32 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY november 23-29, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com Emil White was a close friend and confidant to Henry Miller in Big Sur—his cabin home is now the Henry Miller Memorial Library. White, who died in 1989, shared a birthday with Fuess. Kalisa Moore, the “Queen of Cannery Row,” was among the last living connections to John Steinbeck. Her La Ida Café was a refuge for bohemians, bellydancers, artists and poets. She died in 2009. Nathaniel Owings was a famous American architect and founder of the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Among many other projects, in the late 1960s and early ‘70s he led a team to redesign Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Locally, Owings and his wife Margaret (a founder and the first president of the environmental defense group Friends of the Sea Otter) designed and resided at Wild Bird, an A-frame house situated on the cliffs of Big Sur. Stancil Johnson was a psychiatrist, a frisbee enthusiast and “historian of all things flying disc.” In 1975 he wrote the book Frisbee: Practitioner’s Manual and Definitive Treatise. He’s a member of the Frisbee Hall of Fame and the Disc Golf Hall of Fame. He died in 2021; he’s pictured here with his entire frisbee collection.
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