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From the Archive: Sweet Thursday

Bringing the National Steinbeck Center museum to you at home, listen with Lisa Josephs, our Museum Archivist, to John Steinbeck reading a portion of his 1954 sequel to Cannery Row, “Sweet Thursday”.