Their stories are our stories. Meet the strong, asserve, creave women surrounding John Steinbeck — impacng his world, influencing a naon, sll inspiring us today. Join us! 37th Annual Steinbeck Fesval 37th Annual Steinbeck Festival SPEAKERS ACE (Asian Cultural Experience) is based in Salinas, and the group’s mission is to preserve, promote, and enrich the history and multicultural identity of Salinas Chinatown. Richard Astro is Provost Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor at Drexel University. He also served as Provost at the University of Central Florida, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University, and Professor and Chair of English at Oregon State. He is the author of John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist as well as numerous scholarly articles on one or both men. In his spare time, he has served as a consultant on education programs for the Boston Red Sox, the Philadelphia Phillies, and for the past thirteen years, for the New York Mets. Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus are both artists, writers and activists based in San Francisco. They are concerned with examining the rich and shifting landscapes of California history, culture, politics and ecology. Sharon Brown Bacon, Carol Steinbeck’s stepdaughter, worked in the hospitality business for many years, at Stars and Chez Panisse restaurants. She was the PA to Chef Jeremiah Tower for 18 years. She also did human rights works for the Tibetan people, successfully bringing 1000 Tibetans on a one time basis to the USA in the early 1990’s. In 1995 she retired and returned home to Carmel Valley to Carol’s house, which she inherited from her father William B. Brown, Carol’s third husband. She spends her time with friends and enjoys her older years. Rose Marie Beebe is a Professor of Spanish literature at Santa Clara University. Together with her husband, Robert M. Senkewicz, Professor of History at Santa Clara University, they have collaborated on a number of books on the history of Spanish and Mexican California. Their current project is on Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s five- volume “Recuerdos históricos y personales.... ” They are in the process of translating and annotating this very important manuscript. Beebe and Senkewicz have received numerous teaching and scholarship awards at Santa Clara University. Dr. Linda Bynoe, Dr. Jennifer Colby are partners in the “Teaching The Pearl Curriculum Project.” They will be joined by storyteller Graciela Serna-Nutter, actress, producer and stage director. Linda Bynoe is professor emeritus at CSU Monterey Bay. Jennifer Colby is faculty in Liberal Studies at CSU Monterey Bay. In 2010, Jennifer and Linda formed Partners for the Advancement of Teaching in order to bring professional development in multicultural education to teachers. Miguel Lozoya Burciaga is the web and information technology coordinator for Digital NEST in Salinas and Watsonville. Digital NEST is a career development non-profit that focuses on helping Latinos in communities that have been left out—or locked out—of the digital economy to secure a prosperous place in that digital economy. His panel of female leaders will share their experiences with the goal to inspire today’s young females to pursue careers in tech. Friday Tour of 11th St. house and Troer Galleries, “The Arsts of Steinbeck’s World.” On Friday May 4, 9:45-11:45, a rare chance to visit the Steinbeck family’s Pacific Grove coage on 11th St. The Steinbeck family came here frequently throughout John’s childhood, and he lived in the beloved family coage from 1930-1936—again in 1948-49. “The lile Pacific Grove house is many things to me,” he wrote. Troer Galleries features an extensive exhibit focused on Steinbeck’s associaon with arsts and writers of the region.
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Their stories are our stories.Meet the strong, assertive, creative women surrounding John Steinbeck — impacting his world, influencing a nation, still inspiring us today. Join us! 37th Annual Steinbeck Festival
37th Annual Steinbeck Festival SPEAKERS
ACE (Asian Cultural Experience) is based in Salinas, and the group’s mission is to preserve, promote, and enrich the history and multicultural identity of Salinas Chinatown.
Richard Astro is Provost Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor at Drexel University. He also served as Provost at the University of Central Florida, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University, and Professor and Chair of English at Oregon State. He is the author of John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist as well as numerous scholarly articles on
one or both men. In his spare time, he has served as a consultant on education programs for the Boston Red Sox, the Philadelphia Phillies, and for the past thirteen years, for the New York Mets.
Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus are both artists, writers and activists based in San Francisco. They are concerned with examining the rich and shifting landscapes of California history, culture, politics and ecology.
Sharon Brown Bacon, Carol Steinbeck’s stepdaughter, worked in the hospitality business for many years, at Stars and Chez Panisse restaurants. She was the PA to Chef Jeremiah Tower for 18 years. She also did human rights works for the Tibetan people, successfully bringing 1000 Tibetans on a one time basis to the USA in the early 1990’s. In 1995 she
retired and returned home to Carmel Valley to Carol’s house, which she inherited from her father William B. Brown, Carol’s third husband. She spends her time with friends and enjoys her older years.
Rose Marie Beebe is a Professor of Spanish literature at Santa Clara University. Together with her husband, Robert M. Senkewicz, Professor of History at Santa Clara University, they have collaborated on a number of books on the
history of Spanish and Mexican California. Their current project is on Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s five-volume “Recuerdos históricos y personales....” They are in the process of translating and annotating this very important manuscript. Beebe and Senkewicz have received numerous teaching and scholarship awards at Santa Clara University.
Dr. Linda Bynoe, Dr. Jennifer Colby are partners in the “Teaching The Pearl Curriculum Project.” They will be joined by storyteller Graciela Serna-Nutter, actress, producer and stage director. Linda Bynoe is professor emeritus at CSU Monterey Bay. Jennifer Colby is faculty in Liberal Studies at CSU Monterey Bay. In 2010, Jennifer and Linda formed Partners for the Advancement of Teaching in order to bring professional development in multicultural education to teachers.
Miguel Lozoya Burciaga is the web and information technology coordinator for Digital NEST in Salinas and Watsonville. Digital NEST is a career development non-profit that focuses on helping Latinos in communities that have been left out—or locked out—of the digital economy to secure a prosperous place in that digital economy. His panel of
female leaders will share their experiences with the goal to inspire today’s young females to pursue careers in tech.
Friday Tour of 11th St. house and Trotter Galleries, “The Artists of Steinbeck’s World.”
On Friday May 4, 9:45-11:45, a rare chance to visit the Steinbeck family’s Pacific Grove cottage on 11th St. The Steinbeck family came here frequently throughout John’s childhood, and he lived in the beloved family cottage from 1930-1936—again in 1948-49. “The little Pacific Grove house is many things to me,” he wrote.
Trotter Galleries features an extensive exhibit focused on Steinbeck’s association with artists and writers of the region.
John Gregg is a marine geologist, originally inspired by Steinbeck when he read Sea of Cortez at an early age. He has managed a small site investigation company since 1984. The work has taken him from Azerbaijan to Karratha. The quest to secure the Western Flyer has consumed him for many years.
Gavin Jones is originally from England, but fell in love with American literature at an early age. He is the Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. His scholarly interests include the politics of language, the representation of poverty
and social class, and the curious obsession of American writers with personal failure. Jones is currently writing a book about John Steinbeck, and is planning another study of the rise of the short story in American culture. In his spare time he enjoys gardening, playing tennis, and collecting egg cups.
Donald Kohrs is a Branch Library Specialist at the Harold A. Miller Library of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove. Don has degrees in biology and library science. Recently he has been researching local history: Pacific Grove’s Chautauqua Program (1880-1926); Hopkins Seaside
Laboratory (1892-1917) and Marine Station (1918-1950); Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin: The Publishing of Between Pacific Tides (1939); and the Hamilton Family: John Steinbeck Maternal Ancestors.
Eva Lothar Eva Lothar was a young girl growing up in France when she read John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, a novel about what she thought were fictional characters in a fictional place on the other side of the world. In 1964 she moved to Marin and then became fascinated with Cannery Row, eventually filming the area in 1968. Street of the Sardine captures the mood of Cannery Row just as the last sardines and canneries disappeared.
John Mahoney is a volunteer at the National Steinbeck Center who frequently gives tours of Old Town Salinas.
Stuart A. Chase began his leadership role at the Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) in April 2017. Chase brings with him more than thirty years of museum experience, most recently serving as President and CEO of History Miami Museum. Prior to that, Chase served as Executive Director of the
Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield (MA). He also served in leadership roles at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning (NY), the Museum of the Southwest in Midland (TX), the Raynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay (NY), the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (MA), and was CEO of 1Berkshire and 1Berkshire Foundation. Chase completed M.A. coursework in Arts Administration at Long Island University in Brookville (NY), and received a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond (VA).
Dixie Dixon was married to Dorothea Lange’s son, Daniel Dixon, from 1994 until his death in 2009. She is currently a member of fine-art photography group ImageMakers and women’s photography group FotoSága. Dixie has curated several photography exhibits and is a musician with the Steve Mortensen Band.
Brian Duchaney holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Bridgewater State University. He is currently working on his Ph.D. at Boston University’s Editorial Institute. His dissertation is a scholarly edition of John Steinbeck’s World War II dispatches written for the New York Herald Tribune. A ten
year veteran of the U.S. Army, his memoir about his military service, published by the journal War, Literature, & the Arts, was nominated for inclusion in the Best American Essays of 2014. He is also the author of The Spark of Fear, published by McFarland. He currently teaches at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, MA, and at Curry College in Milton, MA.
Mimi Reisel Gladstein is a Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of five books and co-editor of two. A former president of the Steinbeck Society of American, Gladstein’s most recent articles are in Critical Insights: Of Mice and Men. Other scholarly articles cover subjects as diverse as feminism in the Harry Potter
series and bilingual wordplay in Hemingway and Steinbeck.
Saturday Theatre Of Mice and Men, the musical. The Western Stage West Coast Premiere Mainstage Theater, Hartnell College Saturday, May 5, 7:30 PM
A staged reading/sing-through directed by Jon Selover. Adapted in 1958 by Ira Bilowit & Wilson Lehr Based on the play by John Steinbeck Lyrics by Ira Bilowit | Music by Alfred Brooks
Anthony Newfield is originally from Northern California; he received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. His Broadway acting credits include 1984, The Father, The Winslow Boy, The Columnist, The Royal Family, Waiting for Godot, Tartuffe. He has also performed on TV, in films,
Off-Broadway, and in regional theatres from Boston to Miami, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks where he played Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. He has been a frequent participant at the Steinbeck Festival.
Stephen R. Palumbi is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor of Marine Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University. Based at Hopkins Marine Station, Steve has used genetic detective work to identify whales for sale in retail markets, sharks in shark fin
soup, where restaurant conch come from, and is genetically mapping corals resistant to climate change. Recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Steve is a board member for several conservation organizations and a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute of the Environment. His work has been used in design of the current network of marine protected areas in California, seafood labelling laws in Japan and the United States, and in numerous TV and film documentaries including the 2017 PBS series Big Pacific. Steve’s latest book for non-scientists is about the amazing species in the sea, written with Steve’s son and novelist Anthony, The Extreme Life of the Sea.
Mary Randall, former principal in the Salinas City Elementary School District, is a director at the historic Harvey House in Salinas; she will speak about Salinas women at the turn of the century.
For over ten years, Katie Rodger researched the life and work of Ed Ricketts, the model for John Steinbeck’s “Doc” in Cannery Row. She published two volumes, a critical edition of Ricketts’s letters (U. Alabama P, 2002) and his collected essays (U. California P, 2006). She is often invited to speak about Ricketts’s legacy as an ecologist, and has been
interviewed on NPR and BBC Radio. Since 2002, she has been a lecturer at UC Davis in the University Writing Program and regularly teaches Writing in the Sciences, Science Journalism, and Environmental Writing.
Ignacio Ornelas Rodriguez, Ph.D. is a UC Berkeley visiting scholar who conducts research on the Bracero Program and its legacies while also examining second-generation of Mexican and Mexican Americans who advocated for civil and voting rights in the Monterey Bay Area and communities across California. He is currently
working on the publication of his manuscript titled “The Struggle for Social Justice in the Monterey Bay Area 1930-2000: The Transformation of Mexican and Mexican American Political Activism.”
Susan Shillinglaw is the Director of the National Steinbeck Center and a Professor of English at San Jose State University, where she was Director of the University’s Center for Steinbeck Studies for 18 years. In 2012-13 she was named the SJSU President’s Scholar. Dr. Shillinglaw has published widely on Steinbeck, most recently Carol and John Steinbeck:
Portrait of a Marriage (U of Nevada P, 2013) and On Reading The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin, 2014). She also wrote introductions to several of Steinbeck books for Penguin New American Library editions. Currently she is writing a Steinbeck biography for Reaktion Books, London.
William Souder’s work has appeared in many publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Harper’s. He is the author of three books, including Under a Wild Sky, which told the story of pioneer and bird artist John James Audubon and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson was
published in September 2012 on the 50th anniversary of Carson’s Silent Spring. It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and was named one of the Top 25 Nonfiction Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. Souder has also appeared in documentaries about Audubon and Carson. His next book, Mad at the World: John Steinbeck and the American Century, will be published by Norton in 2019. Souder lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Virginia St. Jean is the granddaughter of Steinbeck’s older sister Beth, who lived in the Pacific Grove cottage from 1956 to 1989. The cottage is still in the family, and Virginia is delighted to open the house for Festival attendees.
Taelen Thomas/Steve Mortensen Taelen Thomas, local Carmel Bay bard and master of the oral tradition, is known for his golden, resonant voice and powerful stage presence. He creates and performs biographical dramas in which he “brings to life” literary personalities, including Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, John Steinbeck, Jack London, and Mark Twain, often performing with musicians.
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Sunday Art OpeningJanet Whitchurch Exhibit opening 2 PM Sunday in the Arts and Culture Gallery, inside the Steinbeck Exhibit Hall. On exhibit will be paintings from Janet’s new book, The Salinas River: Running North and Underground.
“For the past five years, I have been working on a project that involves the ‘discovery’ of the Salinas River and Valley - a riff on the documentation made by 19th century artists and explorers in the United States.”
Steve Mortensen has led and continues to lead a very interesting and creative full life. Although his degrees are in fine art and photography, he prefers cultivating his musical talent and is a songwriter and musician extraordinaire, playing all kinds of music, including songs written by himself, Woodie Guthrie,
Bob Dylan and many, many others.
Terry Trotter My family arrived in Pacific Grove in 1965, and as a teenager, I developed an appreciation for the rich artistic and cultural heritage of the Monterey Peninsula. In 1980 my wife Paula and I established Trotter Galleries, focusing
on early historical California artwork and Monterey/Carmel artists. Owner operated, we maintain galleries in Carmel and Pacific Grove. Recent acquisitions of three Steinbeck-Rickets collections have been incorporated a permanent exhibition.
Janet Whitchurch is a California native, whose abiding love of the Salinas Valley took shape in her recent book The Salinas River: Running North and Underground. She traveled around the Valley and on the Salinas River photographing, writing, drawing
and painting her impressions.
The Western Stage production of the dramatic musical reading, Of Mice and Men at Hartnell College, directed by Don Dally and Jon Patrick Selover
Jon Patrick Selover has been the Artistic Director at The Western Stage since 2002, where he has directed dozens of shows including Sweeney Todd, Tommy, The Threepenny Opera, Zoot Suit, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Carrie and last
season’s Young Frankenstein. Jon was the Dramaturg for The Western Stage epic adaptation of East of Eden and directed the world premiere of the adaptation of Travels with Charley.
Don Dally has been the Resident Musical Director at The Western Stage for 28 years. Credits include East of Eden, In The Heights, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening Tommy, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof,
Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Sweeney Todd, and many others. He has also worked at Pacific Repertory Theater, The Outdoor Forest Theater, and several theaters in San Jose, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Don teaches at York School, with Youth Music Monterey, Orchestra in the Schools, and the Lyceum.
$90 Festival Pass (three days of talks + Taco and Pizza lunches + Ricketts’s Lab reception + pre-show Of Mice and Men reception at Hartnell, 6:30 PM)
Á La Carte$30 Friday Ticket: includes talks at Hopkins Marine Station (1:30-5pm) and Ricketts’s Lab Reception. Co-Sponsored by the Cannery Row Foundation. $25 Friday Ricketts’s Lab reception, (5:00-6:30 pm) $150 Friday Banquet Ticket: Fundraiser for Cannery Row Foundation and the NSC (6:45-9:00pm) $30 Saturday Ticket: includes NSC talks, ( 9-5) + taco lunch.$15 Steinbeck Home Brew Fest Patio Pass (Sat, 11-4pm. NSC only) FREE: Of Mice and Men, the musical at Hartnell College, 7:30$30 Sunday ticket: (Special $10 for students and educators, with IDs) 9am-4pm+ pizza lunch + artist’s reception
Tours$30 Steinbeck in Pacific Grove: Friday, 9:30-11:30 (meet on Rec Trail near 11st, Pacific Grove). Steinbeck family cottage on 11th St. + Trotter Galleries exhibit, “The Artists of Steinbeck’s World.” Led by Susan Shillinglaw.$20 Ricketts’s Lab Tours. (meet at the Lab) Friday at 10, 11, 12. Tours by Mike Guardino and Greg Cailliet, Cannery Row Foundation. $10: Olive Steinbeck’s World (meet at NSC): Saturday at 8:45-10:00. Tour of the historic Harvey House, led by Mary RandallFree: Archives exploration at the NSC: Saturday 9:00-10:00$10: Kate’s Walk: Saturday 3:15-4:15. Tour of Downtown Salinas with John Mahoney.$50: Red Pony Ranch Tour, Sunday 9:30-11:30. With Susan Shillinglaw.
Films & TheatreFree: Film, Street of the Sardine by Eva Lothar (with filmed commentary by Lothar before the film). InterContinental, The Clement, second floor. Free: Theatrical premiere of Of Mice and Men, Saturday at 7:30.
Meals$25: Lunch at the Steinbeck House: Saturday 12:15-1:30. Presentations by Donald Kohrs—“Olive and the Wanderers’ Club” and Susan Shillinglaw “Ma Joad and Olive Steinbeck”$10: Taco lunch on Saturday and pizza lunch on Sunday available for those who did not purchase an all day ticket.
NOTE: Tickets can be purchased “day of” and individual tickets to speakers are $10.
TICKETS for all events by calling 831.775.4721 OR through Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-steinbeck-festival-tickets-42696069092
