Steinbeck
Your Comments: Can You Go Home Again?
We aired a story last week about John Steinbeck and Monterey, California. After returning to Monterey as an older man, Steinbeck wrote, “What we knew is dead…what’s out there is new, and perhaps good, but it’s nothing we know.” Kind of a downer. We asked what your experiences returning home were, and we’ll hear one […]
Travels with Charley: New Orleans
John Steinbeck’s last major book, Travels with Charley, recounts his experiences while on a road trip across America with his poodle, Charley. Fifty years later, we follow in Steinbeck’s footsteps to see how those places have changed or stayed the same. This week we’re in New Orleans, where Steinbeck witnessed angry crowds protesting the desegregation […]
Traveling in Charley’s Footsteps
In the fall of 1960, the writer John Steinbeck climbed into a camper truck and started driving. He and his standard poodle Charley roamed for ten thousand miles, completing a circuit around the U.S. The result of their exploration was the book Travels with Charley In Search of America. A half-century later, producer John Biewen […]