The Big Sur Historical Society had our annual Christmas potluck “meeting” on December 5th, minus the potluck! We attempted our first-ever virtual program and we think for our first venture it worked out pretty well! Thank you so much to our Board member, David Woods, for all his work making it happen! We also conducted our usual business of approving our Board slate for next year and next year’s budget.

Already during the recent fires there have been losses of priceless irreplaceable historical items like pictures and diaries with some of these dating back to the 1800s. Some of us here in Big Sur know all too well how devastating these losses can be.

The BSHS held their annual members only Christmas program potluck on December 7th at Rancho Grande. We are always grateful to be able to use the house for our event! There were almost fifty members there, all bringing for everyone’s delicious enjoyment a buffet of different dishes to have for dinner. Heather Foster’s chicken pot pie brought rave reviews from everyone who sampled it!

Our fall program this year was a Members only potluck held at our Museum at Molera. As it was pretty windy on the ridge I feared the worst knowing that Molera is almost always even windier. We were really lucky in that while it was definitely breezy it seemed to be blowing much higher up in the trees and where we sat at our picnic tables in front of the Museum it was actually quite pleasant.