Re: NANFA-- Fwd: nanfa V1 #1969

Steffen Hellner (steffen_at_hellner.biz)
Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:31:04 +0100

What? Steinbeck ate salamanders?!

Steffen

> Von: John Bongiovanni <bongi_at_cox-internet.com>
> Antworten an: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Datum: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 8:40:50 -0600
> An: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Betreff: Re: NANFA-- Fwd: nanfa V1 #1969
>
> 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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