Re: NANFA-- Fwd: nanfa V1 #1969
John Bongiovanni (bongi_at_cox-internet.com)
Tue, 2 Mar 2004 8:40:50 -0600
Man I love this list! There are not too may places in this world where you can start talking about snakes eating salamanders and wind up on Steinbeck! Now that's poetry.
>
> From: Steffen Hellner <steffen_at_hellner.biz>
> Date: 2004/03/02 Tue AM 08:06:56 CST
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Fwd: nanfa V1 #1969
>
> Oh yes, I have read "The Grapes of Wrath" and if I remember right "Cannery
> Row" as well (in English, of course!;-). Didn4t know he was into
> Ichthyology. Thanks for the info.
>
> Steffen
>
> > Von: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
> > Antworten an: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> > Datum: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:48:19 -0500
> > An: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> > Betreff: Re: NANFA-- Fwd: nanfa V1 #1969
> >
> > Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath", "East of Eden", "Cannery Row" and
> > other novels set in the western U.S. from the 1930s-1950s. He also was
> > involved with a biological collecting trip to the Sea of Cortez (Mexico) in
> > the late 1940s and wrote an account which should be must-reading for anyone
> > interested in aquatic ecology and politics that affect it.
> >
> > The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California is now on the
> > site of much of Steinbeck's writing that dealt with the sardine fishing
> > fleet and canning industry. Steinbeck himself was basically driven out of
> > town in the early 1950s for showing too much sympathy to the factory
> workers
> > and union drives. I guess times have changed in Monterey...
> >
> > --Bruce Stallsmith
> > Huntsville, AL, US of A
> >
> >> From: Steffen Hellner <steffen_at_hellner.biz>
> >> Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> >> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> >> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Fwd: nanfa V1 #1969
> >> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:58:52 +0100
> >>
> >> Great writing! Who the f... is John Steinbeck? ;-)
> >>
> >> Steffen
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