Stories
Real stories about Carmel-by-the-Sea, from the people who published them
- By Any Name, Bach Fest Keeps Currency Of J.S. In Blend Of Other Voices ↗A critic reviews four concerts of the 2026 festival.
- Barbara Rose Shuler, Intermezzo: Bach Festival off to a fast start ↗The Herald’s classical columnist on the 89th season’s opening days.
- The Carmel Bach Festival’s 89th season explores the nature of sound ↗A preview of the 2026 season’s theme.
Classic reads
- ISM alums meet Grete Pedersen at the Carmel Bach Festival ↗Yale choral alumni meet the festival’s artistic director.
- An enchanting village on California’s coast where art, nature, food, & architecture cast magical spell ↗A visitor’s tour of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
- Where do you live? That’s a complicated question for a California town with no street addresses ↗Carmel’s long fight over house numbers, with residents, a councilmember and the mayor weighing in.
- Robinson and Una Jeffers’ Tor House is headed toward National Historic Landmark status ↗The foundation’s landmark application wins unanimous committee support.
- How Clint Eastwood became mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea ↗Eastwood’s two years as mayor from 1986 to 1988.
- The True Story of Carmel’s Ice Cream Cone Controversy ↗What the 1980s ice cream fuss was really about, from city archives.
- Carmel Mission ↗The mission’s history from Serra’s founding through secularization to restoration as a National Historic Landmark.
- ‘Carmel Shell’ mural unveiled to honor village’s history as an artists’ colony ↗A downtown mural designed by Marie-Clare Treseder Gorham.
- Wanderings: Carmel-by-the-Sea, California ↗A walk through the one-square-mile village’s galleries, courtyards and storybook cottages in its centennial year.
- Our Inevitable Place: The Artistry of Carmel-by-the-Sea ↗A look at the town’s artistic reputation from the colony’s early days to today’s galleries.
- When Clint Eastwood Was Elected Mayor of Carmel, California ↗How a dispute over building plans led the actor to run, and what he did in office.
- Walking Through Tor House, Sharing Jeffers’ Poems ↗A poet leads a tour of the house and grounds Robinson Jeffers built above the Pacific.
- History of the Carmel Bach Festival ↗The festival’s own account of Dene Denny, Hazel Watrous and its artistic directors since 1935.
- Carmel-by-the-Sea Fairytale Cottages Walking Tour ↗The history of Hansel, Gretel, the Tuck Box and the other storybook buildings, with a walking map.
- Carmel History ↗The chamber’s short history of the village.
- San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo ↗The mission’s history and its place in the California mission chain.
- The Carmel Monterey Peninsula Art Colony: A History ↗An overview of the Carmel and Monterey Peninsula art colony.