Monterey: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

Monterey's local daily newspaper is The Monterey County Herald. Monterey County Weekly covers news, art and entertainment. Journals published in the city include Mortuary Management and Your World of Birds. Also published locally is Spudman Magazine, which is devoted to potato growing.

Television and Radio

Monterey is home to one commercial television station, one cable service provider, and three FM stations.

Media Information: The Monterey County Herald, 8 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Monterey CA 93940-5730; telephone (831)372-3311

Monterey Online

California Coastal Rural Development Corporation. Available www.calcoastal.org

City of Monterey home page. Available www.monterey.org

Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Available www.chomp.org

Monterey Conference Center. Available www.monterey.org/mcc

Monterey Convention Authority. Available www.monterey conventionauthority.com

Monterey Convention & Visitors Bureau. Available www.monterey.com

The Monterey County Herald. Available www.monterey herald.com

Monterey County Historical Society. Available users.dedot.com/mchs

Monterey Jazz Festival. Available www.montereyjazz festival.org

Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce. Available www.mpcc.com

Monterey Peninsula Unified School District. Available www.mpusd.k12.ca.us

Monterey Public Library. Available www.monterey.org/library

Selected Bibliography

Benson, Jackson J., True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography (New York: Penguin Books, 1990)

Fink, Augusta, Monterey: The Presence of the Past (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1972)

Fisher, Anne B., No More a Stranger (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1946)

Ford, Tirey Lafayette, Dawn and the Dons: The Romance of Monterey, with Vignettes and Sketches by Jo Mora (San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1926)

Hobbs, Fredric, The Spirit of the Monterey Coast (Palo Alto, CA: Tioga Pub., 1995)

Jeffers, Robinson, Selected Poems (New York: Vintage, 1965)

Reinstedt, Randall A., Ghosts, Bandits, and Legends of Old Monterey (Carmel, CA: Ghost Town Publications, 1974)

Steinbeck, John, Cannery Row (New York: Viking, 1945)

Steinbeck, John, Tortilla Flat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1935)