Nevada City is hosting
Constitution Day events today. A parade, living history, and civil war battle with cannons and muskets. They do this every year and people drive from other states to attend. During the civil war, the twin cities of Grass Valley and Nevada City picked different sides based on where the miners living there were from, though at no time was slavery legal in California so it was mostly a matter of association and favoritism rather than marching to war. News of the war came by telegraph and there was little more than a few drunken brawls over the subject. Still, in September, Constitution Day is celebrated here with coplayers, tents, and cannons.
And everything is hand made and accurate for the period.
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