“Consistent with Cornish Custom every one had to exchange a piece of saffron cake as each piece meant another happy year of life.” –From High on the Bluff Every culture has its holiday traditions. Cornish households, wrote Cassell’s Family Magazine in 1890, “make a...
Nearly two-hundred years after the first Cornish immigrants came to Wisconsin, many taking mining jobs in the state’s southwest corner, their ethnic contributions linger. Cornish immigrants’ skill at constructing stone buildings can still be seen in Mineral Point,...
Cornish pasties, figgyhobbin, and tea biscuits. You must be in Iowa County, Wisconsin! Ethnic food – Cornish, in Iowa County’s case — is a key ingredient in a community’s history and culture. Authors of regional fiction often weave in food, and ethnic...
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When a sibling unexpectedly inherits his grandfather’s dairy farm, Will O’Shaughnessy turns to selling Fords in rural, pre-World War I southwestern Wisconsin.
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