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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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Aug.03.2012
"I got the cliched shivers when I saw my paintings and my father's work, leaning against the wall where John Steinbeck's huge black and white image looked down upon them."--Belle Yang
I'm humming "Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night . . . "-- okay not really. My big opening at the...
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May.03.2011
There's always a surreal quality to death. When it is someone like bin Laden, it heightens. To the people of California's Monterey County it heightens even more, because Leon Panetta, CIA director and the guiding hand in taking down Bin Laden, is such an important part of this community.
Panetta...
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Sep.10.2009
It has always seemed a somewhat original concept to me – the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California. A museum with ongoing, changing exhibits dedicated to honoring a great writer.
I felt privilegd a decade ago to be a co-curator with Patricia Leach of the Center's first art exhibition,...
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Oct.04.2008
There was the time, an unsubstantiated story goes, that Ed Rickets drove young novelist John Steinbeck over the hill from the Monterey Peninsula, California community of Pacific Grove, to Carmel, just a few miles away, to meet Poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una.
This was, oh, maybe the mid...
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Feb.20.2008
On May 12, 1942, John Steinbeck applied for a New York State license to carry a concealed weapon. The permit, in the county of Rockland and the city of Palisades, was for two Colt Automatic revolvers. Character witnesses on the application included the actor Burgess Meredith, the artist Henry...
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