A collection of articles from the Weekly's archives about and related to Pacific Grove's Feast of Lanterns, a festival that originated in 1905, the year before Pacific Grove's Chinese fishing village at Point Alones burned down.
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The burning of a Chinese fishing village on the shores of Pacific Grove in 1906 continues to reverberate through the town’s history to the pre…
An effort to remember and honor the Chinese immigrants who are a part of Pacific Grove’s history is gaining steam, with approximately $100,000…
There's a new mural in the county, this time in the “distinguished City of Marina,” as Catalyst Cannabis Marina, a store on whose walls the mu…
Almost two years ago Pacific Grove officially said goodbye to the Feast of Lanterns, the town’s troubled faux Chinese pageant, beloved by some…
A historic moment in Pacific Grove’s history was written on Saturday, May 14 and it was witnessed by over 300 people who gathered to participa…
The Pacific Grove City Council voted 7-0 on Wednesday night to approve a resolution created by the city's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task…
Almost 116 years after the Chinese fishing village at Point Alones in Pacific Grove was nearly burned to the ground in a suspicious fire to th…
Two months after the board of the nonprofit Feast of Lanterns organization announced it was voluntarily ending the tradition following intens…
The light has finally been snuffed out of the Feast of Lanterns. The Feast's board of directors voted to permanently end the decades-long trad…
The message from over 30 speakers who called into a Pacific Grove City Council meeting on Feb. 16 was clear: It's time to end the Feast of Lan…
What makes a good apology? Pam Marino here, pondering that question after the Pacific Grove Feast of Lanterns Board released a statement on Su…
Change happens in broad strokes, and it also happens in the errata sheet of the city of Pacific Grove Recreation Board meetings. It’s in that …
Pam Marino here. Today was a work day for my colleagues and me at the Weekly, but it was a holiday for some workers to honor Indigenous People…
Former Feast of Lanterns queen and board president issues public apology for cultural appropriation.
Kaye Coleman was queen of the Feast of Lanterns’ Royal Court as a teenager growing up in Pacific Grove. As an adult she was president of the n…
Gerry Low-Sabado, the voice of her 19th-century Chinese ancestors of the Monterey Bay region and the woman who worked tirelessly to educate an…
Celia Jiménez here, thinking about how important history is, especially for minorities who many times are seen or perceived as outsiders on th…
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Events of the past year range from incendiary statements to deadly violence, and they have happened far away and here at home…
From 1880 to 1940, California’s economy progressed in all industries, which created a labor demand filled by immigrants, and a need for accomp…
Five years ago this coming July, two friends from Silicon Valley came to visit me in Pacific Grove for the day. Both are Asian American: one d…
It is a hallmark of the Pacific Grove Unified School District to educate its students about the rich history of the Monterey Bay. The John Ste…
Two pandemics are coming together in Pacific Grove in a confluence signaling a move toward inclusiveness…
Fairy tales are a version of the classic hero’s journey, a quest where adversity is overcome, a pretext for a voyage of self-discovery. Kaye C…
Pivotal moments don’t always take place in front of big crowds. Sometimes they bubble up out of small conversations. There were two such momen…
Dollars and Sense… A budget-conscious Squid is a happy Squid, and so it was that Squid took time over the weekend to square away the finances …
MONEY PIT… Squid’s not much of a superstitious type. Squid oozes under ladders, pays no mind to black cats and has no use for a rabbit’s foot.…
In 1906, Gerry Low-Sabado’s great-grandparents were burned out of their homes in the Chinese fishing village located where Hopkins Marine Stat…
ALL THE RAGE… After all the years, Squid has developed a high tolerance, even an affinity, for the absurd – recalling the time a coin toss dec…
Congressman Sam Farr said this day was “long overdue,” and overdue it was.
Gerry Low-Sabado is finally seeing the fruits of her activism. For years, she’s badgered the city of Pacific Grove to pay more respect to the …
T he fire changed everything.
The past is as fleeting as footprints in the sand. But keen history buffs can find local clues to the Chinese fishing village that thrived on …
On a sunny Thursday at Hopkins Marine Research Station, Stanford sophomore Claire Menke digs carefully in a four-foot hole. Within minutes her…
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