America's Home of the Cornish!
Welcome to the Cornish American Heritage Society, whose mission is to promote and preserve the Heritage of Cornish settlers.
Website Updated as of: 06/19/2010
Winners for 2010 are:
Ashley Moyle, Mattawan High School, Mattawan, Michigan was awarded $500 for her essay The influence of the Cornish.
Justine Hovden, Badger High School, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin was awarded $500 for her essay Mineral Point: Hills of Cornish History
Hannah Nickelson, graduate of Batavia High School, Batavia, Illinois was awarded $300 for her poem America Waits.
The 2011 Steven R. Curnow Memorial Competition is open for all students. $1000 prize for the winning entry. Second and third prizes awarded also. Deadline for entries March 31, 2011. More information here.
NOTICE - CALL FOR PRESENTERS, 2011 GATHERING.
2011 Gathering, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Presenters are needed for the 2011 Gathering, Minerial Point, Wisconsin. Share your knowledge of Cornish history, language, music, heritage, geneology, and/or research with others. Please read the attached Call for Presenters document and plan to participate. Presenters will receive free registration for the Gathering.
Call for Presenters document, here.
NOTICE - CHANGE - NOTICE !!!!!!!!! UPDATED 4/28/2010
2011 Gathering, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
The dates for the gathering have changed to Wednesday, August 10, 2011 through Sunday, August 14, 2011. Headquarters for the Gathering will be the Mineral Point High School, which has complete handicap access and plenty of parking. If you would like to be a part of and help with this significant event, please contact any of the Board members. This notice will be updated as more information becomes available.
UPDATE - LATEST NEWS !!!!!!!!!
Members' Services Now Online
Active members of CAHS now have a blog, forum, photo gallery, and newsletter archive available online. Instructions for logging in to the members' area will be in the Summer issue of the newsletter and are available here.
If your membership expired in 2009, you must renew to continue receiving the newsletter and to access the members' services area.
Log In To Members Services Area
CFHS records are now available in Southwest Wisconsin at two locations, Platteville and Mineral Point. Record access is free, documents can be ordered for a small fee. See the details here.
What We Do
Visit our information page for Mission Statement, Officers, History, Publications, Gatherings, and Our University of Wisconsin Archives. here
Visit our projects page for Global Migration Project, CFHS Records, Steven Curnow Memorial, Paul Smales Award, The West Briton Project, Founders Award, and Heritage Certificates. here
Who We Are
Way down to the southwest tip of the Isle of Great Britain is a land of mystery, myth, and magic ... a land of a Celtic people, the Cornish.
The Cornish are fisherfolk, farmers, miners and merchants, scholars, saints, sometimes law-breakers -- above all, they are people of an extraordinary clan in an extraordinary land -- and they know it. They revere it and love it. They celebrate their present in light of their past, looking always to the future for the generations to come.
And so do we. We are descendants of Cornish people who emigrated to the Americas. Though we are no longer in the land of our heritage, we are linked to Cornwall by blood and by the tug of our hearts. Some of our members are Cornish people still living in Cornwall...joined to their cousins in the Americas for the good of all.
Wherever you are in the world, whatever your Cornish ties or interests, you are welcome here.
The people of CAHS celebrate Cornwall and the Cornish in many ways. Our members search, save, create and pass on to the rest of us Cornish songs, poetry, legend, history, photos and food. We do love our food. :-)
Many of us are involved in tracing our family trees, so genealogy and record-keeping are important to us. We each get to have some part in maintaining the ties between Cornish people around all the world, if only through this site.
However you want to take part in all this, is more than fine with us. Wander around the site, email your questions, become a member.
Let this site be your introduction to all things Cornwall -- and let our gatherings, whether in local society, the Gatherings of Cornish Cousins in the Americas, or the Grand Homecoming to Cornwall called Dehwelans -- let these be moments help you form a long and lasting relationship with all things Cornish.
