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Turn-of-The-Century Feminist Anne Martin (by John Thompson)
Click on the link below to read about Anne Martin, an internationally respected suffragette and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate. Anne was lured to Carmel in 1921 by Mary Austin, a local poet and playwright who dreamed of turning Carmel into a center for progressive
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Aimee Slept Here (?)
(by John Thompson)
Read about Aimee McPherson, America's premier woman evangelist of the 1920s when she created heaslines on the Central Coast. Articles theorized about the mysterious disappearance of the flamboyant, copper-haired, Reverend Aimee. Aimee claimed that she had been kidnapped, but that was not the
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David Jacks Buys Monterey
John Thompson writes about a local character, David Jacks, who appeared in an unpublished book by Robert Louis Stevenson. Jacks was a rich Republican land developer who had an iron grip on the local economy. |
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Murder By The Sea
Here's another of John Thompson's illustrated stories about a murder that practically no one remembers. It's about two artists, Helen Smith and a man she had an affair with going by the name of George Kodani. In 1914 Helen disappeared and was found to be the victim in Carmel's first murder. |
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A brief Cartoon History of Author John Steinbeck's Local Heritage
Five John Thompson caricatures help retell the often repeated saga of local writer John Steinbeck. Several places in our area are devoted to his legacy and make up a cottage industry offering tourists a look into his life and times. |
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How Henry Miller Came to Live in Big Sur
Click on the link below to read about how local author Henry Miller came to live in Big Sur. There you will also find a link to the Henry Miller Memorial Library. Click HERE, to
go to our link to the Henry Miller Memorial Library. |
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The Monterey Peninsula Toy Box
Click on the link below to visit Jim Toy's website, where you'll find a long list of movies made in Carmel, some interesting information about the controversial Hatton Canyon Freeway Project, and an unofficial guide to the Monterey Peninsula, including Carmel. |
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General Stilwell Visits The Spiritual World
We ran into General Stilwell's daughter at the Post Office the other day. The Carmel Post Office is a great place to meet friends and chat, because that's where Carmelites have to get their mail. She revealed to us for the first time the spiritual beliefs of the World War II general and his
devoted wife. Click on the link below to read about his adventure into the spirit word with San Francisco medium Mrs. Becker. |
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Faces Out of A Dumpster
In our search for raw journalism material we occasionally dive into local dumpsters, gold mines of startling data for those trained in the science of "Garbology." Our passion for local history led us to the dumpster across from the Monterey Library, a site not far from the Monterey
Police Department. There among bundles of old yellowing Heralds and junk mail were neat boxes of approximately one scrillion negatives of police photos of people arrested in Carmel twenty five years ago. |
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Carmel's Historic Pine Inn
Built in 1889, Ocean Avenue's most famous hotel dates back to the efforts of Carmel-By-The-Sea's founders Frank Devendorf and Frank Powers. The new Pine Inn officially opened its doors on July 4, 1903. During the next few years, the Pine Inn was Carmel's most renowned architectural feature.
Today, the Pine Inn is one of the most famous Inns in Carmel. |
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Carmel's Masonic History
One part of Carmel's history that seems little known involves the heritage of Carmel's Masons. The Masonic lodge in Carmel dates back to 1935. The lore of Masonry is complex and is symbolized in hand-carved wooden decorations that grace the chambers of the Carmel Lodge on Lincoln south
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| The recent history of Carmel includes its most famous mayor, Clint Eastwood. In 1986, Clint ran for mayor and got a whopping 72.5 % of the vote. Click on the link below and visit Cal Anderson's web site about Clint's election and term as mayor of
Carmel, and a whole lot more about the man. |
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