30 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY november 23-29, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com Francis Heisler was a civil rights lawyer who defended conscientious objectors to World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Closer to home, in 1971 he defended Ann Kessinger Parr in Parr v. People, in which a Carmel ordinance barring people from sitting on city sidewalks and parks went to the State Supreme Court. He was also an early professor at the Monterey College of Law. Wynn Bullock was a photographer born in Chicago and raised in southern California. In 1948 Bullock met fellow photographer Edward Weston, a meeting that shifted his focus to the moody, dramatic nature photography he pursued locally. Bullock died in 1975 in Monterey. Elmarie Dyke was known as “Mrs. Pacific Grove.” Today, an open space adjacent to Chautauqua Hall is named for her. She helped bring a symphony to Monterey, helped relaunch the (nowended) Feast of Lanterns in 1958 and helped to keep Pacific Grove a dry town until 1969. Francois Martin was a puppeteer and the cofounder, with Ralph Geddis, of the Tantamount Theater in Carmel Valley. In addition to puppet shows, Martin would host movie nights at the theater, Fuess says, complete with intermission breaks where everyone would drink tea out of porcelain cups. Fuess’ Carmel Pine Cone profile of Martin appeared on the cover of the paper on Oct. 23, 1975.
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