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The City of Pacific Grove Celebrates its Origins!

Pacific Grove was founded by the Methodist Church as a summer retreat and found its identity when it became a member of the Chautauqua (adult education movement.)  Chautauqua was organized in 1874 in New York State.  The educational summer camp format proved to be a popular choice for families.  Chautauqua facilities were built throughout the country.  William Jennings Bryan was one of the more famous speakers.  Music, theater, animal acts and trapeze acrobats participated in the Chautauqua Circuit.  The coming of TV, radio, traveling theatre and circuses and World War II...

The Monterey Peninsula

The Monterey Peninsula is a truly amazing place to  visit and live.  Operating the Martine Inn for 28 years has been a challenging wonderful experience.  We are located on the water front of the deepest bay in the United States.  Its depth exceeds the depth of the Grand Canyon.  It has wonderful sandy beaches like the Monterey Beach that you can literally walk for miles on, and it has small intimate beaches tucked between cliffs, like Lovers Point Beach.  It has  rocky coastline  areas like the area immediately in front of the Martine Inn that is developed as a city, and it has...

Explore the Coast

The Martine Inn is excited to present our new blog and website! Please stay tuned as we will be updating our blog to share the latest and greatest surrounding the Martine Inn, local events and attractions. Yesterday, a great white shark moved into the Monterey Bay Aquarium right down the street from the Martine Inn.  The young shark, a four-foot, seven-inch male weighing 4 pounds, was collected near Marina del Rey, CA.  Since then, the shark has been in an ocean holding pen.  He plans on staying at the aquarium for several months.  When he gets too big he will be released back...