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”.
From Mabel’s pen
Where the Nacimiento road tops the divide, Mill Creek springs to life — and once powered the sawmills of the Lucias, including her father's.
Family spotlight
U.S. Delegate to Congress from the U.S. Virgin Islands since 2015. First woman and first African American to represent the Virgin Islands in Congress. Born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from the Virgin Islands. Graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. Served as Senior Counsel in the Deputy Atto…
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The plan was flawless: wait in the tree above the bear's kill. Nobody consulted gravity — or the bear. A true Plaskett Creek comedy, retold.
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Mrs. Trescony, who lived to 97, remembered the day the bandit Vasquez came to her parents' Priest Valley ranch as a charming young man.
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