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
Stepping off the train after two years away — her love letter to King City, the town at the end of the coast families' long road.
Family spotlight
John Plascatt (Plaskett) of Whitehaven, Cumberland, England. Found in parish records of St. Bees and St. Nicholas, Whitehaven. Parish records show children of John Plascat/Plascatt of Whitehaven: - Jan 1696: Anne, daughter of John Plascat - Feb 17, 1698: William, son of John Plascatt (possible immi…
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Marie Lopez rode against the best at Salinas Big Week and carried home the trophies.
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George Ames was fourteen when he hired on with Jim Prewitt — and the bunkhouse tales grew from there.
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Victor Girard built a redwood-pole palace above Lime Kiln in 1925. His empire lasted a decade.
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Girard's men shot deer whenever he pleased — until a game warden checked what he was driving home to Los Angeles.
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The Redwood School opened in 1878 in a building Michael Dani notched together without a single nail.
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The Plaskett brothers crossed the mountains to raise St. Luke's at Jolon, stained glass and all, in 1879.
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