WALKING TOURS AND FIELD TRIPS W Register at http://bit.ly/1bYxC5p All tours start at the Portola Lobby in the Monterey Conference Center unless otherwise noted. Transportation is included for all field trips except walking tours. Please contact NCPH if you require special assistance. Lunch is not provided on field trips unless noted. T1. Adaptive Reuse Around Monterey Bay the environment impacted the lighthouse For thousands of years people have made Wednesday, March 19, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm keepers and their families; and gain an their living fishing the Monterey Bay, Ticket: $50 understanding and appreciation of the beginning with the Rumsien Ohlone, the Guide: California State University Monterey changing technology of the lightstation. Native People of the Monterey area. From Bay and Monterey Bay Aquarium staff This restoration focused tour will be led abalone to rockfish, everything was fished A bus will take participants on a field trip by John O’Neil, Chair of the CCLK, and and utilized, and the Monterey Bay was a to explore two local examples of adaptive Carol O’Neil, Interpretive Chair for the multi-cultural stew, made up of whalers re-use of historic properties. Fort Ord, a state park’s docents. On the day we will from the Azores, squid fishermen from decommissioned U.S. Army infantry base, be visiting, restoration volunteers will be China, salmon fishermen and abalone divers is now the campus of California State working so we will get to see what they from Japan, and Sicilians fishing sardines in University Monterey Bay. Our second stop do and talk to them about their on-going the “dark of the moon.” This entertaining is the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which maintenance work. The tour will feature walking tour of the Monterey Wharf and occupiesCANCELLED portions of the former Hovden restoration highlights, challenges, and surrounding area will take you back in time Cannery, one of many fish canneries which successes for the Blacksmith-Carpenter to explore the history of the fisheries of once operated on the Monterey waterfront. Shop, Barn, Headkeeper’s House, Triplex Monterey Bay and what made it one of the (Limit 30 participants) and the Lighthouse. The majority of the biggest and best fishing ports in the world. time will be spent at Headkeeper’s House (Limit 25 participants) T2. Historic Cemeteries of Old Monterey to see the recently installed furnishings. Wednesday, March 19, 2:45 pm – 5:15 pm We will also visit the Triplex and discuss T5. What’s the Point? Homes and History of Ticket: $15 the challenges of restoring this three story Carmel Point Guide: Dennis Copeland, historian and City building. This tour requires walking and Thursday, March 20, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm Museums and Archives Manager climbing stairs. California State Parks Ticket: $65 Join in a visit to the “other Monterey” to supports equal access. Prior to arrival, if a Guide: Kent Seavey, local historian and Tor learn about the history of the cemetery, participant with disabilities needs assistance House staff its residents, and the significant roles they should contact Pat Clark Gray at (831) Join us for a guided tour of some unique many of them played in the history of 649-2855 in advance to make the proper architectural gems in Carmel. Tour includes Monterey and early California. Two adjacent accommodations. (Limit 20 participants) walk-thru tour of Tor House, home of cemeteries are located next to El Estero and poet Robinson Jeffers, and Hawk Tower. across fromSOLD Dennis the OUT Menace Park: San A neighborhood walking tour of Carmel Carlos Cemetery, the Catholic cemetery Point takes in exterior views of historic of Monterey, and El Encinal, the City of housesCANCELLED by notable architects including Monterey cemetery, which was formally Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Wyncoop, established in 1835. San Carlos cemetery Ernest Bixter, and others. Interesting includes some of the oldest residents, and intriguing architectural styles from including those transferred from the original several periods—1919 to 1950s— reflects Spanish colonial cemetery at the Royal the varied history of Carmel Point. Tour Presidio Chapel (San Carlos Cathedral). participants must be able to walk for 30- Among the 20th-century sites, participants 40 minutes. Half our group will tour Tor will also visit the graves of Ed Ricketts, House while the other continues on the the model for “Doc” in several Steinbeck architectural walking tour, then reverse. works, and Flora Woods, the model for the Appropriate walking shoes recommended. bordello operator in the novel Cannery Row. Unfortunately, Tor House is not ADA FIELD TRIPS Good walking shoes are recommended. accessible. (Limit 24 participants) (Limit 25 participants) T3. Point Sur Lighthouse and Point Sur State Historic Park Thursday, March 20, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Ticket: $65, includes lunch Guides: Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers Point Sur State Historic Park is operated by California State Parks and is supported Courtesy of Carol O’Neil. by the volunteer Central Coast Lighthouse T4. Monterey’s Waterfront Keepers (CCLK). Visitors will learn Thursday, March 20, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm about interpretive goals of the park; gain Ticket: $15 an appreciation for the importance of Guide: Tim Thomas, 4th generation native lighthouses; understand how isolation and of the MontereySOLD area. OUT Courtesy of Tor House Foundation Archival Collection. 14 WALKINGWALKING TOURS TOURS AND FIELDAND TRIPS FIELD TRIPS T6. Royal Presidio Chapel Historic Landmark #1 – to California’s First in Monterey State Historic Park. He will Friday, March 21, 9:00 am -10:00 am Brick House and along one of the nation’s share unique RLS artifacts and archives that Ticket: $10 last remaining whalebone sidewalks. Learn are normally kept in storage. In addition, Guide: Chapel Docents about the people who were instrumental in participants will be allowed time to view This tour will depart from Lobby of Hotel settling early California in the Spanish and at the Stevenson Collection on exhibition Abrego (a shuttle runs from the Monterey Mexican periods. The tour visits Colton while Kris provides information regarding Conference Center to Hotel Abrego) Hall, the site of California’s Constitutional artifacts. Woven into the tour will be A short walk from Hotel Abrego brings Convention which paved the way to techniques on how California State Parks us to the oldest building on the Monterey statehood, then swings by the Old Jail with preserves and interprets the Stevenson Peninsula, the Royal Presidio Chapel, built tales about some of its more notorious House. California State Parks supports in 1794, and the only remaining original visitors. Participants can stop for lunch equal access. Participants with disabilities Spanish presidio chapel in California. along Alvarado Street – one of Monterey’s who need assistance should contact Pat During recent conservation efforts, original earliest thoroughfares – on their way Clark-Gray at (831) 649-2855 in advance of decor was discovered inside the church and back to the Conference Center. (Limit 25 the tour. (Limit 14 participants) an archaeological excavation uncovered participants) remains of the 1770 Spanish Presidio and T11 and T12. Pacific Biological Lab on an earlier (1772) chapel on the site. Many T9. Cannery Row Cannery Row archaeological artifacts are on display in the Friday, March 21, 12:45 pm – 3:30 pm Saturday, March 22, Two tours: 8:45 am – Heritage Center Museum next door. (Limit Ticket: $20 10:15 am and 10:15 am – 11:45 am 20 participants) Guide: Tim Thomas, 4th generation native of Ticket: $15 the Monterey area. Guide: Docents T7. The Grapes of Wrath Tour and National On this 2½ hour walking tour of Cannery Join a special tour of the home and Steinbeck Center, Salinas Row, guide Tim Thomas will take you laboratory of Edward F. Ricketts, friend and Friday, March 21, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm back in time to explore the history and collaborator of author John Steinbeck. Built Ticket: $70, includes wine tasting the people of the fisheries of Monterey in 1937, the Pacific Biological Laboratories, Guide: Steinbeck Center Staff Bay. The story of this famous street began which is listed on the National Register of Our bus will travel through the Salinas long before John Steinbeck’s depiction of Historic Places, was owned and operated by Valley, one of the world’s most fertile the area during its industrial heyday, when Ed Ricketts, a pioneering marine biologist agricultural areas, en route to Salinas and canneries lined Ocean View Avenue. From and ecologist and the model for several the National Steinbeck Center, an award- Native American, Asian, and European “Doc” characters in Steinbeck’s works. winning museum dedicated to the life of settlement, through the boom and bust The Lab was the locus where much of the author John Steinbeck and the people and of the whaling and sardine industries, to literary, social and scientific vision of both places of Monterey County that inspired economic despair and decay, followed by authors germinated and grew, as well as his work. In the Steinbeck Center’s restoration and re-development, the tale of conversations with their friends, many of interactive exhibition halls, you will learn Cannery Row continues to captivate. (Limit whom were also artists and writers. The about important cultural movements, 25 participants) Lab achieved its own literary prominence including Cesar Chavez and the United as a model for Doc’s Western Biological Farm Workers, and explore the many Lab in Steinbeck’s novel Cannery Row. cultures that have come to the valley over After Ricketts’ death, the Lab became the the past 200 years to cultivate its soil. After gathering place for a social club, named lunch on your own at one of Salinas’ many Pacific Biological Lab in honor of Ricketts, downtown restaurants, our return trip will and continued to be a gathering place include a stop at one of Monterey County’s for artists and writers, and became the fine wineries for a special winetasting birthplace of the famed Monterey Jazz experience.