*last Saturday The Herald published fa story by David Holley describing *e tours that were scheduled that af- #ternoon cotnmemorating Robert - touts Stev*ThonES walk in PacificA :Grove. k.'Shortly after the paper appeared, - Elmer, Brua called:St,·M,ry'*'--- 1 The-Sea3-clturch,''where 6.1.,=11, w6re to originate.under aus#cAN,1 i the Pacific Grove H,ritage Society: 0 r =r i r t T =9 F. .L Lit 9 i fir'*0"Blo""FAUNZY Mmithe socie4* 199)91.*:right away, he*said. 4 '*Up" was Forest Hill Manor, where Mr. Brua, an alert, *year·old man;·lives.- K. , 1 Respondlnit#h#request was Mrs. Edna Seffoii,: herself a spry 86, who has lived in Pacific Grove for 73 years. When Mrs. ; Sefton arrived, Mr. Brua pulled out of a drawer and pre- sented to her a fdded stereoscopic photo of the house at 142 Pacific h,»w-2-- where Stevenson 100 years ago had visited a fellow Scotsman, the Rev. William Curry McDougall. It turned out that Mr. Brua's late wife, Elsie, had been McDougall's granddaughter. Handwritten on the backof thephoto ,was this family no· tation: "Little cottage in Pacific Grove built for your grandfather in 1874." The "cottage" was the same one in which Mrs. Sefton herself had been brought up, many years after' the re, verend's demise. "My mother came there in 1906 as a widow with five children," said Mrs. Sefton, who now lives with her her sister, Miss'Philoma Goldsworthy, on Bayview Ave.,.just over the back fence from their childhood home. "The meadows stretched from our house clear to the seashore. Mother could look out the back door and wave a tea towel as a signal toustocome home for lunch. "And there were so many wild flow- ers - cream-cups, baby blue eyes, tidy tips and of course the poppies..." Happenings such as Mr. Brua's phone call help the Pacific Grove Heritage Society put together, bit by bit, the pieces that will fit into a mo- saic portraying their city's history. LEADING off a tour group last Saturday were Dr. David Mills (/eft), flanked by Jennifer Jordan and her mother, Sandra Jordan. - . .. .44%%.ti. I & .9 -rL '40 9%% f"M ROBERT Louis Stevenson 0 4 + i f 93% passed Central and 15th (left) 4 1. 1 .'.% 9 'll . %' :I L · ·· I 1.13 100 years ago. The houses - 344% date from the 1880s. i.11 /. ·X I X . 1.. U.16 , OCR Text: *last Saturday The Herald published fa story by David Holley describing *e tours that were scheduled that af- #ternoon cotnmemorating Robert - touts Stev*ThonES walk in PacificA :Grove. k.'Shortly after the paper appeared, - Elmer, Brua called:St,·M,ry'*'--- 1 The-Sea3-clturch,''where 6.1.,=11, w6re to originate.under aus#cAN,1 i the Pacific Grove H,ritage Society: 0 r =r i r t T =9 F. .L Lit 9 i fir'*0"Blo""FAUNZY Mmithe socie4* 199)91.*:right away, he*said. 4 '*Up" was Forest Hill Manor, where Mr. Brua, an alert, *year·old man;·lives.- K. , 1 Respondlnit#h#request was Mrs. Edna Seffoii,: herself a spry 86, who has lived in Pacific Grove for 73 years. When Mrs. ; Sefton arrived, Mr. Brua pulled out of a drawer and pre- sented to her a fdded stereoscopic photo of the house at 142 Pacific h,»w-2-- where Stevenson 100 years ago had visited a fellow Scotsman, the Rev. William Curry McDougall. It turned out that Mr. Brua's late wife, Elsie, had been McDougall's granddaughter. Handwritten on the backof thephoto ,was this family no· tation: "Little cottage in Pacific Grove built for your grandfather in 1874." The "cottage" was the same one in which Mrs. Sefton herself had been brought up, many years after' the re, verend's demise. "My mother came there in 1906 as a widow with five children," said Mrs. Sefton, who now lives with her her sister, Miss'Philoma Goldsworthy, on Bayview Ave.,.just over the back fence from their childhood home. "The meadows stretched from our house clear to the seashore. Mother could look out the back door and wave a tea towel as a signal toustocome home for lunch. "And there were so many wild flow- ers - cream-cups, baby blue eyes, tidy tips and of course the poppies..." Happenings such as Mr. Brua's phone call help the Pacific Grove Heritage Society put together, bit by bit, the pieces that will fit into a mo- saic portraying their city's history. LEADING off a tour group last Saturday were Dr. David Mills (/eft), flanked by Jennifer Jordan and her mother, Sandra Jordan. - . .. .44%%.ti. I & .9 -rL '40 9%% f"M ROBERT Louis Stevenson 0 4 i f 93% passed Central and 15th (left) 4 1. 1 .'.% 9 'll . %' :I L · ·· I 1.13 100 years ago. The houses - 344% date from the 1880s. i.11 /. ·X I X . 1.. U.16 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Historic Properties of Pacific Grove,Pacific,142 Pacific,142 PACIFIC AVE_016.pdf,142 PACIFIC AVE_016.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: 142 PACIFIC AVE_016.PDF, 142 PACIFIC AVE_016.pdf 1 Page 1