Dining

Pebble Beach Food and Wine April 4-7, 2024

Get ready to dive into the ultimate culinary experience on the Central Coast! Since its debut in 2008, Pebble Beach Food & Wine has become a must-do extravagance. Think of

Music & Performing Arts

Carmel Bach Festival July 13-27

The Carmel Bach Festival, held annually in the picturesque coastal town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, is a vibrant celebration of classical music that has enchanted audiences for over 80 years. This

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Carmel Serra Wine

Serra arrived in California in 1779, founding the San Diego Mission where the state’s first grapes were grown to make sacramental wine mostly for the Eucharist, and for medicinal purposes.

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ESSELENE 1936 HISTORY PROJECT

In 1992 the third issue of Carmel’s paper “Freedom Of Speech”, as part of the town’s 75th anniversary published an article about a 1936 WPA Local History Project that interviewed

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JAIME D’ANGULO Y MAYO

There is something more than enchanting about the sands of Carmel Beach, the sound of the breeze in the cypress boughs, and the cold currents in the bay. That undefinable

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Slanderous Accusations About Serra y Los Indios

Anti Catholic efforts of the KKK and other groups here on California’s Central Coast intentionally misrepresent Blessed Serra as well as the native families he knew. These efforts peaked in

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Turn-of-The-Century Feminist: Anne Martin

Anne Martin, an internationally respected suffragette and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate was lured to Carmel in 1921 by Mary Austin, a local poet and playwright

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Aimee Slept Here?

The Jim Baker trial was a thoroughly entertaining media extravaganza that rivaled the most sensational trial in Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties. The plight of 35-year-old Aimee McPherson, America’s

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Congnitive Linguistics & Esselen Language

Neural functions in the brain reflected in how coastal Esselen tribes communicated. In the  COGLIN  work of Prof. George Lakoff (UCB). Prof. Ivan Strang (Stanford) and Prof Paul Ekman (UCSF; expert

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Faces Of The Divine Feminine

Beauty can take so many forms in the human face, features that one doesnt see everyday on TV & films. A woman’s face can communicate expressions that can’t just be