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Volcano California
$22.00
A small village in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Amador County, in a bowl-shaped basin off State Route 88. Gold was found in the gulch in 1848; by the mid-1850s the camp held something like five thousand miners, three breweries, and a Thespian society. Most of them are gone now. The 2010 census counted 115 residents. The St. George Hotel, built in 1862 and still operating, stands on the same block as Old Abe, a Civil War bronze cannon. Three miles north, at Daffodil Hill, the McLaughlin family planted bulbs from the 1880s onward; in good years more than three hundred thousand bloom in March.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.