Spruce Creek
A creek in the Santa Lucias above the Big Sur coast, inland of Gorda. Reason Plaskett collected the type specimen of Ribes sericeum — the Santa Lucia Gooseberry — here in December 1897; Alice Eastwood described the species from it.
Stories set here
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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.
The people of Spruce Creek
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.
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Reason Alpha Plaskett 1852–1933
- William Lucas Plaskett 1818–1909