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Nepenthe is a restaurant in Big Sur, California, built by Bill and Madelaine "Lolly" Fassett and first opened in 1949. It was built around a cabin first constructed ...
Approximate boundaries of the Big Sur region. Big Sur is not an incorporated town but a region without formal boundaries in California's Central Coast region. [17] The region is often confused with the small community of buildings and services 26 miles (42 km) south of Carmel in the Big Sur River valley, sometimes referred to by locals as Big Sur Village, but officially known as Big Sur. [17 ...
Nepenthe / n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ i / (Ancient Greek: νηπενθές, nēpenthés) is a possibly fictional medicine for sorrow – a "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology, depicted as originating in Egypt.
McWay Falls is an 80-foot-tall (24 m) waterfall on the coast of Big Sur in central California that flows year-round from McWay Creek in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, about 37 miles (60 km) south of Carmel, into the Pacific Ocean. During high tide, it is a tidefall, a waterfall that empties directly into the ocean.
The second of five children, Fassett was born on December 7, 1937, in San Francisco, California, [5] to parents William and Madeleine, who built the successful Nepenthe in Big Sur, California. [6] He is the great-grandson of the wealthy businessman, lawyer and United States Congressman Jacob Sloat Fassett , and it was his great-great ...
Nepenthe is a fictional medicine for sorrow. Nepenthe may also refer to: USS Nepenthe (SP-112), a luxury yacht belonging to James Deering; Nepenthe Productions, the production company of Martin Rosen; Nepenthe (restaurant), a restaurant in Big Sur, California; Nepenthe, a hand-drawn role-playing video game
Jade Cove is located in the southern area of Big Sur on the California central coast. [1] It contains the only concentrated underwater deposit of quality nephrite jade in the world. [ 2 ] Individuals are permitted to collect as much jade as they can personally carry using hand tools up to 90 feet (27 m) deep offshore.
Global distribution of Nepenthes. This list of Nepenthes species is a comprehensive listing of all known species of the carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes arranged according to their distribution.