Places

Mission San Antonio

Stories set here

mabel poem

A Day at Wesleys Spring

A day's ride up a steep mountain trail with two companions, to lie beneath the willows at Wesley's spring — a place that appears on no map. We found the ground: Wesley Plaskett's section in the Oat Hills, inland from Jolon.

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Dani Family History Is Told

A shelf of level land a thousand feet above the sea: the Dani place, where Gabriel Dani built a one-armed empire and Lucia got her name.

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San Simeon Rancho Story Is Told by Mabel Plaskett

Cabrillo's 'Bay of Sardines,' a whaling captain's store, the Hearst boys at play — four centuries of San Simeon in one telling. Sebastian's Store was 102 years old when she wrote it.

The people of Mission San Antonio

Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.

Born, lived, or died at Mission San Antonio