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Apr.02.2013
She's had a love affair with Cannery Row since the 1960s and actor and environmentalist Leonardo Di Caprio says of Eva Lothar's film ``Street of the Sardine,'' ``This poignant depiction of the delicate balance between man and nature still resonates today.''
The late marine biologist Ed Ricketts ``...
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Feb.27.2013
John was born Feb. 27, 1902, Salinas, California.
All blue collar and agricultural workers owe him a debt. Harvest Gypsies, In Dubious Battle, The Grapes of Wrath.
Call from New York and Eliane Steinbeck years ago. "Could you please pick up the telephone book, Mr. Hauk, and tell me how many times...
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Sep.29.2012
I just went into the internet to search Morgan Stock and got mainly Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley ``stocks.'' I thought, ``Wow, can't get much more contrast than Morgan Stock and Morgan Stanley stocks.''
Morgan Stock, after all, was an actor, director and compelling theater figure. They held a...
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Jun.25.2011
Talked over the phone to a friend from high school the other day, George Edens. George and I both wrestled at Kirkwood High in Missouri, outside St. Louis. George was pretty good, though no match for me.
Wrestlng's been on my mind lately. The other day I talked to the very fine poet, or poetess if...
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Nov.04.2010
The election is over but I'm going to keep the sign in my front yard for a few days anyway. I want people who voted ``no'' on literacy to think about it again when they drive by.
``P.G. Library . . . Vote Yes! Measure Q'' is how the sign reads. Q was a proposed parcel tax which would have supported...
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Jul.17.2010
The El Carmelo Cemetery in Pacific Grove, California slants toward the sea and lush red-gold sunsets. The air's fresh whether it's sunny or foggy, and while we seldom walk in El Carmelo at night, I imagine the residents must like it then, the cold ocean winds providing a sense of invigorating...
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Jun.11.2010
It was, I don't know, more than thirty years ago when the Calypso moored in Monterey Bay on the California coast. I was a reporter and was accompanid by a photographer. We had the tools of our trades, notebook, pen, camera, film. What we lacked was a boat to get out to the Calypso.
Was Jacques...
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Apr.17.2010
It was a time – from the turn of the 20th Century through the 1960s – on California's Monterey Peninsula when writers, poets, artists, actors and photographers, even marine biologists, hung out together, crossing paths frequently. Do creative people still mix that way in this country? Maybe. Maybe...
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Oct.16.2009
Odd how these things happen. Wednesday I came across a youtube video by Simon Morris, ``The Literary Tourist: John Steinbeck's California,'' '' on Steinbeck and Cannery Row in Monterey, California.
It includes a moving interview of Kalisa Moore who, as a restauranteur and indomitable free spirit,...
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Apr.23.2009
The cub reporter asked Steinbeck over the telephone if he could interview him. It was 1948, and Bob Sparks was writing for the Monterey Peninsula College (California) student newspaper, El Yanqui.
``I'd like that, son,'' said Steinbeck, who had recently come from New York to the family's Pacific...
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