![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are few gaps between the fields, just a vast expanse of flatness filled with the rich, fertile sandy soil in which market garden plants thrive. Highway 101 runs right the way through the Salinas Valley, every square inch of which is farmed now on an industrial scale. And how those flatlands were, and still are, farmed is the backdrop for one of Woodie Guthrie’s best known songs, Plane Wreck at Los Gatos, better known as Deportee. Salinas, Monterey and the fertile flatlands between the mountains all provide the settings for three of John Steinbeck’s best novels, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men and, of course, East of Eden. Travelling between Los Angeles and San Francisco, it’s impossible – for me at any rate – to escape the literary history of the area. ![]()
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