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Consolidation - an idea whose time has come?
Original post made by peter carpenter, Atherton: Lindenwood, on Nov 7, 2010
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Here is a provocative OpEd from the SF Chronicle:
Service sharing essential in era of deep deficits
Paul Saffo
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Small-town living has long been part of the American dream, but amid California's fiscal crisis, it is becoming a nightmare. Cities like Vallejo have declared bankruptcy as municipal deficits deepen. Others, like Maywood in Southern California, have fired their city employees and outsourced everything from police and fire protection to pothole filling.
Cities all over the state are contemplating similar measures, but the Bay Area is particularly at risk of further municipal bankruptcies. Quite simply, the Bay Area has too many cities, and if serious steps aren't taken to consider all options - from sharing services, to merging municipalities and even disincorporation - the list of bankruptcies is certain to grow.
The nine counties of the Bay Area are home to 6.9 million residents, living in 101 cities. By contrast, Los Angeles County has nearly 10 million residents living in 88 cities, while Orange County's 34 cities represent 3 million residents. Over a third of Bay Area cities have populations of less than 20,000 residents, and nearly a quarter are smaller than 10,000 citizens. Among these are more than a few micro-cities like Belvedere, with just over 2,000 residents, and tiny Colma, whose population of just over 1,000 citizens is outnumbered 10-to-1 by a silent majority interred in the town's cemeteries.
Too many cities means wasteful duplication of services. Many Bay Area cities already share or outsource fire protection and are moving to share other services such as police and maintenance, but this still leaves plenty of pointless duplication. A hundred and one cities inevitably means too many mayors, city councils, city managers, administrators, town halls, maintenance yards and all the other costly trappings that make a city a city.
Too many cities also translate into more than just waste. City revenues are for the most part spent within city limits, and thus a proliferation of small cities translates into greater regional inequities when it comes to funding for schools and other services.
The result is an uneven landscape of municipal haves and have-nots, of well-off cities like Palo Alto and Menlo Park abutting a struggling East Palo Alto. Altruistic generosity is out of the question, but increased intercity service sharing could create a win-win situation where all cities involved realize cost savings and enhanced citizen benefits.
The current financial crisis thus has a silver lining: It is an opportunity to craft solutions that benefit the Bay Area as a whole.
The inefficiencies bedeviling Bay Area cities have been present for decades but ignored while cities were flush with revenue. Faced with historic budget deficits, our cities can't simply cost-cut their way out of this mess. We need new, creative solutions that rethink what a city is and how it serves its residents.
Boundary drops and shared services are a start. Fire services across the Bay Area have supported the idea of consolidation for years, but we need to think bigger. The Los Angeles County Fire Department serves 4 million residents in 58 cities and unincorporated areas. Why doesn't each of our Bay Area counties have a single fire department, or better, why isn't there a single Bay Area-wide fire department? The savings realized from consolidation could be spent on shared resources unaffordable to individual departments. For example, Los Angeles County Fire operates a fleet of nine life-and-property-saving multipurpose helicopters; the Bay Area has none. Such a fleet would be a godsend during fire season and when the Big One hits.
But fire is just a start. San Carlos is disbanding its police department and will rely instead on the San Mateo County sheriff's office for law enforcement. San Mateo is the second-smallest county in California; does each of its 20 HO-scale cities really need a police force?
If cities can share cops and firefighters, then surely they can also share just about any service a city provides. Our counties all have fine infrastructures, from road maintenance to legal services. If done with vision, outsourcing services to the county level can deliver real benefits at lower cost across the entire spectrum of governmental functions.
Municipal-service sharing is not just inevitable; it is also the path to a larger and equally inevitable result. One way or another, the Bay Area has fewer cities in its future. Gus Morrison, the former mayor of Fremont, is promoting the idea of merging Fremont, Newark and Union City in Alameda County to share services and costs. Half Moon Bay is already considering the once-unthinkable option of disincorporation, but our cities also need to begin serious consideration of merging with their neighbors. On the Peninsula, for example, Portola Valley should merge with Woodside, Hillsborough should join forces with Burlingame, and San Carlos really wants to be part of Belmont.
The obstacles to such unions seem insurmountable, but service sharing paves the way to this end by creating the habit of cooperation. As cities share more and more, they will rapidly reach a point where merger seems inevitable and obvious in its benefits. Eventually many of our cities will merge, and the toughest issue they will face in doing so will be one of merely trying to agree on what to call their newly conjoined municipality.
City mergers: Mixing it up
Bay Area cities that could merge - and what they could become:
Population: 206,241
Area: 92 square miles
Union City
Population: 67,207
Area: 19.3 square miles
Population: 42,215
Area: 14 square miles
-- Frewark City
Population: 315,663
Area: 125.3 square miles
Population: 8,666
Area: 13.2 square miles
Population: 2,125
Area: 2.4 square miles
-- Tiburdere
Population: 10,791
Area: 15.6 square miles
San Carlos
Population: 27,718
Area: 5.92 square miles
Population: 24,984
Area: 4.5 square miles
-- BelCarlos
Population: 52,702
Area: 10.42 square miles
Paul Saffo is managing director of foresight at Discern, an institutional investment research firm based in San Francisco. To comment, go to www.sfgate.com/chronicle/submissions/
Comments (7)
a resident of another community
on Nov 7, 2010 at 3:25 pm
I agree 100% It is Time for Consolidation before being forced.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Nov 7, 2010 at 5:16 pm
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a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Nov 8, 2010 at 2:37 pm
On another thread this very pertinent comment was posted:
Posted by WhoRUpeople, a resident of another community, 31 minutes ago
Peter, with due respect and acknowledgment of your service in PA and the fire district, I have to ask you a question before we start a dialog regarding the merits/barriers to any consolidation initiatives between PA and MP. What do you see are the incentives for Palo Alto (not Menlo Park) to consolidate services with either Menlo Park or Menlo Park Fire? I fully realize that often consolidation of services between cities/agencies bring financial incentives, but I'm thinking also about quality of services. Menlo Park Fire has an excellent reputation, but so does PA Fire. I don't know whether PA's HR department is good or bad, but from what I've heard/read, I would guess they have to be better than Menlo Park's HR. Where do you see the quid pro quo lying? As the old song went, it takes two to tango.
My response - Both MPFPD and PA have excellent fire departments but bewteen them they have two chiefs, two deputies, many battalion chiefs and numerous other overhead positions - in a merged department half of these would go away. The two departments have a very long common border which leads to suboptimal station location and staffing on the two sides of that border. For example PA's SLAC station is much better positioned to serve Sand Hill Road than is MPFPD's Station 4 on the Alameda. For the sam amount of total expenditure all of the covered citizens could get much better coverage or they could get the same coverage as they currently have for significantly less money.
In my corporate and government experience things like finance and HR are fungible and a good finance office or HR office could serve both communities with fewer people that the combined current staffs and, I suspect, do a better job given the economies of scale.
a resident of another community
on Nov 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm
R.Gordon is a registered user.
Eventually, it took someone with Peter's years of service to realize that the entire Bay Area is actually hanging by a thread.
Rich people will not enjoy seeing poverty around them..or crime, or released criminals from jails we can no longer afford.
It is time to think more like Bill and Melinda and I hate saying this, but I knew from running casual discussions in Sacramento and San Francisco, with the likes of Newsom, and especially our governor, that it was just too plain to see what Peter is describing.
It is a new world for Americans and especially those of us who deem any kind of superiority. Education and Humanity are also involved; or are actually the motivating factors all have chosen to ignore.
a resident of Menlo Park: Menlo Oaks
on Nov 8, 2010 at 11:04 pm
It's time that government look for more efficient ways to operate and save taxpayer dollars. We should look at many more options than fire services; how about law enforcement and schools to name a couple. Do you realize that there are at least 25 public school districts in San Mateo Co. each with its own superintendent? And how many police chiefs are there?
With these municipalities looking at tightening their budgets and services, why aren't leaders willing to consider consolidation instead of raising taxes?
a resident of another community
on Nov 9, 2010 at 9:18 am
James, "...why aren't leaders willing to consider consolidation instead of raising taxes".
I am a big supporter of consolidating services. The hard part isn't doing analysis that would show that savings are possible without sacrificing services. The hard part is getting people to be willing to share control. It is true that if two police departments merged, you would only need one chief. It is true that if two cities or school districts merged their entire administrative function, you would only need one superintendent/manager. Etc, etc. etc. However, how do you get the people in those positions motivated to do anything other than look for barriers when their livelyhood is directly affected? The same thing holds true at the political level. City/County councils/boards won't readily embrace such initiatives; unless or until, of course, the wolf is at the door. Multiply all the perocial issues existing between two cities like Menlo Park and Palo Alto, by the fact that each are in different counties, and the barriers become even more exacerbated.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Nov 9, 2010 at 1:32 pm
WhoRUpeople states:"However, how do you get the people in those positions motivated to do anything other than look for barriers when their livelyhood is directly affected? The same thing holds true at the political level. City/County councils/boards won't readily embrace such initiatives; unless or until, of course, the wolf is at the door."
Guess what folks, the wolf is inside the house but the residents hear no wolf, see no wolf, speak no wolf.
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Blizzcon Casualties, part 1
A little late, I know, but I'm finally recovered enough from Blizzcon to write about it. No, no, I wasn't the guy who scrapped his leg dancing on stage. I do, however have a sexy blister on my toe (warning! gross picture!) from walking to Santa Ana from my hotel in new shoes. The sucker's almost bigger than my toe itself! And a combination of not handling sleep deprivation well and school not giving me two minutes to myself makes for a very cranky pally.
Don't let my whining mislead you, though. I had a blast at Blizzcon.
Blizzcon Itself
I see a lot of complaining about Blizzcon. Mainly from people who were watching it on livestream. Understandably: they got all the boring parts of Blizzcon with none of the perks.
I wasn't expecting to make it to any of the panels since I didn't bother buying a ticket, so when my guildie had to go home in a hurry, I was thankful that he gave me his pass. As a result, I got to attend all of Saturday's events.
I don't care about news or fancy announcements, so I wasn't looking for anything exciting. I loved the cinematics presentation. I was on the edge of my seat, squealing the whole time. I don't know much about graphics and game design, so most of the theoretical stuff was over my head. I didn't care: it looked super cool so I loved it. When I got home, I described it to my friends like this:
"So I went to this gaming company convention and they showed us the cinematics of this new game they have coming out and there was a dragon destroying the world and they showed us how he's tearing up cities and making fire in the sky and causing huge waves. Before, in games, they used particles to design water, but the effects in this game were too big so they needed too many particles so they had to do it differently so they showed us how they did it and they used tons of layers and OMG it was so cool."
I've been receiving a lot of "that's nice, dear" looks.
Class Q&A didn't really teach me anything. Some of the questions were either too obscure for my pally-only mind, for the others, the developers gave vague, generic answers that didn't bring anything new to the table. I get the impression that Q&A sessions are only held to give players the illusion that they, as individuals, are being listened to.
That said, I would have loved to ask about the fate of paladin utility spells (our Hand abilities mostly) and why they're not being spotlighted as much as they could be. I thought of it too late, though, and besides, I'm probably the only paladin crazy about utility spells, so I would have probably been booed away.
Oh, and the girl who went on about how dps should never take damage in a raid gave me a good laugh. Has she raided ICC? Sindragosa? Blood Queen? Clearly, she must be one of those dps who don't ever look at their health bar. And it's exactly dps like her who need damage reduction talents. (Her original question was concerning the need to pick pvp talents when moving down a tree.)
The Diablo Q&A needed better question screening. Will there be separate PVE and PVP specs? Oh, gee, I dunno, the developers only said no THREE TIMES.
My experience with Diablo is limited to having played for 15 minutes in the "old game demo" section of Blizzcon, so I was a little lost during the Q&A, but I'm excited to see how their non-competitive approach to the game will turn out.
I ended the day by watching most of the Starcraft II finals. I was curious as to what a pro game of Starcraft looks like. The speed and precision of those guys are incredible. How they manage to control 9 groups of units while using all of their buildings to make new units and expanding their bases to other mineral locations, I'll never understand. In the time it takes me to build a couple of SCVs, they've each already established Command Centers at three different mineral fields and unleashed their army on the enemy. Twice.
I wonder if those kinds of skills translate to other aspects of life.
My favourite part of my day at Blizzcon though?
Riding in the Starcraft II flippy-thingy.
Oh yeah.
Notice how I'm there with a stranger. Two of my guildies, big tough guys, were with me, but chose purse-holding duties over riding in the flippy-thingy. Seriously!
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7 Comments on "Blizzcon Casualties, part 1"
October 28, 2010 at 5:20 am
This sounds like so so much fun! The odds of me ever getting to a Blizzcon are really slim due to the price and hassle of getting there from Europe (not to mention the US visa I'm not very likely to get), but now I *really* want a guild meet! All my previous meetings with "internet people" were extremely cool, so I hope we can get the guild together and have as much fun as you did with yours 🙂
October 28, 2010 at 6:18 am
I wouldn't have gone on the floppy thing either. Given how much I drank the night before, the entire room was my floppy ride.
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Convenience stores are just that, convenient. Whether it's buying used video games or pre-ordering big titles, today's corner stores offer more than slushies and candy bars. One Japanese chain is considering one
deader better.
Family Mart, which expanded to the U.S. as "Famima", is pondering whether it should enter the funeral business, reports J-Cast (via Japan Trends). The average funeral costs around US$11,000 in Japan. Convenient stores would make it possible for families to easily (and quickly) arrange services.
Suburban retail giant Aeon (think Target or Walmart) introduced a funeral service last year with prices that start at around $3,500 and climb to over $17,000.
Japanese convenience stores aren't simply special for their Neon Genesis Evangelion snacks and already offer consumers a wide array of services that go beyond fax machines and payphones.
Consumers can drop letters in a Japan post mailbox, buy concert tickets, pay their bills (gas, electronic, phone), buy cell phones, return rented DVDs, send packages, buy special Japanese New Years food that can cost $100 (and up) and more. Thus, the convenience store, or "conbini" as it's called, is viewed a something that truly lives up its name and makes people's lives easier. Today's conbini is closer to a general store of old than its modern-day American counterpart.
With the population continuing to gray and those dying outnumbering those being born, adding the ability to arrange a funeral service not only seems convenient, but in Japan, as natural as buying a canned coffee or the latest hit PS3 game.
Culture Smash is a daily dose of things topical, interesting and sometimes even awesome — game related and beyond.
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Jun 05, 2018 | ISBN 9780525575023
Toasts to And a Bottle of Rum
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Idealizing the body and wanting to control it go hand-in-hand; it is impossible to say whether one causes the other. A physical ideal gives us the goal of our efforts to control the body, and the myth that total control is possible deceives us into striving for the ideal… In a culture which loves the idea that the body can be controlled, those who cannot control their bodies are seen (and may see themselves) as failures.
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We had a wonderful Christmas with my Mom and brother. Mom made her special home made pizza for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. We modified it to make it almost vegan. We did sprinkle on a bit of cheese, but no pepperoni. On Christmas Day she made a beef roast. We had beef for the first time in five months. We didn't figure it would kill us.
We decided against an early morning Christmas day trip to the beach and instead did a 4 mile hike at Hillsborough River State Park later that morning. I guess the Christmas beach tradition was more enjoyable when we lived in Georgia and didn't get to the beach as much. We just couldn't muster the energy to get out of bed early and go.
Today, it looks like it will be raining most of the day, so it looks like we're staying home and starting this season of Homeland. That's a really good series on Showtime if anyone is looking for something good to watch. My brother put both seasons on a flash drive for us, so we're can watch as much or as little as we like and on our schedule. A few other really great series we enjoy are: Breaking Bad, Dexter, Walking Dead, and Boardwalk Empire. A lot of these can be found at your local library.
The past few days have been just loads of fun.
First, we had to take our kitty Chatty to the vet on Thursday morning. He had been throwing up most of the night. I had big plans for the next two days and didn't want to deal with any major issues for a while. The vet didn't really find anything wrong with him and he seems to be doing better now. We're wondering if it was because we'd given him some roast beef the night before.
Yesterday, we finally finished up the last of our medical tests. For years I had been procrastinating getting a colonoscopy and finally got that done yesterday. I'm happy to say I passed with flying colors. I used the Miralax prep mixed with Crystal Light lemonade flavored mix. I have a problem drinking anything medicinal, so I was a tad worried about getting all 64 ounces of the solution down. It tasted like lemonade, and wasn't loaded with sugar making me sick on an empty stomach. I'm putting this in the blog so I can remember next time, in 7-10 years when I have to have another one. I'm going to try to be better next time and do it when it's expected. I had visions of them finding something that totally could have been prevented. I think that would be hard to deal with.
I had never had any surgery or anesthetic, before, so I was a bit nervous about the whole thing, but I have to say being put under was lovely! I had a couple nice dreams and a really good nap.
When we got home, I made Al fix my lunch, clean up the mess afterwards, and generally wait on me hand and foot all the rest of the day. He complained a bit saying it was only a colonoscopy, not major surgery. I reminded him how many times I've taken care of him after surgeries, so he owed me. He shut up and went to work. :) I spent most of the afternoon watching tv/napping. I don't know if it was missing most of the previous two nights sleep, or due to the anesthesia, but I was really sleepy all day.


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Dean Tornabene is the co-inventor with Charles Perez of some of the best-selling gadgets ever pushed by infomercials, including the AB Rocker and the Bun and Thigh Sculptor. His inventions over the past four years have generated more than $300 million in retail sales and direct-response TV combined.
Tornabene, a former Mr. America who has established himself as a health and fitness guru, has quite an impressive background, but his inventing skills go far beyond simply cashing in on his good looks and name recognition. Tornabene also knows how to create a distinctive product-one with the potential to find space on retail shelves and become a smash hit, not just another deadbeat collecting dust in a corner of Wal-Mart.
Tornabene's first inventions came about when he was a teenager growing up in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. His family couldn't afford expensive fitness equipment, so Tornabene created his own products. At 22, Tornabene moved to Los Angeles and gradually realized that the general public needed more than just exercise to keep in top shape. Hence, Herbal Technologies Inc. was born, a company that sells two of the most popular herbal supplements, Fat Fighting System and Metasystem.
Over the past four years, Tornabene has again turned to fitness equipment, co-inventing the AB Rocker and the Bun and Thigh Sculptor. All have been featured on direct-response TV, and now he's taking yet another stride forward: In 1999, Tornabene signed an exclusive marketing and sales contract with National Boston Medical Inc., parent company of Infotopia, to produce a minimum of 12 new infomercial products over the next four years. The newest product to be featured is the Body Rocker.
Daniel Hoyng, president, chairman and CEO of Infotopia, notes the significance of the deal: "Retail sales are even more important than direct-response sales. To keep a product on retailers' shelves, it's important to have a branding strategy that consumers can recognize."
Don Debelak (email@example.com) is a new-business marketing consultant who has been introducing new products for more than 20 years. He is the author of Bringing Your Product to Market (John Wiley & Sons, $19.95, 800-225-5945).
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"OK," you're saying, "so how did Tornabene do it?" First and foremost, you need to make sure your product is different from all the other products out there that are similar to yours. The market is just too demanding. "[I like] to think in other dimensions and use a perspective that's intangible," says Tornabene. In other words, he looks for products that aren't delivering what consumers want-then he focuses on that need and tries to visualize how the product should be designed.
Consider the thought process behind the AB Rocker. Tornabene first identified the problem: The average American doesn't really enjoy exercising and usually stops his or her regime after a short period of time. He then looked beyond his extensive knowledge of fitness products to try to come up with a product to solve that problem.
"I started to realize that the motion people find most comforting is rocking," says Tornabene. "That's why I decided to make rocker technology the basis of my fitness products. The market's previous top-selling abdominal exercising product was the AB Roller, a major hit on direct-response TV. For five years, no one was able to come up with a better solution." Then Tornabene invented the AB Rocker.
Your challenges as an inventor go beyond thinking in other dimensions, however. When creating their products, many inventors experience the frustration of trying to coordinate three very different things: the look, the vision and the cost of the product. You need to have a look that sets the product apart, a function that's important to consumers and a price that consumers will feel is a good value.
Inventors frequently fall short in at least one of these areas. The most effective way to avoid this problem is to collaborate with another person. Tornabene, for example, works closely with Perez, a mechanical wizard who turns vision into reality by creating prototypes. The two of them own a shop in Venice, California.
After experiencing the wonderful world of marketing, you'll typically find that the best collaborative partnership is between a person with the vision to create a new idea and a person who can deliver a quality product. The skills of the two people complement each other, and their different perspectives-one looking to give customers the benefits they want, the other trying to build a quality product at a low cost-lead to the best products.
Tornabene is a well-known inventor with a track record of successful products-but he didn't start off that way. (Remember that small-town story we mentioned earlier? That's where we all begin.) What took him to the top was his ability to consider alternatives to existing products. You'll have a better chance of duplicating Tornabene's success if you can learn to think outside of the proverbial box when creating your own winning inventions.
Shelf Life
The direct-response industry has changed dramatically over the past five years. Direct-response ads were originally used to generate direct sales, and marketers only moved their products to retail during and after their direct-response run. Today, marketers use direct-response TV to supercharge retail sales.
Consider the example of Roto Zip Tool Corp., which has sold its Roto Zip tool (looks like a power drill but acts like a router) for 25 years via building supply stores like Menards and Home Depot. When the company ran an infomercial for three months, retail sales increased more than 50 percent, cites Response magazine. Then there's The Bacon Wave, a microwave-safe bacon cooker by Emson Inc. In its initial TV run, the Bacon Wave sold 250,000 units-then it hit the retail shelves and sold 1.5 million units in just six months. And don't forget The Contour Cloud Pillow, which garnered $18 million during its six-month TV campaign and went on to sell a healthy $6 million more its first year in retail.
Retailers have learned that many people who are reluctant to buy a product off a direct-response ad are more than happy to buy it when they see it on store shelves. Plus, most retail products sell like hot-cakes once they're seen on TV.
Stay Tuned
Infomercials and direct-response TV ads have become some of the most successful routes for inventors to get their products to leading retailers. These retailers often use the "As Seen on TV" marketing technique to push products, as the merchandise can keep selling long after its last TV spot. Best of all for inventors, the infomercial promoters usually finance most-if not all-of the cost of producing and marketing the idea. To stay on top of the latest developments in the direct-response industry, subscribe to Response magazine (http://www.responsemag.com), which covers multichannel direct advertising (including infomercials), one- to two-minute direct commercials and direct-response Web advertising. Annual subscriptions are $39.
Beam Me Up
Many companies can help you take your product onto direct-response TV and then into retail stores. Here's a few you may want to try:
- Emson Inc.: (a division of E. Mishan & Sons) 2350 Fifth Ave., #800, New York, NY 10001, (212) 689-9094, http://www.emsontv.com
- hawthorne direct inc.: 300 N. 16th St., P.O. Box 1366, Fairfield, IA 52556, (515) 472-3800, http://www.hawthornedirect.com
- Infotopia: (a division of National Boston Medical Inc.) 43 Taunton Green, Taunton, MA 02780, (508) 884-8820, http://www.nbmedical.com
- Retail Distributors LLC: 150 E. Palmetto Park Rd., #700, Boca Raton, FL 33432, (561) 391-2600, http://www.dtrttv.com
- Telebrands: 81 Two Bridges Rd., Fairfield, NJ 07004, (201) 244-0400, http://www.telebrands.com
- TriStar Products Inc.: 4 Century Dr., Parsippany, NJ 07054, (973) 683-1000, http://www.tristarproductsinc.com


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Thars Gold in Them Thar Hills!
Three American History books aimed at fourth and fifth grade and two books for high school I have at my disposal all tell the tale of the discovery of gold in California along with the large numbers of people who headed to the region to get rich.
Students examine how the gold-miner wannabees reached California. In some classrooms the situation is used to teach a bit of economics regarding the law of supply and demand and of course, Levi Strauss is always brought up regarding his contribution to the blue jean industry. Other points are also brought up. For example, the Gold Rush in California caused discrimination since so many ethnic groups ended up living close together, yet it also increased the population to the point California became a state in 1850.
The California Gold Rush a valid point in American history that should be taught. I have no problem with it per se, but what about other gold rushes?
What about other great finds of gold other than the one that occurred at Sutter's Mill?
Poor little Conrad Reed is often shortchanged in the credit department regarding history, and I'm really not sure why. I'm mean afterall….one of the ways we interest kids in history is by pointing out that kids make history just as often as adults….and little twelve year old Conrad made history in the best way possible.
One day in 1799, while walking along the creek bed on his father's farm in Cabarrus County, North Carolina little Conrad found a rather large rock….actually it was a nugget of gold, but no one realized it for three years while the nugget served as a door stop. At 17-pounds it was a rather large nugget, and once it was identified as gold, Conrad's discovery ushered in the very first North American gold rush.
Yes, the very first gold rush was not in California….it was in the South.
Part of teaching the American Revolution, of course, involves introducing students to the use of Hessian soldiers by the British, but what we rarely tell students is sometimes the Hessians remained in the newly formed United States and contributed to American society in different ways. Conrad's father, John Reed aka Johannes Reith (one suggested spelling), was one of those Hessians who stayed behind after the Patriots won independence. During the war Reed had actually abandoned his post outside of Savannah and never looked back.
While John Reed might have been an excellent farmer he was very uneducated in the gold department and allowed a jeweler to purchase the nugget for $3.50 (a whole week's wages at that time) and only later discovered the nugget was actually worth $3,600.
Not wanting to be taken again Reed began mining gold on his property and soon after a slave by the name of Peter found a 28-pound nugget. At his death in 1845 John Reed died a very rich man.
You can visit the Reed Gold Mine site here.
American Philatelist has an interesting article here regarding gold mining in North Carolina.
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- Dan Edwards said...
Nice post.....and wasn't the Gold Rush in Georgia a factor in the eventual forced removal of the Cherokee ?
Geological influences in history are a sadly far too often ignored aspect of history. And, how many students know of the problems caused by gold for the Sioux (Lakota) after the discovery of gold in their sacred Black Hills ? Or how many students have ever heard of the Klondike or Nome, Alaska ? Or, as for gold in California, the fact that the spanish/Mexicans had discovered minute amounts of gold in southern California years prior to James Marshall's big find in the Sierra foothills ?
Gold in Australia, South Africa....
Hope your school year is off to a "GOLDEN" start !
Thanks! This couldn't have come at a better time . . . I start teaching 4th grade Social Studies this morning here in eastern NC and this story makes a great hook!
- Legaleagle said...
Absolutely fabulous information! Well written. Thank you, TEACHER!
- EHT said...
Thank you everyone. I appreciate it.
Polski, you are very right about Georgia. I plan on writing something about that very soon.
There's a little bit of mythbusting to do with the gold rush in Georgia as well.
- James Stripes said...
Gold rushes were central to the dispossession of the Cherokee, Nez Perce, Sioux, Cheyenne, and the California and Alaska tribes.
Gold rushes today are disrupting lives of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
- James Stripes said...
I should have made clear that the gold rushes in western Montana put the Sioux and Cheyenne at war protecting their hunting grounds a decade before the gold rush to the Black Hills.
Sorry I didn't read the first comment before posting mine.
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Warmest day of the winter greeted the Phillies as all 58 players worked out for the first time on Day 6. They were also greeted by the biggest fan turnout I've seen for the first full day.
When infielders took infield at 11 a.m., it was standing room only in the bleacher areas between the Schmidt and Ashburn fields. The "A" infield was on the Schmidt field. Batting practice against the coaching staff began 30 minutes later on four different fields. The fans spread out then as the big names were spread over the four fields.
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Day 7 is tomorrow, much the same schedule. In a couple of days, BP is enhanced as pitchers will be throwing to hitters, instead of coaches. That usually means there will be a few broken bats.
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"1967 in Clearwater. Wore #54. Stayed at the Fort Harrison Hotel with all the players and staff. One of the neatest things was going to Clearwater and the drive from the airport, all the beautiful palm trees and the water and then going to work and trying to save a position ever year. All the preparation for spring training every year always led to aches and pains the first day. No matter how hard you worked at home, it was the same every spring. I loved spring training. It was a time to bring your family to Clearwater for six weeks or more, spend time on the beach and spend time with other families. I loved every minute of it. Every year I was on the ledge because I was a utility player and someone was always trying to get my job. I was lucky enough to hang on for a few years and have a great mediocre career."
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Great quote by Harmon lol