Eb and Flow, which is a normal cycle for many things in life. It is the things we do not think much about that many miss the most when we look around after it is gone.
Correction / Addition
a few points of clarification about Discover Siskiyou because there are a lot of rumors floating around about how we’re funded/how we operate:
We are structured as a Tourism Business Improvement District and are funded 100% by an assessment levied upon lodging properties (they voted to self-assess at a rate of 2% of every overnight room stay, with that money going to fund our program). We don’t receive any money from local government.
We are legally obligated to spend our budget on marketing activities aimed at drawing overnight visits that benefit our direct stakeholders, which are the lodging properties – meaning that we advertise primarily out of the county to people not from our area who might come stay in hotels/motels/rv parks/etc. I know some folks are curious why we don’t advertise much with local publications, and this is why.
We think what you do is wonderful, and would never / have never discouraged others from working with you!
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Oh gosh, articles like this make me puke! There’s nothing to celebrate about the “good ol’ days” of the so called gold rush!!!
Native Americans suffered lots of violence because of your greed! Everything has been documented by UCLA Professor (PHD) Benjamin Madley “An American Genocide”. Native Americans were treated as disposable workers without food and water. There were heavily armed militias that exerted force and displaced many Natives from their land during these times of the gold rush. Post gold rush and if you were an Indian, you were definitely in danger of being killed or enslaved.
The people of Yreka should be ashamed for doing these so called mining gatherings as festivals for contributing to genocide!
Look up your “heroes” Charles Stone and Andrew Kelsey who raped women and killed many enslaved natives during that time.
Former Governer of CA Peter Burnette (1849-1851) singlehandedly waged a war against CA Indians. You want facts? All these militias and Miners were well funded by CA and killed hundreds if not thousands of Indians.
The most insensitive “article” I’ve read by far!!
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