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...There's a lot of loose talk about this being the most beautiful spot in the world," mused Architect Nathaniel Owings last week. "Well, it is.'' More and more people are coming to agree with him about the stretch of Cali fornia coastline known as Big Sur. thereby causing Architect Owings and his fellow settlers much mental anguish. He and the settlers were glad to have people look on Big Sur's beauty. But if too many lookers decided to stay, it would no longer be worth looking at. Today, thanks to a combination of thoughtful...
Untamed & Drenched. The first Californians. the Spanish, called it El Sur Grande, the Big South - a wild and wonderful coastline that begins 150 miles south of San Francisco where the Santa Lucia mountains plunge vertiginously into the foam-fringed Pacific, then soars and tumbles along 72 miles of redwood-studded promontories, bare earth cliffs and sandy beaches to San Luis Obispo. 200 miles north of Los Angeles. And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty...
Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller settled at Big Sur in 1944, found it a place "of grandeur and of eloquent silence," and attracted a group of pre-beatnik sandal wearers of all sexes, who gathered evenings for drinks and folk dancing at Nepenthe, once the house of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth but now the region's most famous and almost only tavern, run by an intellectual refugee from San Francisco named Bill Fassett. Then came another brand of fugitive to Big Sur's beauty, such as retired Editor-Publisher William L. Chenery. ex-Diplomat-Journalist Nicholas...
...Doctors. Somewhere along the line, Joan Baez' family became Quakers, but Joan herself is not a Friend. "Living is my religion," she says. She practices it currently on California's rugged coast. She has lived there for more than a year, including eight months in the Big Sur region in a squalid cabin with five cats and five dogs. The cabin was a frail barque adrift on a sea of mud, and sometimes when Joan opened...
...SUR (241 pp.)-Jack Kerouac-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...