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This 2025 Holiday Season we are participating in the MC Gives Campaign, and ask that you help us reach our goals through this matching program.

To kick- the campaign off, please listen to this message from renown humanities and Steinbeck scholar Clay Jenkinson from inside the Rocinante:

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Steinbeck’s Phalanx: Bruce and Jean Ariss

Join National Steinbeck Center Archivist, Lisa, to learn about Bruce and Jean Ariss, members of the Lab group on Cannery Row. Living in Monterey County for most of their lives, many of Bruce’s works of art are still part of the landscape in Monterey.