Community artists Jenny Hale and Lisa Barker’s first iteration of Project Wild Edge, an immersive theater performance meant to explore the complicated nature of the wild urban interface, will take place from noon to 12:50 p.m. Saturday on the Wolf Creek Trail in Grass Valley.
The event coincides with the Bear Yuba Land Trust’s NatureFest, which will take place that same day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Cascade Canal, Litton, Wolf Creek and Alan Thiesen trails.
Hale, Project Wild Edge’s co-creative director, said the first practice performance this weekend will give actor-dancers and viewers alike an opportunity to connect with the life and art source before the final performance takes place in spring 2022.
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The largest known Pelton Wheel, which stands 30-feet high, sits in its original location near the intersection of Freeman Lane and Allison Ranch Road in Grass Valley as part of the North Star Mining Museum and Pelton Wheel Exhibit, which will open soon after a year of closure.
Photo: Elias Funez
The North Star Mining Museum, at 933 Allison Ranch Road in Grass Valley, will reopen for the 2021 season on May 1, after remaining closed last year due to the pandemic.
The museum, which first opened in 1971, traditionally opens to visitors from May 1 through Oct. 31 each year.
The North Star Mine powerhouse has since been restored and constructed into a museum housing many operating mining implements, including a working stamp mill.
By Lorraine Jewett | Special to The Union
Pat Warner Has Lived Here Since 1988, and he appreciates our town’s idiosyncrasies. Pat recalls when flashlights put GeeVee in the national spotlight. “Back in ’98 I turned on the TV late one night and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was on so I gave it a watch,” recalls Pat. “Imagine my surprise when he was right in the middle of a regular segment in which he showed actual newspaper clips of local police blotters and our very own blotter from The Union was featured. It was something like, ‘A caller in Grass Valley reported seeing an abandoned car without headlights that had two flashlights duct-taped to the hood and two taped to the roof.’ The audience went nuts! All I could think was, ‘Yep, that’s our town…’”