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Dog Days Dampen Festival
One spring morning at Alice’s Dog Park in Pasadena, a few of us dog owners were talking about traveling with your dog when a gentleman in his 80s, named Larry, mentioned Travels with Charley in Search...
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Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California Celebrates Women Workers of Cannery Row
The history, lives, and contribution of female canning workers during Cannery Row’s 20th century sardine boom will be celebrated in a special exhibit at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas,...
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Making a Virtue of Necessity, Virtual John Steinbeck Festival Moves Online
Making a virtue of necessity, officials at the National Steinbeck Center have announced that the August 1-2, 2020 Steinbeck Festival will move online, motivated by COVID-19 and the need to think...
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Zoom into Monterey Library’s “Cannery Row Days” Party
William Souder, John Steinbeck Biographer The author of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (William Souder, above) joins an all-star speaker lineup for the Monterey Library’s 75th anniversary...
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William Souder, University of Oklahoma Experts Launch Steinbeck Center Series
Michele Speich, executive director of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California, has announced a pair of public program initiatives with upcoming target dates. “We are kicking off our fall...
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Salinas Festival Celebrates Close Mexican Connection
John Steinbeck was no accidental tourist when it came to the Republic of Mexico. Although he later expressed a preference for the mother culture of Spain, he traveled to Mexico early and often for...
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Zoom into John Steinbeck’s 120th Birthday This Tuesday
Sunday, February 27, 2022, marks the 120th anniversary of John Steinbeck’s birth in Salinas, California. To celebrate this occasion, the Monterey Public Library and the Martha Heasley Cox Centerfor...
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Propose a Paper or Panel for March 22-24, 2023 Steinbeck Conference at San...
San Jose State University invites proposals for papers and panels on reading, teaching, and translating John Steinbeck for the Steinbeck conference to be held March 22-24, 2023 at San Jose State. Said...
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Jacqueline Woodson to Receive John Steinbeck Award on October 18, 2022
Together with the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University will present the 2022 John Steinbeck “In the Souls of the People” Award to...
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Celebrate! Western Flyer Returns to Monterey Bay
Western Flyer—the 77-foot fishing boat John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts took on their famous 1940 trip to the Sea of Cortez—recently returned to Monterey Bay after nearly a decade of restoration in Port...
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