Santa Lucia Mountains
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.
mabel poem
The Paulsen Place
Under a sheltering white oak on the San Antonio River, a weary pilgrim finds the Paulsen Place — and peace for a tired soul.
place history
Return to Mill Creek: Walking Mabel's Childhood Home
A hike up the Mill Creek Trail toward the old Sans sawmill site — the canyon where Mabel Sans Plaskett grew up.
gold mines
The Los Burros Mining District and the Lost Town of Manchester
Organized 1876, transformed by Willey Cruikshank's Last Chance strike in 1887 — and gone by 1897, burned and grown over. The rise and fall of the coast's gold district, and the lost town of Manchester.
gold mines
Ed and Lawson Plaskett - Gold Mining Dreams
Ed and Lawson Plaskett chased the rumor every coast man heard — that gold waited in the home hills.
mabel article
Camaldoli Hermits Live in Seclusion
Behind a mosaic sign south of Lucia, white-robed monks keep medieval silence on 600 acres above the Pacific.
mabel article
Camp Pico Blanco Is Ideal For Scout Summer Activity
In the Ventanas — 'the Windows' — below Pico Blanco, the Boy Scouts made a summer camp of the old Harlan country.
mabel article
Forget Your Worldly Cares At Nepenthe Restaurant
'Wherever you may go, people ask about Nepenthe' — the cliff-top restaurant where the coast forgets its worldly cares.
mabel article
Jolon Remembered as Thriving Community on Camino Real
Portolá camped there in 1769; a century later Jolon was the thriving crossroads of the Camino Real — saloons, hotels, and fiestas three days long.
mabel article
Mabel Relives Days of Her Youth Spent on Mill Creek
'Mill Creek is my favorite, filled with memories of my childhood' — Mabel returns to her father's sawmill country. Companion to our Return to Mill Creek photo story.
mabel article
Mother Krenkel- A Coast Legend
City-bred Margaret Krenkel rode a mule to her own wedding at Los Burros and dug her well by hand — the real-life 'Hannah' of the coast.
mabel article
Plaskett Creek Campground Is Popular Vacation Spot
The campground at Plaskett Creek sits on the family's first homesite — Mabel tells how the pioneers came over the Indian trails from Jolon.
mabel article
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.
mabel article
South Monterey County Writers Part II
A 2007 appreciation of Mabel herself — 'Belle' Sans Plaskett with her horse Cleo — by historian Susan Raycraft.
mabel poem
Poems by Mabel Plaskett
A small gathering of Mabel's verse, opening with her poem for Mary Kirwan.
story
The Bear Hunt Gone Wrong - Men Fall on Bear
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.
story
Alice Eastwood and Reezy Plaskett: The Plants of the Plaskett Coast
In five months of collecting, a self-taught Big Sur carpenter sent Alice Eastwood six plants new to science — and she named two of them for him.
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.
- Dave Moro · 3 stories
- Ed Dutton · 3 stories
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973 · 3 stories
- Henry Kilsdonk · 3 stories
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964 · 3 stories
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964 · 3 stories
- Alice Dutton · 2 stories
- Alvis Davis · 2 stories
- James M. Krenkel 1862–1943 · 2 stories
- Joe Moro · 2 stories
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966 · 2 stories
- Linwood Mitchell 1860– · 2 stories
- Polk Fancher 1895– · 2 stories
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933 · 2 stories
- Roy Mitchell · 2 stories
- William D. "Willey" Cruikshank 1862–1937 · 2 stories
- William Lucas Plaskett 1818–1909 · 2 stories
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Angie Potter
- Augusta Stringle Cruikshank
- Bob Digges
- Byron Gianavil Plaskett 1846–1911
- Calvin Coolidge
- Carsten Voss 1835–
- Cayatan Canietti
- Don Pancho Estrada
- Dudley Plaskett 1869–1949
- Father Juan Cabot
- Francis Marion Plaskett 1854–1906
- Frank Digges
- Gabriel Fontes 1850–
- George Dutton
- Henry Melville
- Jessie Anderson
- John D. Cruikshank
- Jose Estrada
- Joseph C. Sebastian
- Joseph Clark
- Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo
- Kimberly Dawn Mueller Alderson 1964–
- Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett 1848–1918
- Leopold Frankl
- Louise Sebastian
- Mabel Sans 1831–1932
- Manuel Sebastian
- Margaret Krenkel
- Marno Dutton
- Marno Dutton Thompson
- Mary Cayetano Sebastian
- Nick Yost –1954
- Norman Hansen
- Orval Olmstead
- Orville Olmstead
- Paul Harlan
- Ray Thompson
- Robert Plaskett 1835–1908
- Sans Plaskett 1857–1931
- Senator George Hearst
- Thomas Edison
- Will Voss 1858–