WESTERN FLYER NEWS on YouTube & Chapter 29

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The History Company invites you to



https://bit.ly/3jcbPR9
also see STEINBECK NOW for detail.

The National Steinbeck Center "Inspired Talks" Webinar Series Premier

October 8, 2020
can be seen on YouTube (1:51)

Hope you enjoyed
 the Virtual
STEINBECK COUNTRY UNITED
Global Festival

Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, 2020.

For Tickets, click here!



For a full agenda of the Festival, Click here.

Cannery Row historian Michael Kenneth Hemp
is featured in a 12:00 PM Steinbeck Roundtable


with moderator Dr. David Wrobel, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
of the University of Oklahoma and National Visiting Steinbeck Scholar



Author, journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee William Souder
with his new Steinbeck book "Mad at the World,"


and distinguished historian and lecturer Dr. Carol McKibben,
author and professor of Urban Studies at Stanford University

12:00 PM Steinbeck Roundtable

For more information be sure go to www.steinbeck.org:








The Answer:
New research by The History Company unveils a major
new history for Washington State's Hood Canal, already famous
historically for its timber, oysters, striking natural beauty, and tourism.

Hood Canal sunrise	Mt.Washington & Mt. Elinor	Hood Canal Perfect

By Cannery Historian, Michael Hemp	By Hood Canal Historian, Michael Fredson	By Hood Canal Historian, Michael Fredson

To begin this adventure or for more information
and to purchase any or all of these essential books.
 Click here






Restoration of the Western Flyer Update:

This image is from Episode 17 on YouTube.

The restoration process is a magnificent sight and a tribute to rare wooden boat shipwright
skills still alive in the Pacific Northwest. Be part of this major historic achievement; make a
donation at www.WesternFlyer.org. And if you can, make another donation to the restoration
of a historic vessel under restoration wherever you live.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

The History Company and Cannery Row Foundation connections to the Western Flyer began with the
creation of the Cannery Row Foundation in Ed Ricketts' Lab in 1983. By 1984 the Cannery Row Foundation board
announced efforts to acquire and return the Western Flyer to Monterey as a working non-profit
historical and educational icon of Monterey and Cannery Row's sardine fishing and canning heyday.

"Coastings..." May 11, 1983

(February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968)

Monterey Herald, February 27, 1978




The Queen of Cannery Row kept the Steinbeck & Ricketts
movement alive for decades before help arrived with her
annual "Cannery Row Steinbeck's Birthday Party" at Kalisa's
La Ida Cafe. Formation of the Cannery Row Foundation
was still 5 years away. More on this amazing woman
throughout this website.

Hope you had a wonderful Steinbeck's Birthday...
and sorry Kalisa's not there on the old Row to throw another
annual Steinbeck Birthday celebration upstairs in the
old La Ida Ida Cafe.
Some of you now know you were blessed to have been there
for one...or more.

Cover actual size is 8.5" x 11"



• The new silver foil stamped cover and trim of the expanded "CR 4.0"
• Cover design by Bridges Design Group, Los Angeles.


The Perfect New Years Gift for the Steinbeck, Ricketts, Cannery Row
and maritime Pacific Northwest history fans in your life.

$29.95 by PayPal (below) with free USPS Media Mail shipping.

AUGUST 1 - 2 2020	Virtual 75th Anniversary Celebration of John Steinbeck''s 1945 "Cannery Row"... Cannery Row historian; Steinbeck, and Ricketts authority; Featured Speaker and Program Consultant: Steinbeck Festival 2020 at the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, California. Interactive on-line STEINBECK FESTIVAL 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. Click here for information
Feb. 3 2020	Cascade Club of Tacoma luncheon at the Tacoma Country Club, Lakeview. "New Horizon for Pacific Northwest History" and Tacoma's role.
Feb. 20 2020	Tacoma Yacht Club: Open to the Public—Admission Free. Cannery Row's Connection to the Hidden History of the Maritime Pacific Northwest, Ed Ricketts' development of Ecology in the PNW, John Steinbeck & the Western Flyer, "The Sea of Cortez," and historic Tacoma Waterfront as the "Birthplace of the Western Flyer."
Jan. 30 2020	Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs Forum, at the Cottesmore, 2909 14th Avenue NW, Gig Harbor.
Jan. 26 2020 Review:	HOOD CANAL'S NEW HISTORY at the Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club, Union, WA. Open to the Public. Mason County Historical Society Lecture. MCHS Newsletter event review.
Jan. 8 2020	"THE NEW HORIZONS FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST HISTORY" at Gig Harbor Kiwanis International Chapter 34 at Harbor Place at Cottesmore, 1016 29th Street NW, Gig Harbor.
Dec. 10	"The New History of the Pacific Northwest" at the Weatherly Inn, Highlands Parkway, Tacoma. 1:30 – 3:00 PM. Tacoma Historical Society Lecture Series.
Sep. 27	Mason County Historical Society presentation aboard the cruise of the Hood Canal from the Alderbrook Lodge at Union to Hoodsport, WA, and return aboard the "Lady Alderbrook."
Sep. 17	Fiero Marine Life Center and NOAA Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Speakers Series: John Wayne Marina, Sequim, WA. 6:00 to 7:30 PM followed by a "Meet the Author"and booksigning.
Sep. 9	Tacoma Historical Society Lecture Series:  University of Puget Sound, Tacoma. Murray Boardroom, Wheelock Center. 7 to 9 PM, with book signing. Free Admission.
Aug. 13	SEA Discovery Center (Poulsbo, Washington) of Western Washington University • speaking engagement 6-7 PM. Free. Archival PowerPoint premier of "Cannery Row 4.0"
	• Announcing the publication of the expanded "CANNERY ROW, The History of Old Ocean View Avenue and Its Connections to the Pacific Northwest" "Cannery Row 4.0" enters distribution; Special Offer direct orders; Click Here for CR 4.0 features and prices and for archival photo Power Point speaking engagements,
	• The Spanish fish-packing history of what became Ed Ricketts' Lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories (by Robin Aeschliman)
	• The newest Western Flyer Foundation (WesternFlyer.org) YouTube video of restoration of the Western Flyer by the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op, Port Townsend, Washington.

E-mail or call (831) 236-2990 to book an Archival PowerPoint Speaking Engagement.







Cannery Row and Pacific Northwest History just got a lot bigger!





ANNOUNCING THE JULY 2019 PUBLICATION OF THE
Expanded Fourth Edition of Cannery Row's history book ("CR 4.0")

Incorporating current Pacific Northwest research on
Ed Ricketts and his 1930s and 1940s expeditions
to Puget Sound, northern shores of Washington,
the Strait of Jaun de Fuca, Vancouver Island, and
the 1932 voyage of the "Grampus" from Tacoma
to Sitka and Juneau, Alaska—in Ricketts' pursuit
of the research, observation, and collection of
marine biological specimens in his

to Mexico's Gulf of California, and the co-authored
 
"Sea of Cortez
A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research"



(Published in 1941; Steinbeck's only co-authored work)

Or get yours—and for gifts—on the Monterey Peninsula at:

Cannery Row: the Wing Chong Market and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Bookstore
Pacific Grove: Bookworks
Salinas: The Best Cellar at the Steinbeck House — and the National Steinbeck Center


or ask for it a your local bookstore!




And proud to be in-room for Cannery Row guests at

The Monterey Plaza Hotel and Spa
The Spindrift Inn
The Monterey Bay Inn
The Victorian Inn

Announcing one of the new special features of the
new, expanded Cannery Row 4.0

"The La Esperanza Packing Company"

Robin Aeschliman's brilliant research on how her grandparent's
partnership in an ill-fated Spanish fish packing venture at
740 Ocean View Avenue resulted in the location of Ed Ricketts'
historic Pacific Biological Laboratories.

Click Here




If you haven't already seen this, you should.
From our compatriots at the Western Flyer Foundation:



Click here for an introduction to the Ed Ricketts connection to:
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
The Western Flyer
The Sea of Cortez
The Log from the Sea of Cortez

And for the collection of YouTube progress videos of
the restoration in progress on the Western Flyer
at the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op
in Port Townsend, Washington.


 



A Note from the back-logged in-box...

Once in a while research involves discoveries of amazing treats for the eye.
Taking a research break and getting to sort, file, staple, fold and mutilate
all the assorted missives in the in-box I can't help but show you this:

To say Robbie Beherens is incredibly artistic is to so understate so.
Let your eyes speak: this is not only art, it is art with Ed Ricketts in every blink.
I needed to share this with all of the "Ed Heads" out there who know about Ed.
Newcomers may find it reason enough to look into why Ed is such a big deal
with his fans from Steinbeck, fans of very his own, marine biologists, and
his collegial researchers whether on Cannery Row, the Sea of Cortez...
or the Pacific Northwest.

"For Robbie who knows why or should"







"And now back to our previous presentation in progress..."








Thanks to everyone for the great turnouts at both

Center For Wooden boats in Seattle
who graciously provided overnight accommodations
on the historic 1909 MV Lotus


                             MK Hemp photo

and the Tacoma Yacht Club
which had a surprising number of Californians and Steinbeck fans,
even some that knew a bit about Ed Ricketts and the Western Flyer.
They all know a lot  more now.






February 15th, 2019


UPCOMING PACIFIC NORTHWEST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
by Michael Kenneth Hemp:




"Winter at the Western Flyer, Port Townsend" photo by Peter Hemp


"Ed Ricketts in the Pacific Northwest and
the Saga of the Western Flyer"

at the

Wagner Educational Forum
at the Center For Wooden Boats, Seattle
Free Admission • Donations Appreciated

Friday, February 15th, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Click Here for information.