Upcoming Club events
Annual Unbirthday Event – First Held in 1994
Register and Info at https://montereypl.libcal.com/event/15552919?f=h
INSIDE SIMONEAU’S RESTAURANT – A BOHEMIAN RENDEZVOUS
By John Sanders
A Presentation to Celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson’s Unbirthday Party
Sponsored by the Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Monterey
Monterey Public Library, Community Room, November 15, 2025 2 p.m.
Monterey’s recorded history began during the era of Spanish galleons and treasure fleets, when great wooden ships that had set sail in search of riches and new trade routes in the mysterious world far beyond Europe’s shores discovered the picturesque grandeur of Monterey.
Monterey’s sovereignty had passed from Spain to Mexico and thence to the United States when, in 1879, a young Louis Stevenson journeyed 6,000 miles from Scotland in search of a woman to find — in Monterey — a town with “buildings so old for a country so new.”
In Monterey, Stevenson also found a helping hand in a Bohemian restaurant run by Jules Simoneau — French philosopher, art patron, antique collector and conchologist — who became Stevenson’s lifelong friend.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Monterey 