More than a century on the Big Sur coast
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Her earliest known piece, under the pen name Belinda Brown - eighteen years before Coast Trails. How Cox's Hole became Pacific Valley, who named it, and the July the family left Fresno because San Joaquin was getting “too thickly settled”.
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Part one of her history of the coast schools — starting with the Redwood School of 1878, built of notched logs without a single nail.
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Wife of Captain William Plaskett. Sister of Captain George Pollard Jr., commander of the whaleship Essex which was sunk by a sperm whale in 1820 - the disaster that inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick.…
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Where does Big Sur begin and end? Mabel settles it, then takes you the whole way — San Simeon to Point Lobos, stop by stop. Now with our interactive map and free PDF drive guide.
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'Wherever you may go, people ask about Nepenthe' — the cliff-top restaurant where the coast forgets its worldly cares.
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Giant-strong Henry Melville came to Los Burros for the gold — and left stories they still tell: robbers thrown from his cabin, a loaded wagon lifted bare-handed.
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Part one of her history of the coast schools — starting with the Redwood School of 1878, built of notched logs without a single nail.
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Part two: Pacific Valley School — kept since 1880 on the east side of the highway at Plaskett Creek — and the teachers who came to the edge of the world.
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Luther Burbank's cuttings came down the coast in 1898 with Linwood Mitchell — and the mountain orchards still bear the evidence.
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