My ten year Pacific Grove High School Class Reunion was held here in October 2011. It was great to see all my fellow seniors who attended the joyous event and party.
Arnie B.
Évaluation du lieu : 1 Monterey, CA
The Art & Wine Walk was well advertised and poorly managed. There were no signs directing the visitors and many of the surrounding businesses were unaware of the Walk’s existence. There is a lot of wine tasting and very little art. Hay folks how about some signage and a shuttle bus. With that and some decent art we will come back and stop bad mouthing you.
Clyde R.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Carmel by the Sea, CA
Carmel Valley Village is a 20-minute drive from Carmel. The drive is scenic and peaceful with horse properties, wineries, farmland, mountains, and rolling green pastureland to keep you company along the way. It’s a peaceful drive… When you visit Carmel Valley Village, keep in mind that Langston Hughes, a Black-American poet from Harlem, one of our greatest poets, lived here in the 1930’s. Some of his poems are romantic and simple, such as HARLEMNIGHTSONG: Come, Let us roam the night together Singing. I love you. Across The Harlem roof-tops Moon is shining. Night sky is blue. Stars are great drops Of golden dew. Down the street A band is playing. I love you. Come, Let us roam the night together Singing. Some of his poems express a longing for a day when America embraces all people as one, as this poem does which he wrote in Carmel Valley: DAYBREAKINALABAMA: When I get to be a composer I’m gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I’m gonna put white hands And black hands and brown hands and yellow hands And red clay earth hands in it Touching everyone with kind fingers And touching each other natural as dew In that dawn of music when I Get to be a composer And write about daybreak In Alabama. Before there was hip-hop, there was bebop, and before bebop Langston Hughes set the jazz landscape afire with his poetry and rhyme: LADY’S BOOGIE: See that lady Dressed so fine? She ain’t got boogie-woogie On her mind — But if she was to listen I bet she’d hear, Way up in the treble The tingle of a tear. Be-Bach! Langston Hughes infused his poetry with romance, the staccato fire and rhythm of jazz, and a yearning and conviction that one day all Americans will have the opportunity to find their aspirations and full expression in the American dream. I wish that Langston Hughes could be here now to see what we have become. Black is cool. Every color is cool. There is daybreak over Alabama. America is becoming the promise of America.
