This week I’m revisiting a Christmas-themed episode of California’s Gold, one I originally featured back in December 2016. The Sixteen to One Mine that appears in this segment opened in 1896 and is still in operation. I don’t know about you, but I’m still finding it hard to wrap my mind around the fact that Christmas is a mere 12 days away! Despite the very cold nighttime temperatures here, part of me wants to believe that I’ve still got plenty of time. Maybe taking another look at this Classic episode, originally aired on December 27, 2003, will help me wake up to the fact that it’s time to get into the holiday spirit…

In this holiday special, Huell celebrates the holidays with the descendants of the original Cornish Carol Choir of Grass Valley. Join them as they reenact their 1940 concert of traditional Cornish Christmas carols, which took place 2,000 feet below ground in a gold mine, and was broadcast nationally on network radio. Huell travels below the Earth into a mine to discover what it was like for a Cornish miner to sing hymns for Christmas Day.

(Click on the linked image below to see the video.)