SAVE THE DATE
Walk of Remembrance 2022
Program and Schedule

Saturday May 14, 2022, 1:00 - 4:30 pm
“Walk of Remembrance”
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History and Stanford Hopkins Marine Station. 

Honoring the life and legacy of Gerry Low-Sabado, a descendant of Quock Mui and Quock Tuck Lee of the Chinese fishing village at Point Alones, for her work to bring recognition of Chinese contributions to Pacific Grove and achieve “Change with Kindness." Performance by Monterey Bay Lion Dance Team.

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
165 Forest Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

The Walk begins at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (corner of Forest Avenue and Central Avenue) with a proclamation and proceeds one mile along the recreation trail led by a Monterey Bay Lion Dance Team. There will be an additional presentation on the Chinese village at the Stanford Hopkins Marine station. This is the location where the fishing village once stood, and it is marked by a commemorative boulder at the gate of the marine station.

“The Quock Family of the Point Alones Chinese Fishing Village”
Julia Cain and Donald G. Kohrs

Julie Cain is a historian and the Historic Preservation Planner for Heritage Services at Stanford University. She is particularly interested in 19th-century California history with an emphasis on the history of San Francisco, the role of Chinese immigrants within the state, the development of estate homes on the San Francisco peninsula and the history of Stanford University.

Donald Kohrs is the branch library specialist at the Harold A. Miller Library of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove. His current research areas include the history of Pacific Grove’s Chautauqua Program, Stanford University’s Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, the Hopkins Marine Station, Edward F. Ricketts, Jack Calvin, and the Steinbeck and Hamilton families.

Hopkins Marine Station
DeNault Family Research Laboratory
120 Ocean View Blvd
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

** We invite the residents and business owners of Pacific Grove to hang lanterns outside their homes and businesses to celebrate the authentic history of the Chinese American community that thrived on the Monterey Peninsula and in Pacific Grove. This also signals the beginning of healing and reconciliation happening in our beloved community.

Additional events!
Please consider joining us for all the events to deepen your understanding of our local history.

Saturday April 15, 2022 to Saturday May 14, 2022
“Remembering 1882“ The date of the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting Chinese immigration to the U.S. Exhibit from the Chinese Historical Museum in San Francisco to be on display at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
165 Forest Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

April 30, 2022 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
“Stop AAPI Hate: The Point Alones Chinese Fishing Village & Intergenerational Trauma” This talk is about the Point Alones fishing village which was in Pacific Grove and its destruction in tragic fire in 1906 after 53 years of existence.

Russell Jeung PhD, San Francisco State; Fishing Village Descendant and co-founder of the Stop Asian Hate movement will be making a presentation on Saturday April 30, 2022.

Chautauqua Hall
16th Street and Central Ave
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Friday May 13, 2022, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
“They Came Across the Sundown Sea: Honoring the Chinese pioneers and their inspiration and legacies on the shores of Monterey Bay”

Sandy Lydon is a writer, teacher, and historian who has published several books on local history. For a short time he was also a weather man on KCBA. He wrote the book Chinese Gold the best history of Chinese in California. He continues to teach classes on local history through Cabrillo College.

Chautauqua Hall
16th Street & Central Ave.
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Saturday May 14, 2022, 11:00 am till 12:00 pm
Abalone! By Bowen Lee

Abalone! is a story of the history of the many cultures for whom abalone have been an important source of food and commerce here in the Monterey Bay. This mollusk with the beautiful shell has been valued by Native, Chinese, Japanese, and European Americans for centuries. In bringing this treasured shellfish back from near extinction, scientists are looking to the past at the sustainable harvesting of Native peoples and Chinese fishers. Listen to the stories of this celebrated sea snail with the rainbow shell.

Bowen Lyam Lee lives in the Monterey Bay area. She is a fifth generation Chinese American of Gold Rush ancestry. Her great grandmother, Wong Choy Kiu, was born in 1877, at the Chinese fishing village at Pt. Alones, where Hopkins Marine Station is now situated. Bowen was a natural science illustrator and writer before becoming a public school teacher. She has been a teacher for 36 years, incorporating storytelling into all aspects of teaching, and is lately conducting workshops on storytelling to teach educational content in national and regional education conferences.

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
165 Forest Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950