Stories from Carmel-by-the-Sea and the Monterey Peninsula
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The Grande Dame of Carmel
The Grande Dame of Carmel: how a 1905 stone mansion built by painter Chris Jorgensen for chocolate heiress Angela Ghirardelli became La…
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Stone by Stone
Tor House, the granite cottage Robinson Jeffers raised by hand on Carmel Point, is autobiography set in stone. A look at how…
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The House Bing Built
Founded in 1949 by Bing Crosby and the last of the 200-plus youth centers he helped create, the Carmel Youth Center endures…
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Shakespeare Under the Pines
Under the pines of Carmel’s 1910 Forest Theater, PacRep’s late-summer Carmel Shakespeare Festival carries on a tradition first begun in 1940. A…
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First Fruit
A late-summer portrait of Folktale Winery & Vineyards in Carmel Valley, where an old-world chateau, a coastal winemaker, and the rituals of…
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Julia Morgan’s Quiet Masterpiece: The Arts-and-Crafts Soul of Asilomar
Before Hearst Castle, Julia Morgan spent fifteen years building a village of stone and timber into the dunes of Pacific Grove. A…
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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…
