Brighter than Gold (Mariposa, California)

The Tale of 10,000 Cities proudly brings you the tale of Mariposa, California. This town located on the south end of the Mother Lode was built on gold, but stays alive today due to it's strong community and connection to it's history. When you think of the old west, you think of Mariposa, and there's no mistake why it ended up being our longest video to date.
Join us as Carol E. Dewey hosts us at the Wisteria Arbors. Susan Posey welcomes us to the Sugar Pine Cafe and Travis Medlock and Melissa Takahashi feed us at Little Shop of Ramen. We visit the courthouse, the old jail, the farmer's market, and St. Joseph's church. Layla Meadows presents to us Mountain Fitness. We join Teresa Gross at Mariposa Shirts & Stuff and Miranda Fengel at Mariposa Museum & History Center Inc. Rowena Lubo and her husband Mark Garrett both speak to us about the importance of keeping your mind healthy and the safety of controlled burns and how it can prevent fires like the Creek Fire, and finally Jake Wackerman and Hanna Wackerman present 1850 Restaurant & Brewing Company with fantastic food and behind the scenes looks at the brewery.
This will be the longest episode in Season 1 of The Tale of 10,000 Cities but for the county seat of what used to be the biggest county in California, there's a reason we needed to tell this story in the proper way and you'd be crazy to miss this one.
See Carol's listings on Airbnb at the following link where you can stay at any of her fantastic rooms in Mariposa: www.airbnb.com...
Big thanks go to the following channels who supplied content to this video:
ROWΞNA LUBO - / @rowenalubo
UCCE Mariposa - / @uccemariposa6202
PaPa's Page - / @papaspage2001
Cal Soul - / @cals0ul
Scouts Out - / @scoutsout
The following videos from the above channels were included in this project:
• Stockton Creek Preserv...
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• Mariposa Butterfly Fes...
• CalFire Invasive Plant...
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Credit to Jeremy Schultz for use of the thumbnail image, "Pot of Gold" www.flickr.com... under the Creative Commons License creativecommon... font added to original, black background added.
This video series is partly supported by Tripepi Smith, a provider of marketing, technology and public affairs consulting services to cities all across California. Learn more about how Tripepi Smith helps cities better communicate and engage with their residents and businesses at www.tripepismi...

[@TheDiannastockwell]

Well done! Thank you so much for coming to our little town and making it a part of your series.

[@TheTaleofCities]

Our pleasure! It was the place we'd looked forward to the most and it didn't disappoint!

[@WestShoreMan]

Mariposa is Fabulous!!

[@TheTaleofCities]

It really is!

[@patty2049]

wow, this town looks so nice and friendly. I'll go by next time I'm in Cal. :)

[@croatiansensation6062]

Mariposa is a wonderful gem of a town. The people are very warm and friendly, and you feel like you are home there simply as a visitor. Thank you for staying true to our rich mining history and California cultural heritage. I am honored to have been there and plan to visit again soon :O)

[@TheTaleofCities]

It really is, thanks for your kind words.

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

Wow, very extensive overview of Mariposa. Thanks for producing it. I hope this video peeks the interest of people coming up to visit the town and help support the local economy as things "return to normal" some day. Even though this is a very long video with a lot of content, there is even more to see and do in and around Mariposa. We get to come up and visit regularly since my Parents live just a bit outside of town.

[@TheTaleofCities]

Yeah isn't that the truth? We had to exclude a few restaurants we ate at since we already were featuring three in the video, there's a gem and mineral museum up there as well, there really is a lot to do and see in this place and it's a great place to spend a few days in, and seems to be a great place to live as well.

[@ScoutsOut]

Great video, very informative. Such a neat little town with lots of history

[@TheTaleofCities]

It really is, we'll have to go back there one day for sure.

[@dstu322]

Great job showing the local Mariposa culture and history.

[@TheTaleofCities]

Thank you Darrel! We did our best to showcase both.

[@1MustangMom]

Outstanding and beautiful Paul ,Candace, Violet sure enjoying all this time traveling 🕊🕊🕊❤❤❤❤

[@TheTaleofCities]

Thank you! Three more episodes left this season and then once Season 2 picks back up at the end of January we'll start bringing Arizona, Utah, and Nevada into the mix.

[@1MustangMom]

Awesome I can tell you alot about UTah the great places I ate at for a year i spent traveling to see my son Loren was at school over there for 1 year. they have the best roads city is very spread out like fresno. And Nevada too I used to own property less than 10 mins from Virginia City in stagecoach Nevada on US highway 50. definitely check out the Wild Horses run wild through the mountains near Virginia city. Arizona my daughter and her boyfriend nick just moved too Phoenix in October Williams Arizona has the Grand Canyon Railway that was a lot of fun we stayed at the fray marcos hotel at the train station and took the train to the grand canyon for the 2 day trip. the city of Parker home to Lake Havasu and the Original London Bridge is phenomenal to see we spent a lot time traveling when my 2 older kids were younger.

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

Love Mariposa

[@eamonfluharty3072]

I live their it’s great come visit

[@kitamiyoyogi6332]

❤

[@cliffordincalifornia]

Amy owns Stage Coach Coffee there , we went to JR High together , tell her i sent you

[@ishrakhaider]

Is mariposa , California safe for living? How is the crime rate? And how is the costing?

[@seMMMrecap]

Yes, barely any robberies, crime rate is low, but it is very expensive

[@jmac4952]

Huge gang war going on in Mariposa as we speak. I think it's the Crips and Bloods.

[@seMMMrecap]

HAHAHA THATS AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL

[@lisaschooler9992]

I think they were the very last county in California to have even one case of Covid… I think they didn’t even get their first case there until like July or something - I have a few relatives who live there.

[@rnill7901]

@@jmac4952yup, don’t move there 😂😉

[@rkarmen1000]

Y la historia desde 1700? Su pasado mexicano?