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You Can Go Home Again: A Hometown Museum for John Steinbeck |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Lila L. Anastas |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,611 Words, 15,807 Characters |
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The center is open Monday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors (over 62) and students with ID, $4 for children 11--17, free to children 10 and under, and free to foundation members. For further information about the center, call (831) 796-3833 or visit www.steinbeck.org. Open-seating gourmet lunches are served Monday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. To obtain tour information or make reservations, call (831) 424-2735. Lila L. Anastas is a writer and photographer based in Roseville, California.
``The only good writer is a dead writer."
So wrote John Steinbeck in his 1961 book Travels With Charley. It's not one of the author's more memorable lines, but it's worth remembering. Thirty years after his death, the re...
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...ot everyone has the good fortune to be born in Salinas."
I've read enough of Steinbeck to know that he did appreciate his roots and did want to be accepted by the valley that had nourished him. So now that the Steinbeck-Salinas feud is over, the renegade writer ®RHAnastas, Lila ¯will get the respect he wanted and the townsfolk can take legitimate pride in the success of their favorite son.
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