EXHIBITION OF EARLY WEST CALAVERAS PHOTOGRAPHS

The public is invited to view "Something From Nothing: An Exhibition of Early West Calaveras Photographs," currently on display through November at Countrywide Mortgage in Valley Springs (in the Valley Oaks Shopping Center). The office is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit was created by the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History. Experience rarely seen photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries depicting the people and places of Valley Springs, Burson, Wallace, Jenny Lind and more. Many of these photographs have never been seen in public and none have previously been presented in this enhanced and enlarged format. Copies of one special photograph, "At Rest In Valley Springs," taken in 1910, is being offered, framed and matted, for a $25 donation to the SPWCH. Free brochures about the exhibit are also available. The exhibition was made possible by a grant from the Calaveras Community Foundation. Come by the Countrywide office and witness West Calaveras history like you have never seen it before!