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9 unusual facts about Big Sur


Doug Toby

As of November 2010, Doug works as a realtor in the Big Sur area of California.

Lathrop Brown

He studied monetary theory at the Graduate School of Harvard University from 1928 to 1932, afterwards moving to California's Big Sur, settling on a cattle ranch which later became Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.

Modern Nomad magazine

The Modern Nomad Festival, which was held at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur in June 2003, was fostered by Paul W. Jacob and attracted an array of artists and patrons from throughout the United States and Canada.

Mountainhood

Michael Curtis Hilde first began writing and recording while living in the Big Sur redwoods.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

The Federal government's stance at the time was that the Great Lakes were the "third coast" and had to be preserved much like Cape Hatteras or Big Sur, which are National Seashores.

Stanislav Grof

In 1973, he was invited to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and lived there until 1987 as a scholar-in-residence, developing his ideas.

The Los Dos Bros

Both were recorded in June 2007 (with drummer, Michael Taylor Hahn) at Red Barn Studios in Big Sur, California, owned by Al Jardine of The Beach Boys.

The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper is one of the very few major studio pictures ever filmed in Big Sur, and the story is specifically set there.

William Turnbull, Jr.

Turnbull worked on a Big Sur revitalization project, which may have had a factor in developing his lifelong connection to California.


Anna Gerasimova

Her most significant published translations include Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums (1994) and Big Sur (2002).

Carmel River School

River School students not only live in the Carmel area, but travel to school from as far south as Rocky Point in Big Sur, east into part of Carmel Valley, and north into Pebble Beach.

Funk art

Some notable cities where the Funk movement was concentrated in consisted of Berkeley, Marin County, Big Sur, and North Beach.

Nacimiento-Fergusson Road

Nacimiento-Fergusson Road is the only road across the Santa Lucia Range in the Central Coast of California, connecting California State Route 1 and the Big Sur coast to U.S. Route 101 and the Salinas Valley.

Ohlone mythology

One Ohlone creation myth begins with the demise of a previous world: When it was destroyed, the world was covered entirely in water, apart from a single peak, Pico Blanco (north of Big Sur) in the Rumsien version (or Mount Diablo in the northern Ohlone's version) on which Coyote, Hummingbird, and Eagle stood.

PacSun

Working with photographers Nicholas Maggio, Harper Smith and Andrew Kuykendall, PacSun has looked to capture the beauty and imagination of California through lifestyle imagery from such places as Lake Arrowhead, Los Angeles, Malibu, Pismo Beach, Big Sur, and San Francisco.


see also

Bruce Reitherman

Nature (1982) TV Series (episode "The Living Edens: Big Sur - California's Wild Coast")

The Living Edens"?title=1997 in television">1997) TV Series (episodes " Big Sur: California's Wild Coast (2002),Thailand: Jewel of the Orient (1999),Denali: Alaska's Great Wilderness (1997)")

Esselen people

The Esalen Institute in Big Sur is named after this tribe as is Boy Scouts of America Monterey Bay Area Council Order of the Arrow Esselen Lodge #531.

The Sandpiper

The film includes many location shots of Big Sur landmarks, including Pfeiffer Beach, Point Lobos State Reserve, Bixby Creek Bridge, the Coast Gallery (where Laura exhibits her artwork), and a pivotal scene shot on a sound stage built to resemble the restaurant Nepenthe.