Stories from Carmel-by-the-Sea and the Monterey Peninsula
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Where the Sheep Still Graze: An Evening at Mission Ranch
An 1850s dairy, a wartime officers’ club, and very nearly a condominium development — Mission Ranch survives as Carmel’s living room: thirty-one…
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The Volunteers Who Keep the Village: Inside Carmel Cares
From the Scenic Pathway to the Forest Theater’s benches, the all-volunteer corps of Carmel Cares tends the village one street corner at…
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One Acre of Wild California: The Lester Rowntree Native Plant Garden
Hidden inside Carmel’s Mission Trail Nature Preserve, a volunteer-tended acre of manzanita, sage, and wildflowers honors Lester Rowntree — the self-taught botanist…
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The Shape of the Market: Carmel and Pebble Beach at Mid-2026
Our first standing market report: what the mid-2026 numbers say about how people choose to live between Carmel Point and the Del…
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A Slow Weekend in Paso Robles
Two and a half hours from Carmel, no flight, no schedule: a two-night itinerary built around one wine road, two historic inns,…
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Ninety-Nine Years at Gray Gables: The Carmel Art Association Nears Its Centennial
On August 8, 1927, nineteen artists gathered at a cottage called Gray Gables and founded what became the oldest continuously operating gallery…
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The Vineyard Whisperer: Ian Brand and Monterey’s Overlooked Vines
The San Francisco Chronicle’s 2018 Winemaker of the Year works not in Napa but from a Salinas warehouse, championing the Central Coast’s…
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The Farm Beneath the Wharf: Monterey’s Hidden Abalone Harvest
Beneath Monterey’s 1926 commercial wharf, some 250 cages hold more than a quarter-million red abalone, fed weekly with hand-harvested kelp. The most…
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The Stage in the Pines: A Century at Carmel’s Forest Theater
Founded in 1910 among the pines above the village, the Forest Theater is one of the oldest outdoor theaters in the American…
