Category: Events

Earth Day

The 4th Annual Big Sur Earth Day Fair, sponsored by B-SAGE (Big Sur Advocates for a Green Environment) is Sunday, April 10th at the Henry Miller Library from 1-5:00.

Free.
Park and take the shuttle from the turnout at mile marker 44.3, just south of Post Ranch Inn on the ocean side of the highway, or take the bus (Line 22) to Nepenthe and walk the 1/4 mile to the Library

Children’s activities, handmade/ upcycled crafts, delicious food, bike smoothie, music, info on fracking & prizes will demonstrate our theme, “Celebrate Clean Air and Water.”

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Nowhere is our real home … Community and Identity in the New West

From Henry Miller Memorial Library

A new speakers series exploring how developing areas in the West can maintain their wild character in our “virtual age.”

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As you read this, it’s a sunny late-March weekday morning here on the coast, and approximately 85 cars are parked along Highway 1 near Big Sur Station.

It feels like July, but it’s late March.

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If there was any doubt, it’s official now. The world is hip to Big Sur. The genie’s out of the bottle.

And this increased popularity, as we all know, brings with it a whole host of challenges affecting the land the visitors and the residents.

Workers’ housing. Short-term rentals. Traffic congestion. Public access curtailed. Clogged up vistor’s parking. Garbage in the wilderness. The commercialization of neighborhoods. Drones. (Yes, drones.)…

If you are concerned about these issues and what Big Sur will look in five, 10, 25 years, we encourage you to come to the Henry Miller Library on April 3rd at 4 pm.

We’ll be launching our new speaking series,
Nowhere Is Our Real Home:
Community and Identity in the New West.

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Across the summer, some of the country’s most thoughtful conservationists, historians, and naturalists will talk about how developing areas can maintain their wild character in our “virtual age.”

Our inaugural speaker will be David Gessner, award-winning author of All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West and nine other books.
David will discuss his own “post-regionalist philosophy” about what home and its relationship to the wild might mean now, using Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, and Wendell Berry as touchstones.

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Future speakers include Kenneth Brower (above; June 5th, Not Man Apart), Malcolm Margolin (July 31st, Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786), and Don Usner (Aug. 7th The Natural History of Big Sur).

More speakers will be added as the spring turns into summer. To learn more about this series, click here.

To RSVP for David’s talk on April 3rd please visit the library website. This talk is by donation.
Welcome!

Henry Miller Memorial Library | http://www.henrymiller.org | 831-667-2574

Big Sur Flow Study Presentation

Big Sur Flow Study Meeting March 24, 2016,
Grange Hall 3:00 – 5:00 pm

The Department of Fish and Wildlife will present the results of the recently completed Big Sur flow study. At the time the Big Sur Watershed Management Plan was completed, flow study results were not available. This is an opportunity for interested community members to learn about the results of the study and ask questions. Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.

photo credit: Margie Whitnah (she shares the location, date, and history of this shot in the comment section below.)

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CPOA annual meeting

Save the date! The Big Sur Coast Property Owners Association will conduct its 2015, year-end Annual Meeting on Tuesday, December 15th from 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM at the Big Sur Grange Hall.

NEW INFO: Ms. Casey Lucius, one of the announced candidates for the US Senate seat now held by Sam Farr will introduce herself at this meeting. You may ask questions and get some insight on her positions to issues as they may affect the Big Sur Community.

Representatives from the US Forest Service will be on hand to report and take questions from the audience on news and issues affecting local residents.

Supervisor Potter will be on hand as well as a Monterey County Planning Official to update the new Short Term Rental ordinance process.

State Senator Bill Monning has been invited and may attend if possible. There will also be an update on the community process for aligning the California Coastal Trail through the Big Sur planning area.

All Big Sur residents are encouraged to attend.

Thanks to all our veterans

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For all you veterans, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has free admission for all active, retired military and veterans with appropriate ID on Veterans Day.  Also, many places like Applebee’s are offering a free meal for all veterans. Thank our veterans and remember our fallen.