Photographs by David Laws

Bas relief by Jo Mora of a missionary who accompanied the Spanish colonizers at the entrance to Monterey Courthouse

Plaza Hall, San Juan Bautista, stand-in for the King City Hotel in the 1981 TV miniseries “East of Eden”

Bas relief by Jo Mora of a missionary who accompanied the Spanish colonizers at the entrance to Monterey Courthouse

Plaza Hall, San Juan Bautista, stand-in for the King City Hotel in the 1981 TV miniseries “East of Eden”
David Laws photographs and writes about gardens, Silicon Valley, and Steinbeck Country from his home on California's Monterey Peninsula.
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