tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12880671.post6126947746023867610..comments2024-03-19T09:12:47.863-06:00Comments on Michael Shay's <em>Hummingbirdminds</em>: First comes the reading and then the literary tourismMichael Shayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08622613457420118934noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12880671.post-25840935447839454212018-01-11T08:35:47.944-07:002018-01-11T08:35:47.944-07:00Thanks for the link. It's funny how the mind c...Thanks for the link. It's funny how the mind can play tricks on you, especially in altered states. A few days after this, Dan and I visited our friend Tom in Petaluma north of S.F. I was impressed when I took a walk down his alley and saw pot plants growing in most of the backyards. Guess they don't have to bother with homegrown any more. Michael Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08622613457420118934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12880671.post-67512776587802648252018-01-09T19:33:00.339-07:002018-01-09T19:33:00.339-07:00Mike,
See the NY Times story in this link from 19...Mike,<br /><br />See the NY Times story in this link from 1982 with the following:<br /><br />A final literary note: the Steinbeck Lobster Grotto, formerly the Steinbeck Lobster House, has seafood dinners for about $15-$16 a person. Reservations recommended: 408-373-1884.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/travel/guide-to-an-old-california-city-getting-there.html<br /><br />Lobster House, Lobster Pot.....being 1980 imagine the effects of pot may have caused you to mis-remember....RobertPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759559269928686204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12880671.post-89671285152405663492018-01-08T11:11:57.681-07:002018-01-08T11:11:57.681-07:00Mari Sandoz -- that sounds like a great conference...Mari Sandoz -- that sounds like a great conference. I want to explore Steinbeck's haunts in California. I passed through Monterey in 1980 when my brother Dan and I drove up the coast from Santa Barbara to San Francisco. I swear that we ate at a place called Steinbeck's Lobster Pot in Monterey. I can't find any mention of such a place on Internet searches. Maybe it was a figment of my overactive literary imagination. Michael Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08622613457420118934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12880671.post-46226130554376250552018-01-08T10:11:31.639-07:002018-01-08T10:11:31.639-07:00Snark has been around a long time--it just didn...Snark has been around a long time--it just didn't travel so fast in the past:-)<br /><br />I sort of fell into being a literary tourist by chance last year when I went to the Mari Sandoz conference in Chadron. I mostly wanted to support a fellow writer (a Brit, Alan Wilkinson) but landed in among a slew of Sandoz fans. It was a fascinating experience. Such passion! I can't claim to be a groupie of any writer, except maybe Steinbeck. I wholeheartedly agree with your assertion, though, that the reading comes first. Always. Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465569682893565883noreply@blogger.com