“This is actually right up my alley,” Mr. Lammers noted. “We have been working on several historic structure reports for the Asilomar concessionaire. I would also like to add information about the mid-century work of John Carl Warnecke, including his additions to the original Asilomar dining hall, which is currently in the process of being rehabilitated.” It seems that we are in for a treat!
Refreshments will be served. Board members will be introduced and new officers for 2012 will be elected, so please plan to attend this important and interesting meeting.

As part of the lead-in to the show, Guild members created “Blooming Wonderful”, a 79″ by 85″ raffle quilt inspired by the vivid colors of Kaffe Fassett’s fabrics. The quilt is currently on display at Back Porch Fabrics. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5 and are available at Back Porch or from any Guild member. The drawing for Blooming Wonderful will be held at the close of the Quilt Show on Sunday, April 15. The show will also feature a display of miniature quilts created by local artists. During the show, visitors can enter to win one of these beautiful small-scale quilts.

Originally a joint project of the Heritage Society and the Guild, the quilt show is a part of the fabric of Pacific Grove. Proceeds from Quilts by the Bay support Guild programs and community projects.

The purpose of the MPQG are to preserve the heritage of the beauty, diligence and love embodied in those quilts that have been handed down to us; to acknowledge and encourage a concern for excellence of design and craftsmanship as we perpetuate this American Folk Art; to become a source of information, education and inspiration; to further the personal rewards of companionship among quilters sharing a common interest.

The Pacific Grove Public Library proudly celebrates Steinbeck’s 110th birthday with a hometown party!

When: Saturday, February 25, 2012
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Where: The Pacific Grove Public Library
550 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA

“John Steinbeck’s Pacific Grove years were among his most productive, his apprentice years, when he wrote The Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown, Tortilla Flat and began Of Mice and Men.” He loved…Pacific Grove…a town where he could immerse himself in his writing.” Dr. Susan Shillinglaw

1p.m. Long-time local actor, Keith Decker, will read from works written by Steinbeck while the author resided in Pacific Grove.

2p.m. “Steinbeck’s Epicenter: Pacific Grove” a lecture by Dr. Susan Shillinglaw, Steinbeck scholar and Professor of English, San José State University.

The event is free of charge. Refreshments will be served.

Hicks Stone

On Friday, March 23, 2012 at 7 pm, The Heritage Society of Pacific Grove Lecture Series is proud to present Hicks Stone at the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center on the P.G. Middle School Campus.

In this slide lecture, Stone’s youngest son and biographer, Hicks Stone, himself a practicing architect, documents the breadth of his father’s life and career. The lecture coincides with the debut of his book, Edward Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect, being published by Rizzoli.

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Hicks Stone is the founder and principal of Stone Architecture, LLC located in New York City, NY and Roxbury, CT. He opened his practice in 1991 after working as a senior designer in the office of Philip Johnson and John Burgee Architects. Stone received his Master’s of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1983. He has a national practice with projects from Maine to Florida and the Bahamas to California. He holds licenses in eight states and the District of Columbia. His firm’s principal focus is the design of single and multi-family residential housing, retail boutiques for luxury brands and cultural facilities.

Stone is a son of the late American architect, Edward Durell Stone, and has written the first biography and monograph of his father for the noted architectural book publisher, Rizzoli. The book is titled “Edward Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect”, and is being released in early October. He is a sought after expert on his father’s work, and has restored and renovated a number of his father’s significant projects. He is currently involved in the restoration and modernization of his father’s State University of New York, Albany campus. He has lectured extensively on his father’s life and career.

Edward Durell Stone: American Modernist
Edward Durell Stone was one of the first American architects to experiment with European modernism in the early 1930s in a series of prominent homes in the Northeast and in his design for the Museum of Modern Art. However, Stone later rejected the austerity of International Style modernism at the apex of its popularity, in favor of a warmer architecture rooted in the American architectural
tradition.

Stone initially embraced Frank Lloyd Wright’s aesthetic in the immediate postwar era, but later turned to classical precedent in his projects of the mid-1950s like the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India and the U.S. Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair.

Stone’s aesthetic choices engendered critical hostility among architectural cognoscenti, most notably in his later proto-post modernist work of the 1960s like the Huntington Hartford Museum of Modern Art in New York City, but at the same
time generated enormous popular success.

Monica Hudson

On Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7 pm, The Heritage Society of Pacific Grove Lecture Series is proud to present Monica Hudson at the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center on the P.G. Middle School Campus. A longtime Carmel resident, Monica Hudson will reflect on her years on the Monterey Peninsula as she talks about her 2006 book “Carmel-by-the-Sea,” part of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” local history series.

Ms. Hudson moved to the ranch at Pt. Lobos from her native Switzerland in 1972 as the bride of John Hudson, a member of one of the area’s pioneering families. She has enjoyed a long career with the California State Park system and is a sought-after guide in interpreting the cultural and natural history, architecture and art of the Monterey Peninsula. She gives regular tours for the Monterey Regional Parks District and creates custom tours through her historic walking tour company, California Legacy Tours. Come listen to this natural storyteller as she delves into Carmel’s past.

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Stephen Palumbi

On Friday, October 28 at 7 pm, The Heritage Society of Pacific Grove Lecture Series is proud to present Dr. Stephen Palumbi at the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center on the P.G. Middle School Campus. Dr. Palumbi will talk about “The Death and Life of Monterey Bay,” a talk based on the research for his book of the same name, which demonstrates the difference that ordinary citizens can make in creating diverse, sustainable ecosystems and economies.

Dr. Palumbi is the Director of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.  His current conservation work centers on the genetics of marine reserves designed for conservation and fisheries enhancement, with projects in the Philippines, Bahamas and the western coast of the United States.

In addition to writing “The Death and Life of Monterey Bay,” Dr. Palumbi wrote “The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change” and appeared in the TV series, “The Future is Wild,” a computer-animated exploration of the possible courses of evolution over the next few hundred million years.

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Dr. Susan Shillinglaw

On Friday, August 26 at 7 pm., The Heritage Society of Pacific Grove Lecture Series is proud to present Dr. Susan Shillinglaw at the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center on the P.G. Middle School Campus. A renowned Steinbeck Scholar, Dr. Shillinglaw will talk about the work and lives of John and Carol Steinbeck during their time in Pacific Grove.

Dr. Susan Shillinglaw is a professor of English at San Jose State University and Scholar-in-Residence at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. Previously, she was director of the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University and edited the award-winning journal Steinbeck Studies (previously The Steinbeck Newsletter). She has published widely on Steinbeck, most recently A Journey into Steinbeck’s California (2006), a travel guide and biography examining the impact of place on Steinbeck’s vision.

Currently she is working on a short biography of Steinbeck as well as a biography of his first wife, Carol Steinbeck. For the Steinbeck Centennial in 2002 she co-edited several collections: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (Viking); Beyond Boundaries: Rereading Steinbeck (Univ. of Alabama Press); John Steinbeck: Centennial Reflections by American Writers (Center for Steinbeck Studies).

She has also published numerous articles, introductions and has co-edited other volumes on Steinbeck. Professor Shillinglaw holds degrees from Cornell College in Iowa, and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has taught at Wake Forest University, Canisius College, The Buffalo Seminary, Santa Clara University, and since 1984, at San Jose State University.

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