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Start your tour at the Asilomar
Conference Grounds, located on Asilomar Blvd. off of Sunset
Drive. From Asilomar Blvd., enter the grounds of the Wm. Penn
Mott Jr. Training Center through the Eastwoods section and follow
the road towards the left, in the direction of the Fireside section.
The small building called Guest Inn is. . . |
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The name Asilomar was coined by Helen Salisbury, a Stanford
University student, and can be loosely translated as "refuge
by the sea." Started in 1913, when the Pacific Improvement
Company (Del Monte Properties' predecessor) deeded 30 seaside
acres to the YWCA, Asilomar is a unique meeting place with a
long history as a serene setting where people gather to exchange
ideas and find inspiration.
In 1956, the conference grounds were transferred to State
ownership and are now a unit of the California State Park System.
The grounds have grown to over 100 acres and are dedicated to
a natural ecological environment that is sheltered by ancient
Monterey pines and extends over rolling sand dunes. Several buildings
at Asilomar were designed by architect Julia
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Steinbeck's sister, Esther Steinbeck Rodgers,
and her husband, Carrol, owned this house from the 1930s to the
1950s. Steinbeck called it "Esther's house in the woods
in P.G." He brought Gwen Conger here, and also used the
house as a private refuge where he could write. Part of the narrative
portion of Sea of Cortez was written in a cabin
that Steinbeck described as hidden in a pine woods amidst sand
dunes, and this house fits that description. |
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Continue on Asilomar Blvd., crossing Lighthouse Avenue. On
your right is the cemetery. Enter the gates and park. You are
now at. . .
EL CARMELO CEMETERY/LITTLE CHAPEL BY-THE-SEA CREMATORY |
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