In 1926 Ella Young lectured at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. She was hosted for a fortnight by the famous artist John O’Shea and socialized with the poet Robinson Jeffers and with the “radical Socialists” Sinclair Lewis, Ella Winter, and Lincoln Steffens. Two years later in The Carmelite she published her somber poem memorializing the suicide of local artist Ira Remsen. In 1934 Young penned an enigmatic review of O’Shea’s exhibition of charcoals at San Francisco’s prestigious Palace of the Legion of Honor (museum). O’Shea’s celebrated portrait of Young was exhibited in 1940 and 1945 at the Carmel Art Association. Young believed that Point Lobos near Carmel was the psychic center of the Pacific Coast and "when the force of Lobos is released, a great thing will happen in America-- but Lobos is not ready to make friends yet."