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Point
Pinos
Lighthouse and
Emily, courtesy
California
Views
Elmarie Dyke Open Space,
on 16th Street
Edward F. Ricketts,
photo courtesy
California
Views
Stone carving
outside
Clark Ashton Smith's
former residence.
John Steinbeck
bust
and photo by
Jesse Corsaut
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Joseph
Campbell |
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Joseph Campbell was a noted interpreter
of mythology. |
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Katherine
Bement Davis |
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New York City's
suffragist Correction Commissioner retired to Pacific Grove and
lived with her sister, Helen, who was the administrator of Asilomar
in the early 1930s. |
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Dianne
Day |
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Mystery and suspense
novelist, best known for her historical mystery series about
a woman who goes to San Francisco in search of more independence
in the early years of the twentieth century, Caroline Fremont
Jones. |
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John Denver |
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CNN story "John
Denver Killed in Plane Crash."
CNN story: "John
Denver crash report points to fuel problems." |
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Elmarie H. Dyke |
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Known as "Mrs.
Pacific Grove," her efforts ensured that Pacific Grove remained
(until 1969) the last dry town in California. A
small park,
next to Chautauqua Hall, has been dedicated to her memory. She
was also instrumental in reviving the Feast
of Lanterns. |
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Emily
Fish |
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Mrs. Fish was a lighthouse keeper,
socialite, and philanthropist. She is portrayed by actress Roo
Hornady at the Point Pinos lighthouse. For more information,
follow the lighthouse link from the Pacific
Grove Museum of Natural History's page. |
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Julia
Morgan |
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Noted Hearst Castle
architect who designed a number of buildings at Asilomar. Boutelle
notes, "Asilomar is perhaps the largest institutional complex
ever built in the Art and Crafts style." Morgan also designed
the two-story shingled residence at 104 1st Street. |
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Johnny
Miller |
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This golf legend has an ocean-front
home in Pacific Grove. |
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Julia
Platt |
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Pioneering neurobiologist
and civic leader, Dr. Platt became Pacific Grove's first female
mayor in 1932.
See Rita
Carratello's
page showing her Julia Platt impersonations.
The Inaugural
Scientific Meeting of the Julia
B. Platt Club
(Steven J. Zottoli and Ernst-August Seyfarth).
Short biography
of Julia
Platt
in the online PGMNH Chautauqua Years exhibit.
Abstract from article, "Julia B. Platt
(1857-1935): pioneer comparative embryologist and neuroscientist"
by SJ Zottoli and EA Seyfarth in Brain, Behavior, and Evolution
(1994;43(2):92-106). |
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Edward
Flanders Robb Ricketts |
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Marine Naturalist
and friend of Steinbeck's, Ricketts came to Pacific Grove in
the 1920s. The author of a landmark ecological work, Between
Pacific Tides, and the inspiration for "Doc" in
Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. |
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Tibor
Rudas |
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Rudas' offices are
at the Rudas Building at 199 17th Street (at Lighthouse Avenue).
Rudas is one of the great impresarios of classical music. From
international Pavarotti concerts to the Three Tenors performances,
his productions make an immense impact on the world of opera. |
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Clark
Ashton Smith |
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Once hailed as the
"Keats of the Pacific Coast," for his romantic poetry,
and later one of the masters of modern supernatural fiction,
Smith was also a stone carver. He lived in Auburn, California,
and is also known as "The
Bard of Auburn." His former home at 117 9th Street (at Lighthouse
Avenue) boasts a sample of his stone-cutting genius.To read more
about Ashton Smith on Alan Gullette's website, click here. |
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John
Steinbeck |
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Nobel and Pulitzer
Prize-winning author lived on and off at the cottage at 147 11th
Street. |
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Personalities |
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