwise any personal or real property necessary to the uses and purposes of the corporation and to sell, lease, mortgage, deed in trust, alien (sic) (align?) or dispose of the same at the pleasure of the corporation and for the purposes and uses for which said corporation is formed and to buy and sell real and personal property and to apply the proceeds of sale including any and all income to the uses and purposes of the corporation.
Douglas Flat Community Center P.O. BOX 73 Douglas Flat, CA 95229
For rental information contact John Kramer. johnhkramer@gmail.com
For general questions. Questions@douglasflatschoolhouse.com
Source = Douglas Flat Community Center
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The Mother Lode Car Show & Swap Meet May 29-30, 2021
Sonora, CA...The 2021 Mother Lode Car Show & Swap Meet is open to all 1978 and older cars, hot rods, rat rods, jalopies, customs, classics, and pick up trucks. Browse and vote for your favorite cars, enjoy tasty food vendor varieties, and rock out to classic 50s, 60s, 70s tunes at the Motherlode Car Show & Swap Meet. www.motherlodecarshow.com
(2 Days) Sat. & Sun.
Car/Swap Vendor set-Up starts, 12 noon, Fri. May 28
May 29 & 30, 2021
Mother Lode Fairgrounds
220 Southgate Drive
Sonora, CA 95370
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Rummage Sale Free items
We had a very successful rummage sale this past weekend. We received a lot of donations. As such, we still have several nice items left. So, we are giving them away-FREE- on Saturday, 5/29, 8-Noon. Come early!!!
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The Beer Garden at Camp Connell General Store 2021 Music Series
Camp Connell, CA...The Beer Garden at Camp Connell 2021 Original Artists Music Series. Beer - Wine Wood Fired Pizza -Elk Burgers Bison Burgers and More! Doors open at 5pm. May, Jank Tones 29th, Kool Shifters, 30th - 3 to Get, June 5th - Skull Country 12th - Frozen Radicals 19th - Ivory Flats 26th - Keith Burrows Band. July 3rd - TBA 4th - Burn Permit 10th - Rattle Can 17th - Grover Anderson 24th - Jill & the Giants, 31st - The Stardogs s. August 7th - The Acid Country Band 14th - Greg Sutton Band 21st - Leilani Group 28th - Jessica Malone.
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"I went into a General Store, they wouldn't let me buy anything specific..." Comedian Steven Wright
The story of Camp Connell Continues with Camp Connell General Store & The Beer Garden. Owner Dan Tulipani and his crew show what Mountain Life is all about.
The Camp Connell of today was largely influenced by the surging popularity of auto travel through the mountains inspired when Dr. D. Sargent of Angels Camp became the first to drive an automobile over Ebbetts Pass in 1908. Family camping was destined to become an extremely popular recreational activity To meet those demands, Jack Connell began construction of a campground, cabins, general store and gas pumps in 1928. He and his wife named their endeavor "Camp Connell". Opened for business in 1929, the general store and gas station have been in operation ever since. The Connell's continued to expand the store and added a café to serve the increasing number of visitors. By 1934 the Post Office was moved to the store and became "Camp Connell Station". The store was a local gathering place where local residents and vacationers alike would come to share news and leave messages, much as it is today. Occasionally, Circuit Court was convened in the building. Monte Wolfe, Art and Harry Schimke, the Whittles, Hunts, Tryons, Lombardis, and Airolas were frequent visitors.
While the popularity of the general store and café continued, the campground was closed in 1949 and the property was subdivided into lots selling for $600 each. The cabins remained as part of Camp Connell until the 1960's, when the highway was realigned to accommodate the ski resort and village at Bear Valley, as well as the development of Big Trees Village. The old highway became the current two accesses to Camp Connell and the property has stayed much the same ever since.
Today the Camp Connell General Store is one of the oldest Chevron stations in California as well as the longest continuously operated retail business between Murphys and Markleeville. It is a popular stop for visitors and a cherished part of the local community."
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The 2021 Brice Station Vineyards Hill Top Concert & Theatre Series
Murphys, CA...Get your tickets now for great concerts at a beautiful venue. The current schedule is below...
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