Welcome to
The Cannery Row Foundation Web Site
and our passion for the
historical, literary, sociological
and ecological lessons of
"America's
Most Famous Street"
The purpose of the Cannery Row Foundation is to preserve the historical and literary
resources of Cannery Row, Monterey, California, and to research, interpret, educate,
disseminate, and celebrate the unique multicultural essence of Cannery Row’s historic,
literary, cultural and ecological legacies.
The Cannery Row
Foundation was incorporated February 17, 1983, as an
Internal Revenue Code Section
501 (c) (3) non-profit California corporation.
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CRF Western Flyer Newsletter
Updated 04/05/21
Website design, production, most content, and publication since 1997 has been a donation by The History Company
FROM THE ARCHIVE
The Great Cannery Row Reunion!
From "Coastings..." on May 11, 1983
From the Archives of the Cannery Row Foundation.
1984, Western Flyer in the Monterey County Herald:
The Cannery Row Foundation has a history with the Western Flyer.
From the Archives: 1987 BBC on Cannery Row!
"Of Life and Men" with Howard Stableford, BBC
Featuring Steve Webster (Monterey Bay Aquarium)
Susan Shillinglaw (Center for Steinbeck Studies, SJSU)
Michael Hemp (Cannery Row Foundation, Cannery Row historian)
Frank Wright (Cannery Row Foundation, friend of Ed Ricketts)
Katie Rodger (UC Davis, Ricketts Author)
CLICK HERE for 1987 on Cannery Row.
From the Archives...
(A periodic publication from the history
of Cannery Row and the Cannery Row Foundation
responsible for keeping it)
Archive Post 1:
1982 proposal cover for the soon-to-be incorporated
non-profit Cannery Row Foundation and its
1983 "GREAT CANNERY ROW REUNION"!
Thanks to those who attended the
ED RICKETTS' CANNERY ROW BIRTHDAY TOURS
OF PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES
May 19, 2018
MK Hemp photo
SATURDAY, MAY 19 will be
the Cannery Row Foundation's annual Ed Ricketts’
Birthday Tours of Pacific Biological
Laboratories at 800 Cannery Row --
so mark your calendar for a rare chance to join
other "Ed Heads" in "Doc's Lab" for two-hour tours
on Satruday, May 19th.
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Celebrating Ed Ricketts' Cannery Row Foundation
Birthday in the Lab!
02/24/18
JOHN STEINBECK BIRTHDAY TOURS OF
PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES
February 24, 2018
| STEINBECK’S
BIRTHDAY PART—AT THE LAB! Another rare chance to tour “Ed Ricketts’ Pacific Biological Laboratories" at 800 Cannery Row will be offered Saturday, Feb. 24. The annual Steinbeck Birthday tours are given by tour guides from the non-profit Cannery Row Foundation. Steinbeck was born Feb. 27, 1902. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! -- The Lab building is where Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck conceived and planned their 1940 "Voyage of Science and Leisure" to Baja California's Sea of Cortez on the famed Monterey purse-seiner, the "Western Flyer” and described in Steinbeck’s "The Log from the Sea of Cortez." Cannery Row Foundation speakers will describe the men’s teamwork. -- Limited reservations are now being accepted at tours@canneryrow.org for these public Lab tours, which are two hours each at 10 a.m., 12 noon, and 2 p.m. Only 15 visitors per hour are allowed inside the historic building. -- Guests are asked to list the tour time requested and the number of persons in the party. Reservations will be confirmed by return e-mail. Emails are preferred, or visitors also can call (831) 917-1937 for clarification or further information. -- A donation of $15 or more to the Cannery Row Foundation by cash or check at the door is requested. This helps cover the City fees and insurance for use of the facility. Since 1983, the Cannery Row Foundation has helped to support the research on, and exhibition of, Cannery Row's famous historic, literary, and ecological legacies. -- Guests are encouraged to bring cameras, dress in layers, and enjoy a rare opportunity to be inside the Lab for tours by historians, literary scholars, marine biologists, and Cannery Row Foundation docents ("Row Rat" volunteers). -- Refreshments will be available and visitors will have a chance to wander Pacific Biological Laboratories. Ricketts’ actual basement Lab also will be open, with some of his original equipment and specimens on display. |
Message from Michael Hemp
A migrated donation from TheHistoryCompany.com
I regret to inform you of the passing of two important friends with roots in Cannery Row.
IN MEMORIAM
Ed Ricketts, Jr.
(August 23, 1923 - January 3, 2018)
It is with great regret we inform you that Ed Ricketts, Jr. – son of Edward F. Ricketts –passed away
on January 3, 2018. His contributions to the historical, scientific and personal legacy of his father
have been essential to world-wide Ricketts and Steinbeck fans. More details and photos come soon
in a continuing Memorial to Ed Ricketts Jr. posted here—and on www.thehistorycompany.com.
–MK Hemp
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 MK Hemp photo |
| Michael Hemp with Ed Ricketts Jr. at
Ed's home on January 10, 2016. A contingent of colleagues (Hemp, Andy Case, and Don Kohrs) drove up from Monterey to see Ed Jr. and brought lunch from his favorite local Indian restaurant. And a bigger surprise: 2 old card-files. |
Don Kohrs, Hopkins Marine Station
librarian, inspects index card files of Ed Ricketts' world-wide contacts missing since the 1936 fire of Ricketts' lab on Cannery Row–obtained through the Cannery Row Foundation by historian Michael Hemp. Who knew exactly were to have them evaluated. |
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IN MEMORIAM
Friend and Cannery Row colleague, Andy Case, passed away on October 22nd, 2017. This kind and gentle
man who loved Cannery Row and became a close friend and confidant of both Ed Ricketts Jr. and Nancy Ricketts
of Sitka, Alaska, will deeply missed. He stepped onto Cannery Row to work at the Monterey Bay Aquarium as
an aquarium technician, fell in love with old Cannery Row, and became part of keeping the Ed Ricketts legacy
alive and growing. Andy was preparing to relocate to Japan to join his wife and son when he passed away.
Insiders will know how very much he will be missed.
–MK Hemp
 MK Hemp photo |
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| Andy Case, driving the Cannery Row
contingent to Mill Valley, north of San Francisco, to present Ed Jr. with his father's lost Pacific Biological Laboratories business contact cards with addresses from literally All Over The World, missing since the Lab's 1936 fire. |
Andy was a regular visitor to Japan as
part of the aquaria business he built after his years at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. When Andy married his lovely Japanese wife, Mikuyo, he promised he would move to Japan in 15 years. Andy, Mikuyo, and son Taiki lived in Carmel Valley, where Mikuyo worked in the wine business. Andy was preparing to make the personal and professional move when he became ill and passed away. |
Make your reservations NOW because
space is limited to attend
the Cannery Row Foundation's
October 21st PBL tours to honor
the era of "Doc's Lab" Club Members.
Help devoted fans of PBL celebrate: from
Founder Harlan Watkins ...
MK Hemp photo
to the last of the members, Frank Wright,
who passed away on September 25th.
Frank Wright 2012 in Lab (Carmel Mag)
For questions or to volunteer as a CRF "Row Rat"
e-mail tours@canneryrow.org
ARCHIVE
Make your reservations NOW to attend the Cannery Row Foundation's
July 15th PBL tours to honor Kalisa Moore, the acclaimed
"QUEEN OF CANNERY ROW"
(January 31, 1926 - October 14, 2009)
MK Hemp photo
Reservations for 2-hour tours at 10AM, 12 Noon, and 2PM
on Saturday, July 15th, must be made at
tours@canneryrow.org.
Walk-ins are welcome—depending on limited space available.
Donation is $15.00 at the door of the Lab at 800 Cannery Row,
in cash or personal checks to the Cannery Row Foundation
to help fund special events like these exclusive PBL tours.
How many chances do you think you're going to have
to be in Ed Ricketts' Lab for a day like this?
Here's a taste of what's on tap:
Come with your favorite Kalisa story to share!
We hope you enjoyed the 2017 Steinbeck Festival,
Co-sponsored by the National Steinbeck Center
and the Cannery Row Foundation.
as part of the Cannery Row Foundation
support for
"Cannery Row is Happening"
Be part of it!
2016
Lots more news soon on the recent augmentation of
the Cannery Row Foundation Board,
the election of new Board Members,
and strategic planning for the future of the
Cannery Row Foundation, established in 1983.
It's Christmas In The Adobes in Old Monterey again!
And the Cannery Row Foundation again celebrates
John Steinbeck's August 1944 - April 1945 ownership of the
Lara-Soto adobe. This is where he, second wife Gwendolyn
and first son Thomas, lived when "Cannery Row" was published
and where he wrote "The Pearl."
The Cannery Row Foundation therefore celebrates this Monterey adobe
in a "1945" era, not 1845 — like all the other historic adobes in Monterey's 33rd
CHRISTMAS IN THE ADOBES TOURS
December 9th and 10th, 2016.
Outgoing President of the Cannery Row Foundation Board,
Michael Hemp, leads the 1940s era Steinbeck Adobe celebration as
"Capt. Mike" of BOMBARDIERS LOUNGE WWII Big Band Jazz
(broadcast on Clint Eastwood's "Play Misty For Me" jazz station
KRML on 237 Missions from 2004 til 2009...
Waiting to meet up with John Steinbeck at his Monterey adobe...
The Cannery Row Foundation regretfully announces the recent passing of
Thom Steinbeck (August 11, 2016) writer, eldest son of John Steinbeck
and decades-long friend of the Cannery Row Foundation...
(MK Hemp photo) back-stage, Cabrillo College, May 14, 2016)
Jesse Corsaut (July 23, 2016) Cannery Row's renowned artist, sculptor of the
Ed Ricketts Memorial, Cannery Diver's Memorial at San Carlos Beach Park,
the Kalisa Moore "Queen of Cannery Row" Memorial across from Doc's Lab,
and the Fisherman's Memorial at Fisherman's Wharf...
(Carmel Magazine, P 204-208)
Myron "Doc" Etienne (September 10, 2016) renowned attorney and PBL Group member
who at the time of his death was one of three Lab members left—and sadly,
not a word about the Lab by whoever wrote the opus obit...
and just days ago,
Dr. Jim Nieble, Doc's Lab member residing in Ashland, Oregon (no obit yet),
was one of the last two remaining PBL members...
...leaving Frank N. Wright of Carmel the last Doc's Lab member still with us
and who will be our honored guest at the CRF Lab Tours on October 22nd.
Announcing!
CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION
PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY TOURS
Commemorating the Pacific Biological Laboratory, Ltd. Lab Group
Saturday, October 22nd, 2016—9 AM to last tour starting at 4 PM
$15 per person donation
For Reservations e-mail: tours@canneryrow.org
Look for our Constant Contact E-mail with details soon!
Migrated from TheHistoryCompany.com
The "La Esperanza Packing Company"
Today known as Pacific Biological Laboratories!
A crucial historical research project by
Robin Rodriguez Aeschliman (2015)
Click Here
Posted 08/15/16
The Cannery Row Foundation sadly announces
the passing of two icons of Cannery Row...
Pacific Grove sculptor and artist, Jesse Corsaut (86) on July 29th.
His bronze sculptures for the Cannery Row Foundation include the
Ed Ricketts Memorial at Drake & Wave (the 1948 crash site with the Del Monte Express),
the Cannery Divers Memorial at San Carlos Beach park to commemorate the divers that
made Cannery Row's sardine industry's famous production possible, and
the Kalisa Moore "Queen of Cannery Row" bronze statue across from
Ed Ricketts' Pacific Biological laboratory. More on Jesse soon.
Thomas Steinbeck, first son of the man who made Cannery Row world famous
passed away on August 11th at the age of 72; he is survived by his devoted wife, Gail.
Thom was an early and earnest supporter of the fledgling Cannery Row Foundation in the
early 1980's and remained connected to us ever since. Much of Thom's fine literary production
expressed his affection and regard for the people and deep historical roots of the Central Coast.
We will miss them both very much...
Freshly revived (31 minute) video segment of the historic
GREAT CANNERY ROW REUNION
MONTEREY CONFERENCE CENTER
OUTRIGGER RESTAURANT, CANNERY ROW
GREAT CANNERY ROW REUNION FIRE MUSTER
May 13-15, 1983
(Revival a donation by The History Company)
Click here to play video
Completed Video segments to date of the
CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM 2016 by Speaker:
| Dr. Susan Shillinglaw |
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| John Gregg "Western Flyer" Owner |
John
Gregg: “Restoration of the Western
Flyer.” Marine geologist and new owner of the
Western Flyer and the force behind her future as a sea-going classroom to inspire kids into the marine sciences; he himself was inspired into his field in his youth by Ed Ricketts’ Between Pacific Tides inter-tidal handbook (Stanford University Press best seller) and John Steinbeck’s Log From The Sea of Cortez. John and his brother Andy made the surprise Public Announcement of the rescue and restoration vision for the world-famous Western Flyer at February 2015’s SYMPOSIUM. Sponsored by Monterey Bay Boatworks |
| Dennis Fry Former skipper of the "Gemini" (re-named "Western Flyer") |
Dennis
Fry: “Tales from an Alaska skipper of the
‘Western Flyer’—as the "Gemini’ and What I’ve Got To Show For it.” His father, Clarence Fry, bought the Gemini in 1976 (which had been named the Western Flyer until 1970) and Dennis occasionally skippered the family-owned and operated Gemini and other similar Pacific Northwest fishing boats in the late 1970s in a number of fisheries from Homer, Alaska. He is exhibiting the navigational artifacts of the Western Flyer that have not been seen for 40 years. Sponsored by Fisherman's Wharf Association. |
| Don Kohrs Hopkins Marine Station Librarian |
Donald
Kohrs: “Publication of the Revised Second
Edition of Between Pacific Tides, 1948.” Don Kohrs—Librarian of the Harold A. Miller Library of Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University—is the hottest groundbreaking Ed Ricketts researcher on the planet. This presentation is part of his substantial new and previously unknown research detail thatis re-writing much of what has been previously understood about America’s most famous ecologist, Edward F. Ricketts and his odyssey to re-publication supported by truly stunning evidence. Sponsored by Fisherman's Wharf Association. |
Check back soon for additional edited video presentations from the
CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM 2016
Thanks to all that made our early
Ed Ricketts Birthday Lab Tours on May 7th
another rousing success: especially our outstanding CRF
"Row Rat" Volunteers & docents, and our guests — lots of
first-time "Newbies" and several new "Ed Heads"
that had been waiting 30 years of more to be inside
Pacific Biological Laboratories!
MK Hemp photo
If you are not on our e-mail alert list and would like
advance notices of CRF tours, activities, and special events
like our CANNERY ROW SYMPOISUMS (see YouTube) just
e-mail us at tours@canneryrow.org.
You may opt-out of this list easily at any time;
but we hope you will always want to know what's going on next on
John Steinbeck & Ed Ricketts' Old Cannery Row.
Posted April 23, 2016
From the Archives:
Raw edit video of the Cannery Row Foundation's
"Great Cannery Row Reunion"
(that has survived) from May 13-15 1983:
Opening Ceremonies at the Monterey Conference Center with
• Michael Hemp, founding Executive Director of the Cannery Row Foundation
• Max Tadlock (CRF President & President of Monterey Peninsula College)
• Congressman Leon Panetta • Professor Richard Astro (Keynote Speaker)
With scenes from the Opening Ceremonies, Reunion Dinner Dance at the
Outrigger Restaurant on Cannery Row, and the Great Cannery Row Fire Muster
Click Here
CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM 2016
Program
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Cover
FrontCover |
Symposium Presenters and
their topics |
We wish to thank all of our fabulous Sponsors
Especially Co-Sponsors of the Wave Street Studios video of the Symposium
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 Piers Crocker, (Director of Norwegian Canning Museum) Stavanger emissary, presents ultra-deluxe Norwegian sardines to Monterey mayor, Clyde Roberson, in a "Sardine Capitals of the World" mayoral exchange. CRF Lab Tour "Row Rats" Dave Barker and Jeri Rossi observe the ceremony. Scott Teaford photo |
 Norway's Mayor of Stavanger, Christine Sagen Helgø |
 CRF Lab Tour Docent, David Barker, profiling marine biologist Ed Ricketts. Scott Teaford photo |
 Jeri Rossi helps historian
Bob Enea with exhibits in his account of
the 1940 Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage of the Western Flyer to the Sea of Cortez with his uncles, skipper Tony Berry & seaman Sparky Enea.
Scott Teaford photo
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 Archivist and CRF Board Member, Pat Hathaway, organizes prints available to Pacific Biological Laboratories tour guests in the party room of Lab. Scott Teaford photo |
 Bill Frew receives the EFR
bronze artist proof by Ricketts Memorial
sculptor, Jesse Corsaut
and major membership in the Cannery Row
Foundation from historian and CRF president, Michael Hemp. Scott Teaford photo |
Migrated from TheHistoryCompany.com
The Cannery Row Foundation
urges you not to miss author Kevin Bailey's
fascinating presentation of his new book
"The Western Flyer"
at the National Steinbeck Center
Thursday Evening, May 7th
from 6 til 8 PM at
One Main Street, Salinas
(TOMORROW EVENING!)
Guest Author Kevin M. Bailey resurrects this forgotten
witness to the changing tides of Pacific fisheries.
He draws on the Steinbeck archives, interviews with family
members of crew, and more than three decades of working
in Pacific Northwest fisheries to trace the depletion of marine
life through the voyages of a single ship.
This is a free event. Seating is limited. No reserved seating.
Reservations are now open for
Ed Ricketts Birthday tours of
Pacific Biological Laboratories
Saturday, May 16th, 2015 — hourly tours 9 AM to last tour at 4 PM.
E-Mail us at tours@canneryrow.org (preferred) or (831) 659-2112:
let us know how many in your group, what hourly tour you'd like to be on
and your e-mail and a cel phone number. We will confirm your
reservation by return e-mail.
MK Hemp photo
on the restoration and return of the historic WESTERN FLYER...
(from "The Log From The Sea of Cortez")
If you missed the Cannery Row Foundation's CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM
in February at Hopkins Marine Station MONTEREY BOAT WORKS Auditorium,
make reservations for our Saturday, May 16th, Edward F. Ricketts Birthday Lab tours.
We'll recap the Official Announcement of the purchase of the Western Flyer and the
vision for its restoration and return to Monterey as a floating classroom.
Anne Shaffer photo
Western Flyer when purchased early in 2015 at Port Townsend, Washington...
MK Hemp photo
John Gregg, Bob Enea with Western Flyer photo, Andy Gregg.
Above are the Western Flyer's new owners, marine geologist John Gregg (left)
and Andy Gregg (right) with Bob Enea, CRF board member and Monterey's
acclaimed fishing historian related to the Western Flyer skipper, Tony Berry
and deckhand, Sparky Enea, from the 1940 voyage to Baja California's
Sea of Cortez with John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts.
Make your reservation NOW for this rare chance
to be in Ed Ricketts' Lab for such a great occasion!
For reservations: e-mail tours@canneryrow.org (preferred),
or call (831) 659-2112
Bring your cameras, dress in layers, and enjoy another rare opportunity
to be inside Pacific Biological Laboratories for an hour of historians,
literary scholars, marine biologists, CRF docents and "Row Rat" Volunteers,
refreshments, and a chance to wander the entire Pacific Biological Laboratories.
Donation is $15 per person at the door; cash or personal check to the CRF.
Make sure your friends and family make reservations for this rare chance to be in "Doc's Lab."
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Just In!
click here for its feature on
The CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM,
a smash hit with rockstar Steinbeck scholars,
historians, documentary films and
exciting new Ed Ricketts research,
and an official announcement of the change in
ownership of the Western Flyer (from the Sea of Cortez)
for a full restoration as a working classroom
on Monterey Bay.
Stay tuned to this story here, or as it happens at
The History Company.
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CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM
on Saturday, February 21st, 2015!
THE CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION
In Association with THE HISTORY COMPANY
Presents the 2015 debut of our new annual
CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM
At the Hopkins Marine Station "Monterey Boat Works" Auditorium
9 AM to 5 PM on Saturday, February 21st, 2015
Open to the Public • $25 per person admission
Featuring historic, literary, ecological, and documentary film presentations:
MORNING SESSION (begins promptly at 9:00 AM)
Prof. Richard Astro, Drexel University ("John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist")
Robert Enea ("Monterey Fishing Industry and Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez")
Special Announcement
Michael K. Hemp ("Cannery Row: The Industrial Stage for John Steinbeck's Cannery Row Fiction")
From Paris, France, Dr. Eva Lothar (Film Documentary 1972, "Street of the Sardine")
INTERMISSION FOR LUNCH
You are invited to bring your own "Brown Bag" or (by a special arrangement with Hopkins Marine Station)
enjoy Kuki's Gourmet Food Truck for an economical special menu for the Symposium event!
AFTERNOON SESSION (resumes promptly at 1:00 PM)
Steven Federle, Solano College (The Making of John Steinbeck's Short Story "The Snake")
Don Kohrs, Hopkins Marine Station Librarian and Edward F. Ricketts Researcher
("Ed Ricketts: The Publishing of Between Pacific Tides First Edition (1939)"
Steve and Mary Albert Pacific Grove Filmmakers ("The Great Tide Pool") Film
Prof. Susan Shillinglaw, San Jose State University
("Layered Fiction and Deep Ecology: John, Ed, Carol and The Grapes of Wrath")
AFTER THE HOPKINS PROGRAM
an informal reception at
The "Steinbeck: The Art of Fiction" exhibit gallery
2nd Floor of the American Tin Cannery (across the street from Hopkins Marine Station)
(Benjamin Brode, artist and co-creator with Thomas Steinbeck of their new book, presents a reading of
"In Search of the Dark Watchers") • www.BigSurDarkWatchers.com
For Symposium reservations e-mail to: symposium@canneryrow.org
You will be e-mailed a PayPal invoice for payment, which becomes your
ticket(s) to this extraordinary debut Cannery Row Symposium.
Attendance is limited to the first 120 reservations!
Don't miss this cutting-edge exposition of current, cutting-edge research
and information on Cannery Row history, literature, and ecology by
an unparalleled panel of historians, educators, and experts in
tomorrow's legacies of old Cannery Row.
Attendance is limited to the first 120 reservations only
at Stanford University's historic Hopkins Marine Station
MONTEREY BOAT WORKS Auditorium.
ACT NOW!
Get your reservations before this historic event sells out!
symposium@canneryrow.org
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Special thanks to Chairman David Barker for his leadership in
the Cannery Row Foundation's 2014 hosting of the "Steinbeck Adobe"
in Monterey's annual "Christmas In The Adobes" tours. Our thanks
also extend to CRF "Adobe Rat" Scott Johnson, City of Monterey docent,
for his support, participation, and Steinbeck readings—a new feature this year.
MK Hemp photos
 Johnson & Barker in-character for 1944 (not 1844) |
 Barker with CRF volunteer, Tracy Campbell |
 Barker with enigmatic "Mexican Mona Lisa" |
 Scott Johnson with "Mona Lisa" |
 CRF Docent Dr. Frank Douglas |
 Scott Johnson reading Steinbeck |
 Part of the hundreds of visitors to the Steinbeck-Lara-Soto Adobe this season |
And thanks to all our CRF docents ("Adobe Rats")
Michael Guardino, Tracy Campbell, Dr. Frank Douglas, Andrea Satterfield
David Barker, Scott Johnson, Michael Hemp.
Let us know if you'd like to assist us at the Steinbeck Adobe next year.
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It's that time of the year again!
The Cannery Row Foundation announces
we will again hold open the
STEINBECK ADOBE
(Steinbeck-Lara-Soto Adobe) for holiday guests
as part of Monterey Historic State Parks Association's
30th anniversary of CHRISTMAS IN THE ADOBES
Tickets available at www.MHSPA.org
To be a Cannery Row Foundation volunteer
or for more information, click here to help us celebrate
the famous adobe owned by John Steinbeck in 1944-1945
where he wrote "The Pearl."
MK Hemp photo
Go to our "Western Flyer" Newsletter for details
Thanks to all that attended our last scheduled Lab tour of 2014
Saturday, October 11th, Pacific Biological Laboratories
honoring Harlan Watkins and the private men's club
he organized among friends, which preserved the Lab
from 1958 until its sale to the City of Monterey in 1993
as an international literary and historical site.
MK Hemp photos
 Harlan and Louise Watkins in the Lab |
 Plaque to Harlan |
The most important place on Cannery Row |
 Steve Crouch photo of the men's club c. 1986 |
Reservation information at tours@canneryrow.org
Cannery Row Company honors Row history with dedication of the
Cannery Row Monument
(A public art project donated by the Cannery Row Company)
Located at Steinbeck Plaza above McAbee Beach • Cannery Row & Prescott • Monterey
Dedication Ceremonies were held on February 26, 2014
MK Hemp photos
 Cannery Row Monument |
 Ted Balestreri, Managing General Partner Cannery Row Company |
 Monterey Mayors
Mr. & Mrs. Dan Albert • Chuck Della Sala |
 Laura Davidian • Ted Balestreri Leon Panetta • Bert Cutino |
 John Steinbeck, top of the pile |
 Ed Ricketts |
 Ed Ricketts closer |
 A girl from the Lone Star? |
 Madam Flora Wood |
 Chinese fisherman |
 Steinbeck looking down on Cannery Row Company founders Balestreri • Cutino • Davidian • Zarounian |
 Ocean-side of Monument on Steinbeck Plaza |
For more information call the Cannery Row Company at (831) 649-6690
This article created and donated by The History Company
Thanks to all who made our Steinbeck Birthday
Doc's Lab Tours a major success!
This communication created and donated by The History Company
MK Hemp photo
Monday, January 31st, (Kalisa's Birthday) at noon
at Bruce Ariss Way across the street from Ed Ricketts' Lab
the Cannery Row Foundation unveiled the bronze memorial
to Kalisa Moore "The Queen of Cannery Row"
by renowned scultor Jesse Corsaut.
Filmed by John Harris.
See it here on YouTube:
Part 1 • Part 2
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Thanks to all of you who made the
"Doc's Lab" Tours on Saturday, January 29th, 2011
commemorating Kalisa Moore (1926-2009)
"The Queen of Cannery Row"
another milestone event.
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LAB NEWS:
Termite control accomplished!
MK Hemp photo
Lab Group member, Frank Wright, at the Lab with its recent Urban Camoflage for termite tenting.
(Click on photo for larger image)
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Become a Member of the Cannery Row Foundation
(Click here to donate)
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New book by Thomas Steinbeck
features Cannery Row Chinese Settlement
( for larger image)
An excellent read that belongs in any Cannery Row book shelf!
Click Here for an interview with Thom at Simon & Schuster
Buy on Amazon.com
Buy on Barnes & Noble.com
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New Board Members seated!
Dr. Susan Shillinglaw
Mr. James Levitt
Mr. Gary Varga, Attorney at Law
Press Release on The Western Flyer Newsletter
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NEW:
Vintage Views of the Cannery Row Foundation
(a little of our history — constantly under construction)
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From the Bulgarian Shores of the Black Sea,
a story of Steinbeck and a search for "Cannery Row"
by Quantum Biophysicist, Dr. Alex Gochev.
(A link from The History Company)
Follow this link to the 2009
Cannery Row Foundation
"Christmas In The Adobes"
featuring
Thursday night videos of
Barbara Evan's Flamenco Dancers
at the CRF's Steinbeck's Lara Soto adobe tour:
(Cell phone quality video and audio until real video arrives)
1. "Sevilliana"
2. More "Sevilliana"
3. Artist Lana Loukianenko joins in the festivities
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Follow this link to the Kalsia Moore Archive
(Click on Kalisa)
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Announcing the
Kalisa Moore
"Queen of Cannery Row" Memorial!
A bronze
memorial by Jesse Corsuat
to be located at Bruce Ariss Way, Cannery Row.
Fundraising
has begun. Your help is requested to honor
Kalisa Moore's incredible 50 years on Cannery Row.
More informaton soon.
The
Kalisa Moore Memorial Sculpture for Cannery Row
(click
here)
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Celebration of Life for Kalisa Moore,
the "Queen of Cannery Row"
(Click here)
Kalisa in Ed Ricketts' Lab, 1997
MK Hemp photo
Cannery Diver's Memorial completed (scroll below)
Become a Member here
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A new Cannery Row short feature on YouTube
by vacationing British filmmaker, Simon Morris
(posted by The History Company)
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Thank you to Ed Ricketts researcher Robbie Behrens
for the digital file of this unedited 1983 recording (in its entirety)
of an interview by
Michael Hemp with Joseph Campbell.
(a link from The History Company)
Including a visit by Joseph Campbell to Ed Ricketts' Lab,
made possible by PBL member Frank Wright.
(also in the interview)
This is interview is also part of the collection of interviews by historian Michael Hemp
digitized by and for the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas.
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A New Feature of the CRF Website!
HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION
#1. George Walker, Attorney.
We owe the existence of the non-profit Cannery Row Foundation
to its pro-bono (no charge) incorporation in the fall of 1982 by Monterey attorney
George Walker. The legal grunt work was performed by one of his
young attorneys, Robert Rosenthal. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude
to them both for the articles of incorporation accepted and promulgated by
the State of California on February 17th, 1983.
Robert Rosenthal went on to serve as the Cannery Row Foundation's
second President of the Board of Directors (1984-85).
— Michael K. Hemp
Founder and 2009 President of the Board of Directors
(Watch for more CRF historical facts)
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ANNOUNCING!
The publication of A. L. "Scrap" Lundy's
"Real
Life on Cannery Row:
Real People, Places and Events that Inspired John
Steinbeck."
The book’s
forward is by Thomas Steinbeck
Photos
below
from the Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Premier Book Release
2:00 PM at the National
Steinbeck
Center, Salinas, CA.
 MK Hemp photo The National Steinbeck Center, Salinas. |
 MK Hemp photo Author and CRF Board Member, Scrap Lundy. |
Michael Hemp photos
"Real Life on Cannery Row:
Real People, Places and Events that Inspired John
Steinbeck"
available soon
from the Cannery Row Foundation website.
was constructed by (then) board member, Bill Johnk,
and exhibited at the Monterey Maritime & History Museum,
5 Portola Plaza near Fisherman's Wharf.
The museum is now temporarily closed.
The exhibit—on loan to the Cannery Row Foundation
by the Oakland Museum of California—will soon
announce a new venue for its public exhibit!
<>Please contact us if you would like to nominate a suitable location
for this unparallelled historic model of the Row in the 1940s.
By special arrangement with the Oakland Museum of California,
the model on an extended exhibit—as the centerpiece of
the 25th Anniversary of the Cannery Row Foundation.
Most of the book "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck happens in
this model of old Ocean View Avenue, nicknamed, "Cannery Row."
More views by clicking here.
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Pavers installation around the memorial completes
the design.
New photos of the project completed
on
November 2, 2009:
(Installed by Jim Young
Masonry, Monterey)
Click on each image for
larger view.
(MK Hemp photos)
Details
of the Cannery Divers Memorial Project
to the brave hard hat divers of Old Cannery Row. The Row
would never have achieved its fame without them.
MK Hemp photo
First photos of the unveiling and dedication
ceremonies at 1:00 PM, Friday April 18th, 2008.
(Send your digital photos to us)
NEW!
Click here for a link to Historical Markers Data Base
The Cannery Row Divers Memorial is on it.
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E-mail us at:
info@canneryrow.org
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Authentic Cannery Row historic sardines labels to download,
compliments of www.SardineKing.com
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Kalisa's La Ida Cafe passes into Cannery Row history
as "The Queen of Cannery Row" finds new digs:
Wave Street Studios (the site of the historic home of
Quock Mui, aka "Spanish Mary") where Kalisa Moore lived
for several years; now the site of Wave Street Studios
and the Quock Mui Tea Room & Gift Shop
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A look back into Cannery Row, October 1976:
The Hovden Fishmeal Warehouse dock with
Kalisa's restaurant sign at David Avenue tracks.
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The "Western Flyer" on-line Newsletter
of The Cannery Row Foundation
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Photo Coverage
Summary of the Great Cannery Row Reunion 2005
THE GREAT CANNERY ROW REUNION OF 2005
was held at the
MONTEREY CONFERENCE
CENTER—STEINBECK FORUM
AND (3RD LEVEL) CONCOURSE—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 2005.
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