More than a century on the Big Sur coast
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A month before it burned, I turned seventy at the cabin and took my grandchildren up Plaskett Ridge to a swing that hangs out over the ocean. That swing is now 875 feet inside the fire. The cabin is 820 feet outside it.
From Mabel’s pen
The dance is over, but the waltz won't leave her — a young woman haunted by one last melody.
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William Cruikshank Sr. (c. 1830-?) was among the earliest miners in the Los Burros Mining District. PIONEER MINER: Arrived in the Los Burros area by the mid-1870s. He kept the first mining records for the district, with entries dating from 1875 - the earliest official records of mining activity in …
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For three days every September, Jolon filled with music, horses and lace for Mexican Independence Day.
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Phil McGuire of Gorda could look at your face and hand you your portrait minutes later.
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At Carson Sink in 1848, the Plaskett wagon company fell in with John C. Frémont's party.
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No physician within a hundred miles — so the William & Mary man nursed the cholera camps of Sacramento, and set the coast's bones ever after.
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His father fought the Revolution; his uncle crossed the Delaware. William Lucas came from fighting stock.
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In 1898 Linwood Mitchell packed Luther Burbank's cuttings down the coast and planted a legend.
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