This tour has called to me for years and we weren’t able to get in. sitting with my father the last year of his life.

I felt that way a very few times in my life. so in awe with the place and its people and their tales. Tor house felled me in ways I couldn’t have imagined. By expanding their docent staff, bringing in artists and hosting annual events, the nonprofit hopes to serve the community through art.

It now wants to expand beyond the standard tour to offer more exploration and education, drawing connections between Jeffers’ poetry and social justice and ecology. The nonprofit already offers access to Jeffers’ legacy by offering docent-led tours of the property. The Tor House Foundation exists to preserve the Tor House, Hawk Tower and their collections and promote the literary legacy of Robinson Jeffers, a 20th-century poet who made his home and tower from stone on Carmel Point starting in 1919. To maintain and preserve Tor House, Hawk Tower and their collections to promote the literary and philosophical legacy of Robinson Jeffers and to serve as a cultural resource for the community.

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