The Rosamond Gallery In Carmel

Christine Rosamond Benton had two galleries in Carmel, on at Four Corners, and the last one in the city proper. The greatest travesty is art and literature, was allowing an outsider to take control of the Rosamond Gallery and destroy our incredible family history and creative legacy. The ghost writer that was hired to write Christine’s biography neglected Royal Rosamond and his contribution to the development of the West Coast as a haven from Artists, Writers, and Poets. Tom Snyder mistakes my flesh and blood for Edwin Milton Royle who wrote Squaw Man.

Royal’s poems and short stories appeared in the same periodicals with Jack London, George Serling, Ambrose Bierce, and Robert Louis Stevenson. These men turned Carmel into the famous enclave of Bohemians who migrated from Lake Temescal in Oakland, to Carmel-by-the-Sea. Add to this the Salon Jessie Benton had in her home in Black Point, where Mark Twain…