Peg Leg Liars Contest
If you’re going to lie, you might as well make it a whopper — and at Peg Leg Liar’s Contest in Anza Borrego State Park you’re not going to win if you don’t tell the best darned story there ever was. Each year on the first Saturday in April story tellers converge at a dry and barren spot with only faded signs to mark it, ready to try their material out on the tough audience and judges. They do it in honor of ‘Peg Leg’ Thomas L. Smith, a spinner of tales and miner who spread gems about riches & wealth to be had in California. True or not, the many stories that spread around the globe during the California gold rush of the mid-1800s pushed the sparsely populated state of 150,000 to 1 million in 35 short years, 2 million by 1905; 3 million by 1915; 5 million by 1925; and 1 million new residents on average every 2.5 years (approx.) since!
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