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MICHAEL KENNETH HEMP

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Historic Research * Heritage Marketing * Consulting * Lectures * Special Events

 CANNERY ROW   •   BOMBARDIER'S LOUNGE (Returning Soon)  •   END OF LIES, The Nadjik Pheromone
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Updated on February 27, 2024


HAPPY JOHN STEINBECK'S BIRTHDAY!
In the 1970s to the late 1990s that would mean a Party at Kalisa's La Ida Cafe:
the establishment in Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" where Eddie the part-time bartender
poured all of an evening's leftover drinks into a jug behind the bar
for Mac and the boys up at the Palace Flophouse above the tracks.
And where Kalisa Moore kept the spirit and fame of
John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts alive for all of us...

Keep the memory, or the wish to have been there...





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WESTERN FLYER NAVIGATIONAL ARTIFACTS
WILL BE GOING TO PUBLIC AUCTION
Efforts have been unsuccessful to place the Fry Collection of Western Flyer Artifacts

Western flyer artifacts

at Tacoma, Washington, "Birthplace of the Western Flyer"
or the Western Flyer's new home port of  Monterey.

Look for a feature and information soon on

STEINBECK NOW

http://www.steinbecknow.com



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CANNERY ROW • JOHN STEINBECK • ED RICKETTS
WESTERN FLYER
• SEA OF CORTEZ
In facts and photos for that
perfect gift for someone you know.



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I'm big in Bulgaria!

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ISBN: 978-954-089-1681-1

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Click here for the 2009 link to Vimeo video of a live interview by Michael Hemp at Wave Street Studios (Cannery Row)
Featuring "Queen of Cannery Row" Kalisa Moore, Bulgarian Professors George Dechev, and Professor Alex Gochev,
after a guided tour of their delegation of Ed Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories, Monterey, California.

With active links for more of the story, far below near the bottom of The History Company site scroll:


Gochev story

[More details by Dr. Gochev with photos at the active links for this story near the bottom of this site scroll]




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The History Company is proud to announce another fine Independent Book Store now selling our
history of  John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and  its connections to the maritime Pacific Northwest:

Eagle Harbor Books
Danielson's
                                                                        David and Jane Danielson

157 Winslow Way E. • Bainbridge Island • WA 98110
(206) 8423-5332 • jane@eagleharborbooks.com



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Photos from the private Moss Landing party November 3,
and arrival of the Western Flyer at Monterey, November 4th, 2023
will be added soon.
(A full album soon, under construction)



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11/6/23
THE CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION
WESTERN FLYER
Newsletter 1994
(Designed, written and published by
CRF Executive Director, Michael Hemp)

We've waited a long time...

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The Western Flyer "Welcome Home" party
is 11 AM to 4 PM on Saturday November 4th, 2023,
on, Monterey, CA.

WFF Party


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Finally to Moss Landing, California, after midnight
October 6th, 2023.




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Once under way again, weather complicated plans.
The Western Flyer had to lay-over not far south
 at Brookings, Oregon, to await weather to clear.
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 WF Departs

WF © Ben King

Western Flyer moored at Newport, Oregon, September 24, 2023,
by ©2023 Ben King / Out West Photography • Newport


(CLICK HERE for more information)



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lecture
Wednesday • October 11th • From 4:00PM

Plan to attend another FREE Mason County Historical Society and Museum benefit
speaking engagement by MSHS&M lifetime member, author and historian,

Michael Kenneth Hemp returning to his familiar historical research turf on 
Washington State's Hood Canal—on Wednesday, October 11th, 2023.


Admission is free • Donations are appreciated

This return speaking engagement is again co-sponsored
by Union, Washington's renowned
Alderbrook Golf and Yacht Club
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
From 4:00 PM

330 E. Country Club Drive E.
Union, WA 098592 • (360) 898-2560


Alderbrook Golf & Ycht Club view

In addition to more on-going original historical research results
about the Hood Canal of the 1930s and the emerging record of an intense
research presence of pioneering
marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts,
the father of ecology, and his family during many spring and summers 
staying at the Gateway Inn (now Hoodsport's salmon hatchery)
there is more to exciting
news connected to Ed Ricketts.

The 1937 Tacoma-built "Western Flyer" was made world-famous by
Ed Ricketts and his more famous friend John Steinbeck for their
1940 voyage of "science and leisure" to Mexico's Sea of Cortez to remove
Steinbeck from death threats by California's Associated Farmers
for his dust bowl exposé of their sins in "Grapes of Wrath".

After over 7 years of restoration at Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op
and nearly another year at Snow & Company in Ballard (Seattle) for
installation of her hybrid diesel-electric propulsion, controls, electronics,
and ship's gear—on November 4th, Monterey & Cannery Row will
celebrate the return of the "Western Flyer" to Home Port Monterey.

You don't want to miss the most recent chapter in the saga of the
"Western Flyer" presented by (yours truly) the Cannery Row-Monterey
historian who, in 1984, announced the prospect of the return to
Monterey of the "Western Flyer"—the result of research by
colleague Bob Enea, Monterey's sardine fleet and Sicilian heritage.
Not the least of which is that Croatian skipper Tony Berry and
Steinbeck-famous deck-hand "Sparky" Enea were his uncles!

Please join me, the general public, and the members of both the Mason County
Historical Society and the Alderbrook Golf and Yacht Club for this
incredible story at 4Pm on Wednesday, November 11th.
Followed by a "Meet the Author" and book signing.

It's in here:

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Admission to this speaking engagement is free • Donations appreciated.



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Countdown to Western Flyer
Departure from Seattle to
home port Monterey...

Sign-up for the Western Flyer Foundation Newsletter
for up to date information and photography of
the last stages of the Western Flyer's eight-year
restoration at Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op
and now at Snow & Company, Ballard (Seattle) for
hybrid-diesel propulsion and technical outfitting.

If you're around the Seattle area, look out for her on
sea trials begun in-and-around the Lake Washington area.
Be a Western Flyer Finder and e-mail us your photos
we can share on this website (with your photo credits)
for the Western Flyer world that this site has been
championing since the early 1980s!

We also want to share our recognition for a creative
new Western Flyer logo by  graphic designer Zina Oliver:

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COME BACK SOON FOR MORE
HISTORY OF THE WESTERN FLYER


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July 25, 2023

It's the 25th of July, 2023. It was on this date in 1930,
Ed Ricketts was photographed by his close friend
(and 1939 co-author of "Between Pacific Tides")
Jack Calvin. They had arrived at Port Townsend,
Washington, from British Columbia's
Vancouver Island,
to be there specifically on this date—1000 miles from
Cannery Row—for the -3.42 low tide in this photo.
Carl Gray, Hood Canal tidal researcher, determined
this tide
would not come again for 30 years!


Ed Ricketts, kneeling in winged kelp at Port Townsend, July 25, 1930.          Jack Calvin photo/Pat Hathaway Collection


Many of you reading this may know that this photo is at
Port Townsend, Washington, where the 1937 Tacoma-built
Western Flyer would spend 8 years in magnificent restoration
 by the Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op. At this time
she is in Ballard (Seattle) undergoing the installation of
electronics and her hybrid-diesel propulsion!

Be ready for her impending return to Monterey;
to her new Home Port, with a life and detailed history
you should know as much as possible about—from where
the Western Flyer is authoritative history — as you
may see some of it deeper in this website. But the
only way you'll have the most complete history
anywhere of the Western Flyer is this 5th Edition of

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Please scroll below slightly to order.

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April 23, 2023
Are you ready for the
Return of the Western Flyer?

The restored Western Flyer is heading south soon
from Seattle to home port Monterey!

Cannery Row and Monterey have been
waiting since this Herald headline in 1984:

Herald
 Monterey historian Bob Enea was responsible for the search and discovery
of the re-named Western Flyer (to Gemini in 1970). This news story did not
include him in its composition.


GET READY FOR THE WESTERN FLYER DEPARTURE
from the maritime Pacific Northwest to home port Monterey


FROM THIS: The Gemini (Western Flyer) raised after 2nd sinking at Anacortes, Washington  June 24, 2013

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TO THIS: Restoration completed at Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op  June 29, 2022

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  Hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system installation under way at Snow & Company, Seattle  

Propulsion

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The organized chaos of nearing completion...for  her maritime Pacific Northwest departure to Monterey

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Western Flyer departure from Ballard (Seattle) Washington in a matter of weeks

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Stand-by for our announcement of the departure and its (Unannounced yet) destinations
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(Past Event)


On March 14th, 2023, the Western Flyer Foundation will present another program
to bring you up to date on the saga of the Western Flyer, plans for her future,
and an estimated date of her return to Monterey.

A Bit of Background
       
                                                                                                                                                                         
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Happy Steinbeck's Birthday
(February 2, 1902 - December 20, 1968)

John Steinbeck's Birthday gift to you
is the approaching date of the arrival
at Monterey of the Western Flyer upon
return to her new home port of  Monterey.

Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts "Ed Head"
fans:
Detailed news of the return of the Western  Flyer to
Monterey can be found at the Western Flyer Foundation
site along with a load of info and photos of the progress
of the restoration of one of the world's most famous boats.

www.westernflyer.org



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Get Ready!

The now world-famous Tacoma-built Western Flyer was chartered
in Monterey by John Steinbeck in 1940 for a scientific expedition
to Mexico's "Sea of Cortez" with his closest friend and mentor,
pioneering ecologist marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts.
It was also an escape from the backlash from Steinbeck's expose
of California's agricultural industry in "Grapes of Wrath."
The co-authored book from that journey became a heralded
anthem of ecological consciousness and the new holistic view
that humanity is interconnected to nature and its protection.

None of it could have been accomplished without a stout
Croatian-build Tacoma purse-seine fishing boat which has
emerged from an 8-year restoration at Washington state's
Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op, and very soon from
the
Seattle technical expertise of the Snow & Company
installation of a revolutionary hybrid propulsion system.

If you have not heard about any of this topic or have been
unaware of what a cultural, marine sciences, literary, and
historical accomplishment is about to happen at any time...

You need this authoritative one-of-a-kind book. Now:
 
by a historian-scribe and researcher connected to its identity,
historical, maritime, ecological, literary, and inter-cultural
 legacies since 1983. With credit to invaluable sources and
colleagues like Bob Enea of Salinas, California, on his uncles
 Croatian skipper Tony Berry and deckhand Sparky Enea; and
for his decades of dedication in locating the Western Flyer
...and assuring its survival.



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ISBN: 978-0-941425-06-3   (5th Edition since 1986)

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The Western Flyer Foundation is preparing to return the
Western Flyer to its home port of Monterey this spring.
Click here to learn more and support the debut of one of
the most famous and certainly most celebrated boats
in the world.



November 9th, 2022 • Hopkins Marine Station •  Western Flyer update Reception and Program



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Weather Cancellation. To be Rescheduled.

"New Horizons: Steinbeck's Cannery Row in Pacific Northwest History"
An archival images PowerPoint by MICHAEL KENNETH HEMP presented by the
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
December 3rd, 2022, at the
Wagner Educational Center • Center for Wooden Boats
1010 Valley Street, Seattle WA 98109

Open Free to the public from 12:15


Information for luncheon prior the event at: www.pugetmaritime.org


or call: (206) 812-5464
 




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The Western Flyer Foundation
at Hopkins Marine Station


Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station

• Reception at Miller Library of Hopkins Marine Station
• Presentation of the status and planning for the 2023 Arrival
of the Western Flyer at Home Port of Monterey


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Key Peninsula News
The Voice of the Key Peninsula
Vaughn, Washington

9/1/22
  Click here for the

NEWEST PRESS ON HISTORICAL RESEARCH BY MICHAEL KENNETH HEMP
ON ED RICKETTS & THE WESTERN FLYER



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"New Horizons: Steinbeck's Cannery Row in Pacific Northwest History"
An archival images PowerPoint by MICHAEL KENNETH HEMP at the
68th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference
September 29th to October1st, 2022, at Kennewick, Washington,
hosted by the Washington State Historical Society
in partnership with the Oregon Historical Society.

Presentation at 2:45 pm, Saturday, October 1, 2022
Columbia Center, Ballroom II/III
Kennewick, Washington

Click here for details.


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August 11, 2022

A Home-Style Monterey Podcast with everyone's Sicilian cousin
"Cousin Johnny Aliotti" about research bringing news
of the shared connections between Monterey
and the maritime Pacific Northwest.


"Buzzin' with Cousin"
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Re-naming and re-launching of the Western Flyer
(from Gemini back to Western Flyer)
June 29, 2022, Port Townsend, Washington.

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Click here soon for more photos.
Michael Hemp photos of the re-naming and re-launching of the Western Flyer on
June 26th, 2022, at Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op, Port Townsend, Washington.





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The 5th Edition is here!


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The new enlarged deluxe 5th Edition (since 1986) of
"CANNERY ROW, The History of John Steinbeck's
Old Ocean View Avenue and
Its Connections to the pacific Northwest"

This new enlarged edition provides additional original research about

•  Ed Ricketts and his maritime Pacific Northwest
marine biological research for his introduction of Ecology

•  The Pacific Northwest Croatian boat-building industry that enabled
Monterey's Sicilian sardine fleet to make it the Sardine Capital of the World"

•  John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts and the illustrated Saga of the Western Flyer

ISBN: 978-0-941425-06-3    $34.95

• Signed by the author • Shipped free by USPS Media Mail

• Your purchase includes an authentic 1940s Cannery Row sardine label (a $10 value)

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A Bombardier's Lounge segment from the past. www.bombardierslounge.com is being reformatted and will soon to be re-posted as a srand-alone site.

The Junior Officers Revolt at SAC headquarters

73 years ago, 34 Junior Officers from the Strategic Air Command's Headquarters
in Omaha, Nebraska,
the "best and brightest" Special Intelligence Officers of the
544th Aerospace Reconnaissance Wing
, were assigned to the worst places anyone
with their far above Special Intel clearances should ever have ever been allowed
to be stationed: in
South East Asia high-threat and wartime combat zones.

Here is the story as told in 2004 by former USAF Captain Michael Hemp
of
The History Company on its site www.bombardierslounge.com
— to be back online soon after 2 years Covid absence:



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“A DIFFERENT APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING STORY.”
The Lunar Landing of Apollo 11 and the Junior Officers Revolt at SAC Headquarters.
July 20, 1969…

July 19, 1969. Omaha, Nebraska—Strategic Air Force Command Headquarters. 
By order of SAC Commander-In-Chief, Gen. Bruce K. Holloway, 38 junior USAF Special Intelligence Officers are ordered to appear at a mandatory “Commander’s Call” in the second floor Command Staff briefing room of SAC HQ, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska. As I recall it was to be on Sunday, July 20th, 1969. Apollo 11 landed on the moon, but that was not the big story.

The orders required all 38 officers to assemble to account for their conduct in an embarrassing public relations bungle by the Air Force. One of the First Lieutenants at SAC’s elite and ultra-top secret 544th Reconnaissance Technical Wing, among the world’s top photo intelligence analysis units, inadvertently set off what became known in SAC command circles as the “Junior Officer’s Revolt.” Not exactly the Cain Mutiny, but it involved one of the very top Generals of the United States military.

The state of Nebraska enjoyed a special relationship with SAC and its succession of “Cincs,” or commander-in-chiefs. Between 1968 and 1969, an unusually rapid succession of SAC commanders took place. General Joseph J. Nazzaro was replaced by an interim commander, Gen. Keith Compton, succeeded by Gen. Bruce K. Holloway of “Flying Tigers” fame. Part of this close military/community cooperation involved fundraising for AKSARBEN (Yep, Nebraska spelled backwards), the state’s “United Way or Community Chest.” USAF personnel were expected to support a huge, high-pressure donations campaign. To refuse to donate or virtually “tithe” through USAF payroll deductions, it was threatened, would reflect on your military service record. Officers were threatened with “derogs” (negative notations) on their OERs (Officers Effectiveness Ratings) if they did not participate—something that would effect their career advancement and promotions. A lot of minimally paid enlisted men and struggling career officers caved in and signed up. Some held out, mostly junior (lieutenant and captain) “Reserve Officers,” not generally regarded as career officer material and therefore somewhat indifferent to pressure on their military futures since almost all expected to return to civilian status at the end of their service agreements.

July 16th Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its epic lunar mission. Mission commander, Neil Armstrong, and lunar module pilot “Buzz” Aldrin were preparing to walk on the moon on July 20th. It seems that about the same time they were leaving their lunar footprints, the mandatory SAC commander’s call of 544th Special Reconnaissance Intel Officers to SAC Headquarters commenced. What on earth could cause all this fuss during days this historic?

Junior Intel officers were not always cast in, or controlled by, the behavior protocols held dear by echelons of senior Air Force officers. A new breed, we enjoyed a certain intellectual and analytical independence beyond our rank, important to the critical thinking and analysis of everything from drone photography of the harbor at Haiphong, to SR-71 “Blackbird” multi-sensor photo and radar imagery from above 85,000 feet, to counting “Foxbat” aircraft on Soviet airfields and ICBM launch sites from space. Senior staff tolerated our certainties while chafing occasionally at our perceived impudence. But we were very good at what we did.    

First Lt. Nicholas King was the culprit. He had the nerve to write a scathing personal letter to the Chairman of AKSARBEN after they gifted the new SAC Commander, Gen. Holloway, with $40,000.00 of donated AKSARBEN funds to be used at the discretion of the SAC Commander-in-Chief. The gift was spent to transform the entrance and upstairs command staff offices from stark Curtis E. LeMay marble and pale green, to alternating panels of ocher wall covering and dark hardwood paneling. Thick ocher carpeting was installed at the SAC HQ Main Entrance and its upstairs command staff offices, including the CINC’s.

Lt. King’s letter suggested the next time AKSARBEN had $40,000 to throw away, rather than enable the beautification of the SAC entrance with charitable donation funds, they should consider helping with the Offutt AFB airmen’s barracks, many of them brick structures built before WWI that reached 120 degrees in summer (un-air conditioned, of course). Or, help the struggling facility for handicapped children of base personnel. And on…you get the idea. The letter was circulated though the super-secret subterranean labs of the HQ Intel photo interpreters, analysts, and briefing officers—almost all of whom were junior officers. Thirty seven other officers became signatory to Lt. King’s impudent pique, and off it went.

I can’t honestly recall if Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon by the time we assembled for the commanders call. Phone calls between us concluded we were in for a real chewing, some had heard and were terrorized that the Commander-in-Chief, himself, was going to tear into us. What a small handful of us knew—being his Special Intel briefers on a daily basis—was that this heroic WWII air ace was particularly inarticulate with even his half dozen staff generals at our briefings and was highly unlikely to be the one “ripping into us.” General Holloway, as expected, was not present for the meeting. It turns out that chore fell to his DCI (Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence) Lt. Gen. Dacey, who took to the podium. Gen. Dacey was a good choice; many of us liked him from our duties of briefing him regularly—finding him dashing, smart, incisive, erudite, and tough. This day he was volcanic.

General Dacey’s comments were angry, threatening, and for a while, effectively intimidating to most of the assembled young officers. He degraded us, railing for a while berating us for bringing dishonor on the Air Force by signing and sending the letter, breaking the chain of command, betraying our honor and duty as officers, and for conduct unbecoming an officer. It was at this time a hand shot up near the back of the room and Gen. Dacey paused to permit the question. It was not what he expected. The question asked “Why, when the Commander in Chief of the Strategic Air Command gets caught with his pants down, spending charity money donated by his troops, to decorate his offices and SAC HQ entrance, that WE are the ones guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer?” I swear I heard Dacey choke. A brief pandemonium erupted before order was restored. Several other unsolicited comments of the same nature erupted as nearly the entire group of us pushed back at the hypocrisy of this collective “spanking” for the mindless misdeeds of the Command. The intimidation had produced precisely the opposite effect it intended.

Order was quickly restored but as hard as Gen. Dacey tried to continue his offensive, he was met by surreptitious shouts and comments from the assembled officers who would simply not accept his ugly, threatening comments. The assembly was clumsily broken off, with attending senior officers visibly flabbergasted and enraged at our insubordinate conduct. The Commanders Call abruptly ended and all of us were ordered back to duty.

I hope this story reaches some of the other junior officers at this historic event. I would like to know their comments on this narrative, their feelings about it, and their personal consequences of having been part of what was thereafter called “The Junior Officers Revolt at SAC Headquarters.”

It seems that within a week or so, 37 of the 38 officers that signed the AKSARBEN letter had orders to some of the worst assignments at which an Intel Officer could be stationed. Only my friend, Capt. Lionel Smith, was spared out of all of us. He was simply so absolutely indispensable to the SAC satellite surveillance program he avoided similar punitive reassignment. The effect of this retaliation against the best intelligence community in the Strategic Air Command, their “best and brightest,” was to instantly strip SAC’s intelligence capability to perform daily critical intelligence analysis and procedures. And beyond that simple, blind revenge against its insubordinate junior officers was the location of our punitive assignments. They were considered the worst places they could possibly send us—all in combat zones of Viet Nam or high threat areas of Thailand. The Great SAC sin was that NONE of us, with our security clearances (far above TOP SECRET Special Intel) and working intelligence knowledge of our strategic surveillance programs, plans, platforms, capabilities, and assessments should have ever been assigned out of the continental U.S. Any of us falling into the hands of the enemy could have constituted a catastrophic setback for US military intelligence capabilities. That, however, was not a consideration in SAC’s response to intimidate and punish us.

My orders were to Task Force Alpha, Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, and after weeks of training at Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, I was on my way to the cushiest of our collective punishments, know to all as “Naked Phanny" RTAFB. A 4000’ asphalt strip cut out of the Northeast Thai jungle, it was the home of the 56th Special Operations Wing. Too short for jets, and with a Search and Rescue and Air Commando mission, it was a throwback to Korea and WWII. The prop aircraft inventory consisted of retiring A-26 Intruders (twin engine attack bombers from WWII), C-19 (WWII) Flying Boxcar gunships, three squadrons of A-1 Skyraiders (Korean War), CH-3 Jolly Green helicopters for search and rescue and air commando operations, and 0-2 and OV-10 forward air control aircraft. Only seven miles from the Mekong it was a short hop across Laos to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. I was there as an analyst in the seismic and acoustic sensor network that monitored and targeted troop and truck traffic shuttling war supplies through Laos to South Vietnam on the dirt road network of “the trail.” It was the best of the worst duty and conditions but hard to complain about when grunts were sent from South Viet Nam to NKP for R&R.

Capt. Nick King, on the other hand, had been sent to Phan Rang, South Viet Nam—a place called the armpit of Viet Nam and a really awful assignment. Reports reached us at NKP that he responded as we might have expected, with a peace symbol emblazoned on his bunker helmet; Nick also refused to salute the base commander and was reported to have responded, “What are they going to do to me? Send me to Phan Rang?” Years later, long after our military exploits, I heard he’d become an Assistant District Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky. And then a Tennessee Supreme Court Judge.

A closing comment on the Junior Officers Revolt. It wasn’t just the Junior Officers that were ultimately upset with the SAC command. A look at any photograph of SAC Headquarters shows a huge building with a central entrance opposite the walkway, easily identified with an ICBM missile motif, from the Officers Club to the main entrance. Well, it seems that when foul weather set in—a certainty in Omaha—the new ochre yellow carpets at the SAC HQ main entrance took to soiling heavily from the wet and slushy foot traffic from the Officers Club and main entrance arrivals. What happened next almost set off the “Senior Officers Revolt at SAC HQ.” Full “bird” Colonels without sufficient rank and clout, plus hordes of Lt. Colonels and      Majors accustomed to using the direct access to the Officer's Club or their offices in the HQ Building were barred from using the main entrance! They were required to walk the considerable distance (in freezing sleet and snow) to the far left or right wing entrances at each far end of SAC HQ. Indignant is not a strong enough reaction, though insubordination on the order of the Junior Officers Revolt at SAC Headquarters was not among their options.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left their iconic footprints from Apollo 11 on the surface of the moon on the weekend of July 20th, 1969. And now, as a small footnote to history, is the true (if unknown) story of that same date. The Junior Officers revolt at SAC Headquarters.

Michael K. Hemp (Capt. Monkey Hotel, NKP 1969-1970)
More detail, photos, and information at www.BombardiersLounge.com

SAC HQ

Strategic Air Command Headquarters Building from the Offutt AFB Officers Club.





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VLADIMIR PUTIN IS A WAR CRIMINAL
Along with those in America who politically support him
 and his enablers in our media and politics.




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Donate:

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN (Chef Jose Andres)  https://wck.org

and

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS

among many deserving supporters of Ukraine.






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From the Archives

A special Black Sea treat on a much lighter note FROM THE HISTORY COMPANY ARCHIVE:
A 2009 video interview at Wave Street Studios, Cannery Row, Monterey, moderated by Michael Hemp,
about a Bulgarian version of Ed Ricketts' Lab ("Eastern Biophysical")
on the shores of the Black Sea in 1970–
before the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Full story details near the bottom of the website scroll:


"THE STORIES ARE ALWAYS BETTER"
A Bulgarian Memoir by Dr. Alex Gochev



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NEW RESEARCH FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ARCHIVES
Olympia, Washington
Click Here for


archives link

by
Cannery Row's historian
MICHAEL KENNETH HEMP



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Western Flyer Update:

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The deck house is back on the Western Flyer. Click here to see it
being installed on December 4th, 2021, at the
Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op.




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    A LOOK BACK:
 More on the Western Flyer restoration:

WF PRERESTORE
The Western Flyer at Boat Haven, Port Townsend, 2013 • Anne Shaffer photo • Coastal Watershed Institute.org


YouTube
restoration videos at the
Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op

by Chris Chase of the Western Flyer Foundation.

Videos from the beginning of restoration to its near completion: all on YouTube videos.
Subscribe to the Western Flyer Foundation Channel on YouTube.
Donate to the Western Flyer Foundation here.

(Click here)
https://www.youtube.com/c/WesternFlyerFoundationChannel

(Earlier chapters are on YouTube Western Flyer)



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From the Archives of "Bombardier's Lounge"

A 4th of July, 1970, memoir...

OV-10

 I was Aerial Intel back-seat in an NKP OV-10 twin-turboprop
recon aircraft detached to
U-Tapao RTAFB, Thailand, on the Gulf of Siam
 
to open up aerial reconnaissance operations of Western and Central Cambodia
to determine enemy and friendly held territory.


Some not-so high altitude...

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Other than drawing small-arms fire from Angkor Wat this day
the mission was pretty uneventful, with the exception of when
we passed over a remote fortified jungle outpost...


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A Cambodian voice came up on a ragged radio frequency and said,
"Happy birt-day Amereecans for your country..."


More detail on our sister site: www.bombardierslounge.com



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connections between Cannery Row
and the martime Pacific Northwest.
There is no other such research and
publication anywhere else,

 

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Monterey's Beloved Photo Archivist-Historian
Pat Hathaway
(March 28, 1948 - January 4, 2021)
of the renowned Pat Hathaway Collection of California Views
(www.caviews.com)
suddenly passed away from mysethenia gravis (an Agent Orange cause)
at home in Pacific Grove, California, on Monday, January 4, 2021.

This GIANT of Monterey and California history and culture
will be terribly missed for the contributions of his 80,000 archival images
to the visual historical record of the development and preservation
of the history of the Pacific Coast.

Hathaway at Lab
                                                  door (Hemp)


His Cannery Row archival legacy lives on: 2019

15"covers


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[Archival post, 1970]
Take time out to thank a Vet on Veterans Day...
and fellow Vets: celebrate each other!

Capt. Monkey Hotel, NKP 1969-1970 
last mission day.
More on Bombardier's Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz


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                                                          last mission
                                                          day




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WF

WESTERN FLYER
NEWS on YouTube
&
Chapter 29



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[dated post]
The History Company invites you to

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



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The National Steinbeck Center "Inspired Talks" Webinar Series Premier

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October 8, 2020

can be seen on YouTube
(1:51)


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Hope you enjoyed
 the Virtual
STEINBECK COUNTRY UNITED
Global Festival


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

For Tickets, click here!

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For a full agenda of the Festival, Click here.

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

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with moderator Dr. David Wrobel, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
of the University of Oklahoma and National Visiting Steinbeck Scholar
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Author, journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee William Souder
with his new Steinbeck book "Mad at the World,"

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

McKibben


12:00 PM Steinbeck Roundtable

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


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big deal


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.

A history with many shared connections with Cannery Row, Monterey.

Hood Canal photography by George Stenberg
The "Go To" photographer for all things Hood Canal

www.georgestenbergphotography.com


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

The History Company now adds original research, discovery, and confirmation of
Hood Canal's major West Coast connections to its new historical cousin,
"John Steinbeck's Cannery" Row at Monterey, California.


  { SPECIAL OFFER HAS EXPIRED }

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

Three special books about the importance of the Hood Canal
and its crucial role in the nearly annual 1930s marine biological
research expeditions to the maritime Pacific Northwest by
pioneering
marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts (John Steinbeck's closest friend
and mentor) in his development and presentation of Ecology in
"Between Pacific Tides" published by Stanford University Press
 in 1939. It still remains one of the most popular books ever published
by Stanford University Press and is studied by students becoming
marine biologist even today. Hoodsport on the Hood Canal was the base
of operations from which Ricketts researched all over the maritime
Pacific Northwest.


The Hoodsport rental cabin-site location at the Gateway Inn,
now a salmon hatchery, has been located that Ricketts and his young
family occupied almost every spring-summer of the 1930s, with
the exception of one spring-summer at Tahuya across the Canal.
Collaboration of The History Company historian Michael Hemp
and Hood Canal historian Michael Fredson now make it possible to
discover and enjoy the until now an unknown and unappreciated
history of Hoodsport and the Hood Canal that now connects it to
the world-wide fame of Monterey, Cannery Row, John Steinbeck,
the Tacoma-built "Western Flyer" and the Sea of Cortez.


 


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Restoration of the Western Flyer Update:

Restoration progress on the Western Flyer at the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op at
Port Townsend, Washington, has been temporarily interrupted due to the COVID-19 Stay-At-Home
requirements, but work will resume when a safe pandemic re-opening is announced.
Chris Chase of the Western Flyer Foundation has released another in the YouTube series of
Western Flyer
restoration videos — Number 19! — that recaps some of the highlights of the
restoration progress videos to date. Treat yourself to a viewing of it on YouTube.
Or, better yet, subscribe to the videos to be kept up to date automatically.


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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.



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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, Monterey historian Bob
Enea was close to finding the Western Flyer and 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.

Herald WF 1984
March 20, 1984




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The Great Cannery Row Reunion
(May 1983)
at the creation of
The Cannery Row Foundation

"Coastings..." May 11, 1983
reunion
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John Steinbeck's Birthday
(February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968)

Monterey Herald, February 27, 1978

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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.


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{ Offer Expired }

A brand new history of
Cannery Row and the Pacific Northwest...

Cover actual size is 8.5" x 11"

foil cover 4.0

• 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.
Includes a free authentic 1940s sardine label as a bookmark.
Click Here for PayPal Payment Page * More purchase options below.


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Speaking Engagements, News, and Events


AUGUST 1 - 2
2020

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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

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Cascade Club of Tacoma luncheon at the Tacoma Country Club, Lakeview.
"New Horizon for Pacific Northwest History" and Tacoma's role.
Feb. 20
2020

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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
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Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs Forum, at the Cottesmore, 2909 14th Avenue NW, Gig Harbor.
Jan. 26
2020
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Review:
HOOD CANAL'S NEW HISTORY at the Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club, Union, WA. Open to the Public. Mason County Historical Society Lecture.

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MCHS Newsletter event review.
Jan. 8
2020
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"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
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"The New History of the Pacific Northwest" at the Weatherly Inn, Highlands Parkway, Tacoma. 1:30 – 3:00 PM. Tacoma Historical Society Lecture Series.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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"
new
• 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,

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• The Spanish fish-packing history of what became Ed Ricketts' Lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories (by Robin Aeschliman)

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• 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.



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

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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
development
 of his
pioneering vision and introduction of
today's ECOLOGY.



"But There's More!"

Included is original research on
the Western Flyer,
built in 1937 by Western Boat Building on
Tacoma Washington's waterfront and the rise of
this vessel to world-fame for her role in the 1940 voyage
to Mexico's Gulf of California, and the co-authored
 

"Sea of Cortez
A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research"

Sea of
                                                          Cortez

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



"As well as..."

The little known inter-relationship of the largely Croatian
Pacific Northwest fishing boat industry's production of
customized purse-seine fishing boats for Monterey's
predominantly Sicilian sardine fishing fleet, in a new
appreciation of yet another inter-cultural dimension
connecting Monterey-Cannery Row with the historic
Pacific Northwest.


Look for Cannery Row's familiar red history book
full of outstanding archival photographs from the
Pat Hathaway Collection in the expanded Fourth Edition
— easily identified by its new silver accented red cover.


A look at some pages in CR 4.0

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John & Ed
part 2
Hoodsport
Western Flyer

With restored and enhanced archival photography from the Pat Hathaway Collection

"There is no other book like this"

Nowhere else is this on-going research and that of colleagues available
and integrated with the shared history, literature, maritime, and
ecological legacies of Monterey-Cannery Row and the
historic Pacific Northwest: a whole new tide pool!

   

Available direct from The History Company
 
(Tax, Media Mail, shipping & handling included!)

$29.95
By check to The History Company
P.O. Box 31, Wauna, WA 98395

Priority Mail shipping & handling included!)

or


PayPal logo
secure PayPal credit card payment
click here for the PayPal Payment Page


or
In stock at Amazon.com


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!

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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


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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

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

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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.


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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"


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



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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

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.



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February 15th, 2019


UPCOMING PACIFIC NORTHWEST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
by Michael Kenneth Hemp:


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"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.



AND


February 21st, 2019

The Tacoma Yacht Club
5401 Yacht Club Road, Tacoma, WA

Open free for the pubic to attend

Thursday, February 21st, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Click Here for information.


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                                                          Aerial
              Tacoma Yacht Club photo



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News from the Waterfront!

HISTORIC TACOMA WATERFRONT
Working Group is being formed.

An ad hoc group of historians, archivists, heritage organizations,
community groups, and historically invested businesses are joining
together to assure the identification, and where possible, preservation
of the histroic character and critical remaining Tacoma maritime and
industrial waterfront sites as a vibrant heritage destination for South Sound
locals and the regional, national, and international travel industry.

On February 30th, 2019, this effort took its first step at the Foss Waterway
Seaport at an inaugural meeting in the Foss Waterway Seaport's Boat Shop
of a notable collection of Tacoma's dedicated historical
and cultural enthtusiasts,
and heritage destination commercial leaders.

Attending (left to right): Brendan Balaam, Michael Sullivan, Allen Petrich, Andy Kuljis,
Ron Karabaich, Bill Baarsma, Lowell Anderson, Dale Wirsing, Michael Hemp,
 Norman Gollub, Mike Leach, Clare Petrich,
Kathleen Brooker (obscured);
photo by Wesley Wenhardt.


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Parties interested in joining this odyssey please contact
 Michael Hemp (The History Company) at (831) 236-2990
or mkhemp@thehistorycompany.com.

Please see "New Horizons in Pacific Northwest History (below)
for a Prospectus.


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Meeting facility courtesy of Foss Watwerway Seaport



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BBC on Cannery Row

This
1987 BBC on Cannery Row features:
Steven Webster, Monterey Bay Aquarium,
Susan Shillinglaw, Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose Sate University,

Cannery Row historian, Michael Kenneth Hemp,
Frank Wright, Cannery Row Foundation and friend of Ed Ricketts,
and Katie Rodger, Ed Ricketts biographer, U.C. Davis.

 
This 1987 BBC report from Cannery Row by Howard Stableford
paints an excellent sketch of pioneer marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts,
John Steinbeck's closest friend and mentor—and six major figures
in Steinbeck fiction...

Click Here for The BBC on Cannery Row (27 minutes)



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"NEW HORIZONS FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST HISTORY"

A Prospectus with new historical research that augments
Pacific Northwest history in a number of significant ways.

• Pacific Northwest
sites of ecological research by Edward F. Ricketts
• The new role of John Steinbeck in Pacific Northwest history
• Pacific Northwest Croatian boat-building and Monterey's Sicilian fleet

• The Steinbeck-Ricketts "Sea of Cortez" and Western Flyer legacies
 • Historic Tacoma Waterfront Path of History & Birthplace of the Western Flyer
• Tacoma, Foss Waterway Seaport, and the Western Flyer's navigational artifacts


Click here for a Prospectus .pdf

An archival photographic PowerPoint presentation is available for presentation for
 historical organizations, educational institutions, civic clubs and fraternal chapters.

Simply contact Michael Kenneth Hemp
for details or to book a presentation.




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Many thanks to the attendees at the Shelton, WA premier of the
"New Horizons for Pacific Northwest History" project
at the Mason County Historical Society and Museum
and the exciting advances in our research enabled by the
Shelton-Hood Canal community's living memory and historical
knowledge of the 1930s in and around the Hood Canal.

Special thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Stan Graham, and
Museum researcher, Shirley Erhart, for crucial contributions
emerging from this premier presentation at Shelton
to the on-going research base for this ambitious project.

Hood Canal research underway on the "Horizons" project is now firmly
established and a new level of networking and referral of research leads
and contacts have significantly materialized to advance and refine research.

"Thank You" to Shelton's Mason County Historical Society and Museum
and its members for contributing a significance advance in our research.

                                                                        —Michael Kenneth Hemp


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On Saturday, September 29th, 2018 • The History Company, in association with the
Mason County Historical Society Museum in Shelton, Washington, presents:



“New Horizons for Pacific Northwest History”—A New Role in Ecology


An archival PowerPoint lecture by historian Michael Kenneth Hemp

Announcing Hood Canal’s role in a new horizon of Pacific Northwest pride

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Edward F. Ricketts at Port Townsend, Washington, June 1930. Jack Calvin photo, co-author of “Between Pacific Tides” (Pat Hathaway Collection)

 

In June 1930, Monterey marine biologist Ed Ricketts was photographed in the kelp bed at Port Townsend, Washington, by Jack Calvin–his co-author of “Between Pacific Tides” (1939). That photograph only recently opened the door to the realization that this revolutionary naturalist that brought Ecology into mainstream awareness had traveled extensively throughout the shoreline Pacific Northwest in the 1930s researching and developing that essential concept. Come learn where, why, and how the Pacific Northwest came to have a major role in Ecology.

 

WHERE:              Shelton’s Mason County Historical Society Museum 

                            427 W. Railroad Avenue, Shelton WA 98584 • Phone (360) 426-1020 For info.


ADMISSION:       FREE

 

WHEN:                2:00 PM, Saturday, September 29th, 2018. Followed with a book signing and a                                                             community research round table to help collect data for historical designations.

                       

WHO:                  Michael Kenneth Hemp • Cannery Row, Monterey’s historian has relocated to Gig Harbor to                                   research and memorialize this new horizon in Pacific Northwest history. More background at
   

                            www.TheHistoryCompany.com (831) 236-2990.


For more information click here for "CONJUNCTION"



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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The History Company is extremely honored to represent two exclusive world-class historical
artifact affiliation and ownership opportunities with origins involving major Cannery Row historical
figures and events: one as naming donor for the acquisition of the Fry Collection of Western Flyer
Navigational Artifacts
(from the 1940 voyage to the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts)
for preservation and permanent public exhibition—in posterity—at either Monterey, California,"Home Port"
of the world-famous Western Flyer, or at the Foss Waterway Seaport on Tacoma, Washington's
historic waterfront—birthplace of the Western Flyer at Western Boat Building Company in May 1937.


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Please call or e-mail for detailed provenance and professional maritime appraisal.
Auction reserve (if it reaches auction): $68,704.00. Put your name on this perpetual exhibit now,

 at the Western Flyer's home port of Monterey, or her birthplace on the Foss Waterway Seaport
in Tacoma, Washington.

Enshrine your name, family, organization, educational institution, or business
in Posterity by becoming the Naming Donor for the perpetual preservation and exhibition of these
priceless navigational artifacts of the world-famous Western Flyer.

Exclusive Representative: Michael Kenneth Hemp
The History Company
(831) 236-2990
mkhemp@thehistorycompany.com


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This item has been auctioned and is no longer available.

Also on offer
 is an immeasurable personal opportunity to possess one of the most iconic Old Cannery Row
artifacts ever available for personal acquisition: the "Desk that Helped Make Cannery Row Famous"
—the
(two-sided facing) partners desk of Knut Hovden, the "King of Cannery Row." It was the
Norwegian-born Hovden, who with fisheries experience from Norway and an inventor's talent that
solved many of the mechanical impediments of the smooth flow of fish through the canning process in
 Monterey's burgeoning industry of catching and canning one of the world's major natural resources...
sardines!
From before World War I, Hovden led the rise of Monterey to become the "Sardine Capital of the World"
in decades of astute, innovative, and profitable business investment and profit. It was from the desk on offer
that Knut Hovden ruled the last decades of Ocean View Avenue (Monterey's "Cannery Row") as its King.
It is at this
same desk that the New Kings of Cannery Row—Ted Balestreri and Bert Cutino—helped propel
fine dining into the American consciousness when opening the world-famous Sardine Factory Restaurant
on John Steinbeck's Cannery Row in 1968.  In 1972 Clint Eastwood filmed scenes from the
Sardine Factory in  his iconic "Play Misty For Me"...


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Click here for a 3-D view of this magnificent piece of history and art.
Offered at $15,000.00  •  Serious Inquiries Only, Please.

Call or e-mail for additional information and for contact with the owner of this
exclusive, functional, spectacular piece of the History of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row.


Owner's Representative: Michael Kenneth Hemp
The History Company
(831) 236-2990
mkhemp@thehistorycompany.com



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Michael Kenneth Hemp's next pubic Speaking Engagement 
will be presented 
on May 17th • 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the

Harbor History Museum

Followed by "Meet The Author" & Book Signing at

4121 Harbor View Drive • Gig Harbor, Washington

Information call: (253) 858-6722  •  
marketing@harborhistorymuseum.org

Harbor History
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Followed by "Meet The Author" & Book Signing for CR 3.2

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Information at www.harborhistorymuseum.org • (253) 858-6722



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3/3/18

Michael Kenneth Hemp made his his Pacific Northwest "Conjunction" lecture premier
at Tacoma Washington's
spectacular waterfront Foss Waterway Seaport Maritime Museum
on Saturday, March 3, 2018.

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CONJUNCTION:
Cannery Row and the Pacific Northwest

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Cannery Row, the historic Pacific Northwest, Steinbeck & Ricketts,
the Sea of Cortez, and the saga of
the Western Flyer.


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The History Company announces
Major New Pacific Northwest Connections
presented by historian Michael Kenneth Hemp
coming to venues near you.



"CONJUNCTION"

Drawing together Cannery Row, Monterey, Puget Sound, the Pacific Northwest expeditions of Ed Ricketts,
John Steinbeck through his charter of the Tacoma-built Western Flyer to the Sea of Cortez
with Ed Ricketts in 1940, the saga of the rescue of the Western Flyer, her
restoration
by Washington's Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op, and her ultimate mission as
a voyaging classroom for inspiring youth into the marine sciences.

And: cultural travel and tourism between John Steinbeck's California
(and the rest of the world) to the Pacific Northwest to take it all in.

Open to the Public free with paid Museum admission.
Become a Member now: Foss Waterway Seaport will be the major
base of operations for this history-making project. Be part of it.
Foss Waterway Seaport Maritime Museum:
membership@fosswaterwayseaport.org


* * *

A message from Michael Hemp
I regret to inform you of the passing of two important friends with roots in Cannery Row.


IN MEMORIAM

It is with great regret we inform you that Ed Ricketts, Jr. – son of Edward F. Ricketts –passed away
 on December 2nd, 2017. 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.canneryrow.org.
                                                                                                                                                       –MK Hemp


Hemp w Ed Jr.
                                               Andy Case photo
Kohrs and EFR cards
                                                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 that destroyed
Ricketts' lab on Cannery Row–obtained through the Cannery Row Foundation
by historian Michael Hemp. Who knew exactly were to have them evaluated.



* * *

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 be 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


Andy Case driving
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Japan arrivals
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.


* * *
 

The History Company previewed its new "CONJUNCTION" message on a speaking tour – October 15th
to 27th, 2017 – to the historic Monterey Peninsula, California: Moss Landing, Monterey, Cannery Row,

Carmel,
and Pebble Beach. The trip included presentations at the Cannery Row Foundation's
exclusive tours of Pacific Biological Laboratories (the Doc's lab of John Steinbeck's
world-famous 1945 "Cannery Row") on Saturday, October 18th, 2017.

The CONJUNCTION is getting started. Keep an eye on where it goes from here.
Look for The History Company's Michael Kenneth Hemp in the coming months at the
Foss Seaport Waterway Maritime Museum – the pride of Tacoma's historic waterfront.



The History Company is now relocated in
Gig Harbor, Washington...
                                                   
...to research, record, and establish

"CONJUNCTION:

The Emerging Connection of Cannery Row,
the historic Pacific Northwest,
John Steinbeck & Ed Ricketts,
the Sea of Cortez,
and the Saga of the Western Flyer"

...opening up a vast, exciting new relationship between
the Pacific Northwest and Monterey's Cannery Row:
the last frontier of research of a shared but little known
historic, maritime, literary and ecological legacy.

Since 1983, The History Company has been a major source
of historical research on author John Steinbeck's
world-famous
"Cannery Row" literature
and the ecological fame of
America's pioneering marine biologist, Ed Ricketts.

Historian Michael Kenneth Hemp now turns his focus to
Pacific Northwest historical research, exploration,
and celebration of the emerging discoveries that
connect us in many unexpected and meaningful ways.

The History Company is eager to share this new era
of West Coast history, literature, ecology, and travel
in Speaking Engagements and at Special Events
from the Pacific Northwest to the Sea of Cortez.

Click here for a printable pdf.

For presentation information and available speaking engagement dates,
please contact The History Company at:
mkhemp@thehistorycompany.com

or call: (831) 236-2990

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U/C
Construction is underway on the relocation
of The History Company to the Pacific Northwest.

Thank you for your patience.



October 2016

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See you there!


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More

new
From the Archives

The "La Esperanza Packing Company"
Today known as Pacific Biological Laboratories!
A crucial historical research project
by
Robin Rodriguez Aeschliman (2015)

Click Here
 


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 From the Archives

Pacific Biological Laboratories —"Doc's Lab"—tour video
by Wayne Marien (Victory Video •  victoryvid@yahoo.com) January 31, 2012 celebrating
Kalisa Moore, "Queen of Cannery Row"

for the Cannery Row Foundation featuring
Cannery Row Historian Michael Hemp and
friend of Ed Ricketts and Lab owner Frank Wright on

YouTube


* * *


Be sure to check out the individual video segments of the
CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM 2016
being uploaded continuously as edited by Wave Street Studios on You Tube
on themes and topics on the cutting edge of Cannery Row historical research:

Dennis Fry, skipper of the Western Flyer 1976,
Homer Alaska. [Re-named Gemini in 1970]

John Greg, marine geologist who rescued and is restoring the Western Flyer as a sea-going classroom for kids

Don Kohrs, Librarian, Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station
Miller Library
("The hottest Ed Ricketts researcher on the planet!" —quote: M.K. Hemp)

(7 more segments on YouTube to come)


* * *


Thanks to all who made the Ed Ricketts Early Birthday LAB TOURS
May 7th, another magical day in Pacific Biological Laboratories!

PBL
                                                          Sunny



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From the Archives:

Raw edit video of the Cannery Row Foundation's "Great Cannery Row Reunion
(all 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

U/C

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Cannery Row, Steinbeck, Ricketts, and Western Flyer Fans:
Take a look at the website for the restoration of the Western Flyer:

www.WesternFlyer.org



* * *


Thanks to all you

"Ed Heads"
that made the last Cannery Row Foundation Lab Tours of 2015
another great success. Next scheduled tour will be for
the Cannery Row Foundation's annual John Steinbeck's Birthday
scheduled for Saturday, February 27, 2016.

Make your reservations at: tours@canneryrow.org.



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Stand By for News and Photos of the Western Flyer at the Wooden Boat Festival at Port Townsend, Washington September 11-13, 2015.
"The World's Largest Wooden Boat Festival"
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A Look at The CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM 2015's Program
(which introduced the Western Flyer story to the public)
A production for the Cannery Row Foundation by The History Company

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• Betty Astro and Michael Hemp with rockstar Steinbeck & Ricketts scholar, Richard Astro
Prof. Astro was also Keynote Speaker at the formation event of the Cannery Row Foundation,
The GREAT CANNERY ROW REUNION, May 13-15 1983!

Betty
                                                          Astro, MKH,
                                                          Richard Astro

                                                                                                                                                                     Pat Hathaway photo

• CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM Presenter, Historian & CRF Board Member, Bob Enea
introducing John Gregg (Left) owner of the Western Flyer, and (right) his brother & Project Director, Andy Gregg.

Greggs intro by
                                                    Enea
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Video segments of the historic CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM's exceptional presentations will be
produced and shared as sponsorships for the event's video segment production costs for are obtained.

For information or to make a segment production donation, contact Michael Hemp at mkhemp@canneryrow.org

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June 2015
The Western Flyer is now indoors at the
Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op
Port Townsend, Washington

Photos courtesy Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op

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The Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op will be home for the Western Flyer during restoration for the next 18 months or so.


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The first video segment produced from the February 21, 2015
Cannery Row Foundation

CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM
at Stanford's historic Hopkins Marine Station
MONTEREY BOAT WORKS Auditorium
• A production of The History Company
• Video post-production by
Your Sanctuary TV, Monterey

This is the Surprise Official Announcement of the
purchase and restoration of the endangered historic
Western Flyer from John Steinbeck & Ed Ricketts'
1940 voyage to
Baja California's Sea of Cortez.

Michael Hemp, President of the Cannery Row Foundation,
introduces historian Bob Enea who in turn announces
John and Andy Gregg, new owners of the historic Western Flyer


Now on YouTube...pass it along!


Western Flyer tacoma
At her 1937 Tacoma launch at Western Boat Builders
More to come...

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Thanks to all who joined us on
Saturday, May 16th for this year's
annual Cannery Row Foundation
ED RICKETTS BIRTHDAY LAB TOURS
celebrating the voyage to the
SEA OF CORTEZ at 75!

 
The whole story is in both the original 1941 "SEA OF CORTEZ" co-authored
with Edward F. Ricketts...re-issued by Viking in 1951 without its
scientific half as the "Log From the Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck.


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Log
 Co-authored 1941 publication
1951 "Log" by John Steinbeck

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May 7th:
 Kevin Bailey presented his new book

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                                                          book

at the National Steinbeck Center • One Main Street, Oldtown Salinas.
He drew upon 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: the Western Flyer.

Steinbeck.org


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YouTube video of the Western Flyer
At Port Townsend, Washington boat yard
awaiting restoration by Southern California
marine geologist, John Gregg.


Click here for Western Flyer News



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Thank you, Cannery Row fans!

Another great John Steinbeck's Birthday
Tours of

Pacific Biological Laboratories
Saturday, February 28th, 2015

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NEXT ED RICKETTS' LAB TOURS
SATURDAY, May 16TH, 2015



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Just In!
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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.

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THE CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION
In Association with THE HISTORY COMPANY

Presented a

CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM 2015
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, and ecological presentations:

 MORNING SESSION: 9AM

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, Ms. Eva Lothar (
Classic 1972 Documentary film, "Street of the Sardine")


INTERMISSION FOR LUNCH & PRESS CONFERENCE

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: 1 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 Statue University
("Layered Fiction and Deep Ecology: John, Ed, Carol and The Grapes of Wrath")


AFTER THE HOPKINS PROGRAM: 6 PM
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


Full Details at www.CanneryRow.org


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See Michael Hemp's entry in
STEINBECK
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Calling Dr. Freud? Letter Explains
John Steinbeck’s Short Story “The Snake”

With an addendum: an important paper
by Steven Federle, San Jose State 1977
from Steinbeck's journal in which he wrote
the short story and comments as to its origins
and development—which did not make the
STEINBECK NOW edit—but are a very
important contribution to the new understanding
of Steinbeck's "THE SNAKE."



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CANNERY ROW PHOTO POST
Random images weekly of Cannery Row past...

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Thanks to all who made this event such a great success!

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An Informal Bio for those interested in "Photography & Friends"
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At about age ten, in Albany, NY, I bought a camera for about two bucks at the drugstore.  It came with a roll of film.  Very soon came the problem of what to do then.  A friend showed me how to develop film and make contact (same size) prints and my dad helped to make a closet darkroom.  He dipped a small light bulb in red paint to make a safelight. I was a shy dorky kid and the camera became a passport of sorts. A saintly maiden aunt whom we visited annually let me play with her fine German Rolliecord camera, a twin lens reflex with a ground glass screen.  I became hooked on the pictures that could be framed on it's screen.  In late teens I inherited that camera and continued to work at it. 
 
During the late fifties I was a Cold Warrior in Germany and fell in with a German photographer who became my mentor.  Germany was still the out-front leader in technical photography in those days and when I got back to the states in 1961 I realized that I had quite a leg up when it came to small camera work.  While at the Language School in 1958, I'd met Frank Wright and David Walton and after the Air Force I came back to help David open what was to become The Palace.

I launched myself as a photographer a few years later, at first shooting overflow weddings for Steve Crouch and working out of home in Monte Vista with wife Myrna and family.  In about 1963  I took one room upstairs in the Bear Flag Building for a lab.   I was between a one-man fm radio station and Jay Chapin, the taylor.  In about 1965 I opened gallery and lab space on the street across from Neil DeVaughn's restaurant and in 1967 or thereabouts I took 3000 sq feet, roughly one quarter of the building, on the second floor of the Monterey Canning Company as lab-gallery-living space. The rent was $75.00 a month. No water, electricity or heat.  As the Row blossomed with refugees from Haight/Ashbury, that became the place that we all remember with such nostalgia.  Soon after I left in 1970, the building itself sold for a million bucks and the flowering of the row was over. 

That  few year's was also the period when I peaked as a photographer.   One the one hand, automatic photography was coming on strong and, on the Row, it just wasn't as much fun after the wildly painted school busses pulled out, the hippy cafes closed and the last of the squatters were rousted from under The Wave Street Hilton. 

During, roughly, a decade of high activity as a photographer, my work was about evenly divided between small camera portraiture in the Monterey area and in journalistic-style illustrations for corporate publications and advertising.  The best of the portrait work was done for love - though lots of it was commissioned - but the corporate work kept the pot boiling and some of that was pretty good, too.  I guess that I managed to get a pretty fair sample of the artists and writers of that time and place but there were many whom I missed.  Seeing ones work on Barbie doll boxes counts in a different way.

When it was all over, no one was more surprised than I to find that my whole passion for photography had just faded away as well.  I bounced around for a year or two and then, on the very last gasp of my G.I. Bill,  went to graduate school in Portland and into psychology as therapist, later as evaluator in the criminal courts, and still later as a builder of cruising houseboats.  For nearly all of the next twenty years I lived on boats in Olympia. 

Wendy and I made our first trip to Alaska in 1995 and were smitten from the first.  We swapped the first old wooden sailboat for a larger old wooden sailboat and came back in 1997 to be caretakers of a remote fishing lodge.  In 2000 we swapped the big old wooden sailboat for an even bigger old wooden power boat and came up to Tenakee Springs.  Tenakee is a very old coastal community of less than 100 people: no road, no cars, no cell phone - though we did get slow inter-net a few years ago.  I build and mess about with small boats and I write articles about life in the bush for the Capitol City Weekly in Juneau.

So, there.
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Coming Soon: a look at the event.


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 The Saddest and Latest news on the "Western Flyer"
(January 14, 2014) and much more by scrolling down below...

* * *

Update on The Western Flyer
Peninsula Daily News (Washington)
Courtesty Herb Behrens, December 2, 2013


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The Latest News on the Western Flyer:

Monterey County Herald, October 10, 2013



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On behalf of the Cannery Row Foundation, we wish to thank
those visitors to Ed Rickett's Pacific Biological Laboratory on October 26th.

It was the last of scheduled Doc's Lab Tours for 2013.

We  hope to see you in January for our first tours of 2014,
celebrating Kalisa Moore (1926-2009) "The Queen of Cannery Row."
Get on our mailing list—if you're not already—so The History Company can alert you
to the opening of reservations for the Cannery Row Foundation's first Lab Tours of 2014!
e-mail us at tours@canneryrow.org to join the data base.


Ed Rickett's Lab • Pacific Biological Laboratories
Lab
                                                          sunny (Hemp)

800 Cannery Row, Monterey CA




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Thanks for a great night in Aptos!
Aptos History Musuem
Pajaro Valley Historical Association
Aptos Grange

It was FABULOUS!
Aptos
                                                          flyer

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A Musuem of Monterey
"100 Stories" Interview (YouTube)
"CANNERY ROW"

by historian Michael K. Hemp


* * *


NEWEST OF NEWS ON THE
"WESTERN FLYER"
From the Monterey County Herald. October 10, 2013


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Course in progress!


The History Company, in association with
Osher Institute at California State University Monterey Bay,
presents a three-class course by adjunct lecturer Michael Kenneth Hemp:

 
"CANNERY ROW,
Sardine Capital of the World"
Tuesdays 10 AM to 12 PM
September 26 • October 1 • October 8

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Click here for course information.



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WESTERN FLYER: MONTEREY COUNTY HERALD
OPINION PAGE, August 4, 2013...



By Allen Petrich, the grandson of the builder of the Western Flyer
at Western Boat Building Company in the City Waterway
(Now the Foss Waterway), on the Tacoma's waterfront, 1937.


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                                                          HERALD 080413


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A slim but great new image book by photography teacher, Mark Narciso.

(click on image to enlarge)

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Contact Mark Narciso at mnarciso@comcast.net for info or purchase.


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The latest on the Western Flyer
July 15, 2013
from the Monterey County Herald.

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The Western Flyer is about to be destroyed
for it's deckhouse as a gawker-attraction
for a Salinas inn & restaurant.

Here's one of the last photos of her in one piece
before her execution at a Port Townsend boatyard

by Anne Shaffer of the Coastal Watershed Institute:

WF in yard

Gemini / Western Flyer at Boat Haven yard at Port Townsend, WA
2013                                                                                                      Anne Shaffer Photo/Coastal Watershed Institute


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{FROM THE ARCHIVE}

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"WESTERN FLYER" UP AGAIN!

WF up
                                                          again
                                                                                                                                                                            Art Kendall photo  
                           
The Western Flyer as of June 24, 2013.



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Los Angeles Times • February 18, 2013
by Steve Chawkins

A dispute over the boat from "Sea of Cortez"

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SALINAS CALIFORNIAN EDITORIAL
January 27, 2013:

Our View: The Western Flyer belongs in the public domain



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Thanks to all of you who attended the
Doc's Lab Tours, Saturday, January 26th
honor Kalisa Moore—the "Queen of Cannery Row"
Here's a Kalisa story from the Weekly, February 18, 2001.

Herald on
                                                          Kalisa


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THE WESTERN FLYER
SINKS AGAIN IN ANACORTES'
SWINOMISH CHANNEL, WASHINGTON

Capt. Richard Rodriquez photo, http://bitterendblog.com/

Western
                                                          Flyer sinks
                                                          again

Reported sunk overnight, January 13, 2013.


Stay Tuned.
(Register above for E-mail reports if you're not already on our contact list)

Scroll down for earlier Western Flyer preservation news



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More Ed Ricketts Lab and Frank Wright
from Carmel Magazine's Holiday 2012 Issue:


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  Feature by Michael Chatfield • Photos by Kelli Uldall • www.carmelmagazine.com


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And "Lucky" – a poem by Mary Cunningham about Frank and Ed:

  Lucky

There was no luck involved
Being drafted into the army
World War II in full swing

But what luck to find
Three days into it
Someone knows someone
That you need to meet

The front gates were guarded
Guns at the ready
But the three back gates
Had none

So off they went
Down to the smelly canneries
To find a gem nestled between
Factories and rocky shore

Bugermeister for 35 cents
And a bag of potato chips
Was all it took
To start a life-long friendship

Hungry minds coming together
Leaving their varied pedigrees at the door
To absorb all they possibly could
In conversation and stories
As classical music filled the spaces
Between their words

As the war continued on
the canneries blew their incessant whistles
while an author recited his embellished stories,
specimens were brought in to be sent out again
in boxes

at every chance, they all soaked it in
smells, tastes, sounds , sights and feelings
knowing these precious moments
were all the luck they needed.


-Mary Cunningham-Welsh
Feb. 27, 2012




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Ed Ricketts' Lab and Frank Wright from
SFGate of the San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, November 30th.

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(Formerly a) HOT TIP:
Look for the San Francisco Chronicle coverage of
Ed Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories
Sunday, December 2, 2012.

Featuring Carmel's own Frank Wright, who knew Ed Ricketts during WWII
at the Presidio of Monterey (1942-1944) and later became a member of
the private men's club that bought the lab in 1958 as their clubhouse—
and sold it to he City of Monterey in 1993 to keep it in public hands.

Feature by Meredith May. Photography by Jason Henry.

Photos of photo shoot by Michael Hemp

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{this fabulous app is now discontinued}

Recent CARMEL and CARMEL VALLEY (& Big Sur) App Review in at iTunes:

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Sinking and Raising of the "Sea of Cortez" Vessel
Photos by
Capt. Richard Rodriguez • 10/09/12

The Western Flyer is up!

Western
                                                          Flyer up

Western
                                                          Flyer angle


(Earlier News)
The sunken Western Flyer in the Swinomish Channel
under the Anacortes Bridge, Washington.


Photo by Capt. Richard Rodriguez • Bitterend Blog

SUNKEN
                                                          FLYER

(Initial News)
The Western Flyer sank at Anacortes, Washington,
on September 24th, 2012.


Western
                                                          Flyer
Western flyer at mooring • August/September 2012
                                                       — Kevin Bailey photo

Click Here for Details



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[These fabulous apps are now discontinued]

Both of these 5-star travel apps are no longer availabe due to the
failure of Apple-iTunes and Android platforms interface Sutro Media.





Both of The History Company's 5-star Travel Apps are no longer available
due to failure and closure of Sutro Media, San Francisco, app portal for
thousands of high-quality travel apps available through Apple's Apps Store and
Google Play for Android devices.


Heartbreaking, and a two year loss of time, dedication, and talent.
Ask anyone who had them what they thought of these two:

CANNERY ROW (& Waterfront) Downloads

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From the Archive:
Cannery Row Fire Muster
(Brooke Elgie photo from The History Company Collection)
— Date being researched —

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CANNERY ROW AND THE LAB

A report by Howard Stableford of the BBC, featuring
Dr. Steve Webster (Monterey Bay Aquarium), Dr. Susan Shillnglaw
(then Director of the Center For Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University),
Katie Rodger (Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, Ed Ricketts bigrapher)
Michael Kenneth Hemp (Cannery Row Foundation; historian), and
Frank Wright (Lab Group member and friend of Ed Ricketts).
28 minutes of highly recommended listening before you attend the



PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL LAB TOURS
in honor of Edward F. ("Doc") Ricketts (1897-1948)
on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014.

Cannery Row Foundation (established in the lab in 1983)

Join our Reservations Contact List for future tours at tours@canneryrow.org

Sunny
                                                          Lab




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Sad News:
"Doc's" Lab Men's Club member
Morgan Stock passed away August 28th, 2012,
leaving only three members. He was 93.


Morgan
                                                          Stock

Click here for his interview with Michael Hemp on the
Wave Street Authors Show
January, 2009


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Museum of Monterey interview for its
100 Stories Project:
Michael Hemp and the making of
"SUR, Legend of The Last Otter Hunter"
(YouTube)





Premiering at Amazon Kindle!
A new novel by Michael
Kenneth Hemp

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By 1906, the Western frontier has almost completely disappeared and wanted gunmen are a dead or hunted breed. An aging outlaw on the run from his violent past seeks sanctuary in Big Sur, a “Refuge for Settlers and Outlaws” on California’s wild central coast and is forced by fate to become the “last of the otter hunters”—only to be challenged by violence and hardship to a destiny as the only man able to save them from extinction by his own kind.

At Amazon Kindle ($4.95)

Don't have a Kindle?
You can save your purchase in the Amazon Cloud Reader
and download it to any device (like iPad), including your PC.

ANOTHER REVIEW IN! Another 5-Star!
More by clicking HERE.


Review by Monterey County Weekly:

BEYOND STEINBECK
The Last Otter Hunter tells the story Cannery Row’s definitive historian always wanted to.
By David Schmalz
Monterey County Weekly • Thursday, September 15, 2011

     When Michael Kenneth Hemp moved to Monterey in 1979, it is tempting to imagine that Doc Ricketts and John Steinbeck breathed a sigh of relief from on high. Over the next decade, the author established himself as the preeminent historian of the Cannery Row era, and nearly all of what he has recorded (much of which can be considered a local, and national, treasure) would have been lost forever without his efforts.
     A writer by trade, Hemp’s interest in the piece of shoreline was piqued while researching a dining guide. To his surprise, he found that no major books existed about Cannery Row history outside of Steinbeck’s namesake novel.
     “I stepped into one of the last opportunities like this in the world,” Hemp says.

The complete review:
REVIEW BY
David Schwarz

MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY
September 15th, 2011
Review Text


Click here for more on literary works
by Michael Kenneth Hemp.


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Unfortunately, our two Amazon 5-star travel apps are
no longer available. The closure of Sutro Media,
our technical
processing and interface with
iTunes and Google Play ceased business.


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The CARMEL and CARMEL VALLEY
Travel App by The History Company
is available for iPhones and iPads at the iTunes App Store,
and for Google/Android smartphones and tablets at Google Play.

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Launched with an immediate 5-star iTunes App Store rating!
Click "View on iTunes" button under icon for ratings.

  New user comments in:

• FINALLY!!!

Having returned to the peninsula and areas around it I kept searching for resources to fill the historical gap.
Thankfully Mr. Hemp has come to the rescue and you have answers to questions heretofore only known locally.
At a glance you'll have access to photos, facts, routes, roads, driving speeds, literature and trivia
all gleaned by Mr. Hemp himself. Enjoy!
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Michael Hemp has created an absolute treasure! ” - 08/19/2011

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• Katy's Place - “I don't leave many comments so when I say great food and friendly staff believe it.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE

This mobile phone app, profusely illustrated with archival photography
from the Pat Hathaway Collection and extensive experience
as Director of Marketing, Communications, and Special Events for the
Cannery Row Company (Cannery Row's major landlord), was unexpectedly
discontinued due to the
dissolution of Sutro Media of San Francisco – the
technical
interface with Apple and Android mobile app platforms
for this and hundreds of other top-tier travel apps.
  
It was an Apple 5-star!

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Our 5-star app on

John Steinbeck's Cannery Row
from The History Company
Expanded to include the entire Monterey Waterfront!

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(Click on icon to go to iTunes App Store)

 SORRY: NO LONGER AVAILABLE DUE TO CLOSURE OF SUTRO MEDIA,
OUR iTUNES AND GOOGLE PLAY/ANDROID INTERFACE.


Incomparable while it lasted...

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There is a new expanded 5th Edition available
published in 2022.


FROM THE ARCHIVE

This, of course, survives:

But now in a new Fourth Edition, July 2019.


CR3
Third Edition, First  through 4th Printings


CANNERY ROW, THE HISTORY OF JOHN STEINBECK'S OLD OCEAN  VIEW AVENUE
has been reviewed in the prestigious STEINBECK REVIEW!

Click here for the review.

Click here for print version.
(please allow time to load)


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A Michael Hemp video interview about Edward F. Ricketts
and Pacific Biological laboratories
for the Museum of Monterey "100 Story Project"


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Announcing a new book designed by The History Company:

CUBA RISING
An American Insider's Perspective
by
Jonathan Showe
Publication release in January 2010 by Global Insights Press


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                                                          Rising cover


Title, book design, cover design
by Michael K. Hemp

Cover graphic art by R.K. Behrens Design (Carmel)

Now Available on Kindle, Sony eReader, iPad, and other electronic readers!

Click Here for Cuba Rising on YouTube!
Edited and Directed by Michael K. Hemp/The History Company
Video Production by Wave Street Studios

* * *

Click here for the Jonathan Showe internet television interview
on Wave Street Authors Show

by host Michael Hemp—February 23rd, 2010
(Scroll down show list)

* * *

Coverage in the Monterey County Weekly


* * *

Click here for a National Press Release


Available (book or Kindle) on
www.Amazon.com
and
www.Barnes& Noble.com

www.CubaRising.net





 

CANNERY ROW FROM BULGARIA!
An International tale of Ed Ricketts and the Lab:


Cannery Row on the shores of the Black Sea!

"
THE STORIES ARE ALWAYS BETTER"
A Bulgarian Memoir by Dr. Alex Gochev


The Cannery Row Historian Michael Hemp and "Queen of Cannery Row" Kalisa Moore
interview at Wave Street Studio, Cannery Row, Monterey, on April 9, 2009.


"Eastern biophysical"

Gochev with sign

Mounting the hand-painted sign "Eastern Biophysical"
("Western Biological" from Steinbeck's "Cannery Row")
on the shore of the Black Sea, Bulgaria! (1970)


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Memorial to Kalisa Moore
"The Queen of Cannery Row"
(1926-2009)

Kalsia
                                                    Memorial
                                                                            MK Hemp photo

Bronze Sculpture by Jesse Corsaut
Dedicated on Kalisa's birthday, January 31st, 2011.




KALISA
                                                                Kalisa in the Lab in 1997. MK Hemp photo.


More on Kalisa Moore, the "Queen of Cannery Row."


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A new Cannery Row short feature on YouTube
by vacationing British filmmaker, Simon Morris



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KNRY AM 1240 Interview!
Don Bowen interviews Michael Kenneth Hemp
on "Around Town"
(Saturday, August 15th):
about Cannery Row and Bombardier's Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz.

Click to listen (some buffering; clean mp3 to be posted soon)




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Thank you to Ed Ricketts researcher Robbie Behrens
for the digital file of this 1983 recording (in its entirety) of an interview by

Michael Hemp with Joseph Campbell.
(Yes, that Joseph Campbell!)


(Including a visit to Ed Ricketts' Lab,
made possible by PBL member Frank Wright.)


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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Agents & publishers
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From the Archives:


Established the Cannery Row historic tour industry
with lectures and guided walking tours of
Cannery Row and guided tours of Pacific Biological Laboratories
– Ed Ricketts' Lab –
in the early1980s on behalf of the Cannery Row Foundation.




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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________


Live and On-demand internet tv:

(Link-building in progress)
The Wave Street Authors Show
with writer-historian host, Michael K. Hemp,
broadcasting live from Wave Street Studios
on http://livenetworks.tv
774 Wave Street, Cannery Row-Monterey
Free to the public; broadcasts "on-demand"
Call (831) 655-1020 for more information.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________


"Apollo 11 Moon Landing and the
Junior Officers Revolt at
SAC Headquarters"

A memoir of a Moon Landing and the
SNAFU at SAC Headquarters
July 20, 1969.


Tune in! On a short-wave radio or crystal set near you! (www.krmlradio.com streaming audio, actually)
Live every Friday afternoon, 1 - 3 PM, Pacific Time. If you miss the show live, go to
www.BombardiersLounge.com and click on the old radio on the Home Page
for the complete show in MP3 or for download.

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Click on the aircraft for the Bombardiers' Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz intro theme.


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Capt. Mike at the controls
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The Historic
CARMEL VALLEY GUIDE
2004-2005
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Created, designed and published by
The History Company to support the
Carmel Valley business community


 

The Historic GUIDE TO CARMEL VALLEY
(No longer in publication)


 
     The History Company
researched, created,  designed and published the first annual "Historic Carmel Valley Guide" for the Carmel Valley Chamber of Commerce. It follows the same format size and construction as the five annual volumes of the "Cannery Row Visitors Guide" created and published for the Cannery Row Company (1996-2001).
     Conceived as a residents and visitors guide to all of Carmel Valley, history acts as the umbrella theme under which all of the other assets of living in or visiting Carmel Valley are presented and unified.

     Carmel Valley history, from the first Spanish explorers to walk the beaches at Carmel Bay and their return to establish the Alta California Mission system, to the ranches, wineries and landmarks like "Rosie's Cracker Barrel" general store, are presented with stunningly detailed contour maps of Carmel Valley's four regions—from its mountains to the sea.

    


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THE KALISA PROJECT

The Life and Times of the
"Queen of Cannery Row"

The History Company is collecting
stories, photos, memories and more.
Help us by contacting us with your
Kalisa Story—there are fifty years of
them on Cannery Row!

mkhemp@thehistorycompany.com




Kalisa's Cosmopolitan Place, 1958

Kalisa's
                                                          1958                                                                                  Robert Lewis photo

The Closing of Kalisa's La Ida Cafe, 2007



Kalisa with Thom Steinbeck, 1998
National Steinbeck Center

Kalisa
                                                          and Thom
                                                          Steinbeck
                                                          1998
           Art Ring photo



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Pugeet
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                                                          HA


Sardine ivon


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