To Kill a Mockingbird’ Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel is a ...

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The Western Flyer is best known for its 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition with author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts at its helm. The duo’s six-week expedition was historic and ...

Shop Now Steinback thought of East of Eden as his magnum opus. As Penguin Classics writes, "Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the ...

Photo courtesy the Western Flyer Foundation. Long Beach welcomes the famed Western Flyer ship this Saturday as it prepares for a three-month voyage to retrace the 4,000-mile trip immortalized by John ...

John William Donavan, 73, of Hyrum, Utah, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family on March 18, 2025, following a long, valiant health battle. He was born on March 26, 1951, in Logan, Utah, to ...

John D. Soldra Sr., age 81, entered eternal rest on March 13, 2025, in the comfort of his home. He was the beloved husband of the late Luba Marciniak Soldra. Born in Derby on May 26, 1943, he was the ...

John Kenneth Hemmer, Sr., (Commander U.S. Navy retired) died March 5, 2024 in Palm Desert, California. He was born August 19, 1934 at Center Valley ... He lived in Salinas during his time at ...