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High & Dry: Caretaking the Ghosts of Cerro Gordo

January 26, 2017Dan Bonin

story by KCET, photographer Osceola Refetoff and writer/historian Christopher Langley

In the daylight, I found Cerro Gordo, a mining camp that dates back to the mid 1870s, a charming rustic collection of period houses and weathered wood skeletons on the verge of tumbling in on themselves.

Ah, but the night is quite different. Darkness envelopes me, as I caretake the ghosts here. As the sun drops over the hills to the west and the Sierra Nevada crest behind, the landscape transforms into shadows of beasts and other phantasmagoria…

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