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
The strangest of all the Big Sur characters: Jaime de Angulo — Paris-born doctor, cowboy, linguist — riding the ridges as a symbol of man's right to be free.
Family spotlight
Son of John Plaskett of Whitehaven. Emigrated to America. Married Margaret Lucas Margerum (a widow) on October 29, 1734 at the Quaker meeting house at the Falls, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The "Lucas" name would be passed down through generations, eventually becoming the middle name of William Lu…
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The campground at Plaskett Creek sits on the family's first homesite — Mabel tells how the pioneers came over the Indian trails from Jolon.
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How the valley was settled: William Lucas Plaskett's family clearing lilac 'grown to the dimension of small trees' — her classic account of the family's beginning.
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A small gathering of Mabel's verse, opening with her poem for Mary Kirwan.
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Post's hill is the very heart of Big Sur — named for W.B. Post, who landed at a coast whaling station in 1850 and built a ranch that outlived the century.
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'My earliest memories are of playing house in a hollow redwood' — Mabel on the big trees, oldest of living things and the coast's proudest possession.
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Spanish embargoes, shipwrecks on the white rocks, and the Fresnel light that finally kept the coast's shippers on course at Piedras Blancas.
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