Legendary Locals of Carmel by the Sea by Lisa Crawford Watson

This author focuses on art, architechture and automobiles, health and lifestyle, and food and wine. But in her own words, “..always focuses on the people who brought such stories to life.”

Carmel by the Sea has a host of characters who simply called Carmel home. Perhaps drawn by the beauty of the area, they came to write, draw, photograph, teach and learn.

Ansel Adams, Jack London, Jane Smiley …………

The art galleries that line the streets of downtown Carmel today, weren’t always there. Find out how and who started Carmel.

From back cover:

A place whose history has long been a source of fable and fascination, Carmel-by-the-Sea is a community whose ancestors summered by the sea and ultimately stayed through the seasons. After founders Frank Powers and Frank Devendorf populated the once-barren potato patches with artists and academicians, it became a place defined as much by legends and landscape as by the characters who came to Carmel. Whether it is the clear light that attracted photographers Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Doug Steakley, and Bob Kolbrener; the whisper in the trees, the rhythm of the waves, and the stillness at dawn that seduced writers Mary Austin, Robinson Jeffers, Jack London, Bob Campbell, Rick Masten, and Jane Smiley; or the unbridled beauty in a majestic mountain, surging sea, or verdant valley that drew in artists Mary DeNeale Morgan, William F. Ritschel, E. Charlton Fortune, Mari Kloeppel, Carol Chapman, and Loet Vanderveen, the truth is that Carmel-by-the-Sea gets in ones soul and makes its home there.

 

 

Lisa Crawford Watson also co-wrote Eating With Grace: Eating With Grace: Learning to Feed Your Body and Nourish Your Life