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Hometown Steinbeck Country: Garden of Memories

In December 1968, John Steinbeck told his wife, Elaine, that he couldn’t stand to be buried in “foreign soil.” In this video, we explore the Garden of Memories Cemetery, which is where John Steinbeck’s remains were interred in early 1969.