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Steinbeck Center Explores the Land’s Influence on Man
Steinbeck Center: The National Steinbeck Center
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iterature buffs visiting the Monterey Peninsula will surely want to make time to take a tour of Salinas’ National Steinbeck Center. Everyone else should, too. The facility serves as both an archive and a tribute to all things associated with John Steinbeck, one of America’s finest authors and Salinas’ favorite native son. In telling his story, it touches a common human chord about the way people are shaped by the landscapes of their youth. That’s why a visit to this place is important, even if your exposure to the great man of letters is limited to a high school English class or the film renderings of his best works—East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men or Tortilla Flats. The Steinbeck Center’s multi-media experience is sure to entertain, educate and inspire thought about the way the natural world can shape so much of each individual’s life.
During the author’s childhood, the Salinas Valley was a noted agricultural region. It remains so today. At the Steinbeck Center a progression of galleries use artifacts, film clips, photographs and the author’s own words to draw comparisons between Steinbeck’s work and the life he lived growing up in the Salinas Valley. As a bonus the Valley of the World Agricultural exposition helps visitors understand the elements of growing and processing food. The center is located on Main Street in downtown Salinas just 15 miles from SkyWest service at the Monterey airport. n
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