Thank goodness it is safe!
Thanks :)
Jules
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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gregg Camfield
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:15 PM
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Subject: Re: Mark Twain Cabin - up in smoke by the Rim Fire?
Still safe. It's north of Sonora, which is north-west of the fire. In fact= , Sonora is an evacuation shelter site.
The L.A. Times has a map of the fire boundaries.
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/arcims.php
The Fed Govt has a fire incident site that links to much info, including sa= tellite photos of the fire.
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/arcims.php
Gregg
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On Aug 27, 2013, at 5:06 AM, "Richard Reineccius" <richard_reineccius@YAHOO= .COM<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Twain Folks -=3D0AI haven't yet seen whether the Mark Twain Cabin has been = ha=3D rmed or destroyed by the big RIM FIRE that is still growing, and invading Y= =3D osemite Park.=3D0ADoes anyone know?=3DA0 The various news outlets here in C= alif=3D ornia haven't mentioned it, but today they reported that the Berkeley City = =3D Camp in Tuolumne County has been destroyed.=3D0A=3D0AWrite me directly, or = post=3D to the list if you know the cabin's [log in to unmask]<=
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=3D0A(sent from Oakland, CA)=3D0A=3D0ABelow are the words from the CofC abo= ut the=3D cabin. Pictures are to be found via an ASK.COM<http://ASK.COM> search for M= arkTwainBretHar=3D teTrail=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A =3D0AHistoric Point of Interest =3D0AReconstructed M= ark Twain =3D Cabin =3D0AJackass Hill Road =3D0ANear=3D0A=3D09=3D09=3D09Tuttletown =3D0A= A plaque spons=3D ored by the Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce reads: =3D0A=3DA0 =3D0AMar= k Twai=3D n Bret Harte Trail - Mark Twain Cabin =3D0AStopping place of packers carryi= ng=3D supplies to miners. Often 300 jackasses on hill over night furnishing conc= =3D ert suggesting name "Jackass Hill." Very coarse gold found here. $10,00 tak= =3D en from 100 square feet of ground. Quartz found containing 3/4 of total wei= =3D ght in gold. Mark Twain, Steve, Jim and Bill Gillis and Dick Stoker, the "D= =3D ick Baker" in "Roughing It," were cronies. Mark wrote here "Jumping Frog of= =3D Calaveras" from notes made at Angels Camp tavern. =3D0AErected by Tuolumne = C=3D
ounty Chamber of Commerce 1928 =3D0AA Rotary Club plaque mounted on a roc=
k =3D
beside the cabin reads: =3D0A=3DA0 =3D0AMark Twain Cabin =3D0AThis cabin w= as first=3D built in 1922 to commemorate the famed author's presence in Tuolumne Count= =3D y during the winter of 1864-1865. Sam Clemens had come over the mountains f= =3D rom Virginia City, Nevada, to San Francisco with his friend Steve Gillis. H= =3D is various biographers gave different reasons for Clemens coming to Jackass= =3D Hill. No matter the reason, Sam Clemens arrived here on December 4, 1864. = =3D =3D0AClemens, better known as Mark Twain, stayed with the other two Gillis = br=3D others, Jim and Bill, and Dick Stocker (local pocket miners) until about Fe= =3D bruary 25, 1865. While living on the hill, Sam heard the story of the "jump= =3D ing frog" in an Angels Camp saloon. His version would transform his life. A= =3D lso some of the tall tales spun by the Gillis brothers and Stoker would fin= =3D d their way into Mark Twain's later writings. That short stay here in the S= =3D ierra had quite an impact on American literature. =3D0ATime and the element= s =3D took their toll on the first "Mark Twain Cabin," so the Sonora Sunrise Rota= =3D ry Club, during 2002 - 2005, restored the cabin as its centennial project, = =3D celebrating 100 years of Rotary (1905-2005). This cabin was dedicated on Fe= =3D
bruary 23, 2005, the 100th birthday of Rotary International. =3D0AThis si=
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is also Califronia Historical Landmark 138.
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