Sunday, May 02, 2021

TROUBLE WITH STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD IS YOU GET HIT BY TRAFFIC FROM BOTH DIRECTIONS

by Bob Walsh

Placerville, Ca used to be known as Hangtown WAY back in the day.  The tradition is so fixed that there was a noose on the city seal.  The city council caved to the woke crowd a couple of weeks ago and removed the noose from the city seal.  They recently, however, reaffirmed their commitment to the old name of Hangtown as part of the town's cultural heritage. 

The woke crowd managed to convince the city council to remove the "hated symbol" from the seal.  The noose was pictured hanging from a tree branch in the background of the seal, the principle figure on the seal is a gold miner panning for gold.  There were three lynchings in old Hangtown back in the mining days.  As far as I remember from my old California history they were done by a vigilante committee and were not racially motivated.  The stump of the hanging tree still exists, in the basement of a building which was put up on the site.

The city was also known as Old Dry Diggins.  That name is also an "official nickname" for the city.    

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