Visited the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas with interactive exhibits highlighting John Steinbeck's life and works. Many of his novels included experiences from his life in the Salinas Valley and the people he encountered there. The attached Rabobank Agriculture Museum focused on the crops that are so important to the rest of the world that are grown in this same area.
Steinbeck wrote: "I think I would like to write the story of this whole valley, of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wider hills. I can see how I would like to do it so that it would be the valley of the world." This term Valley of the World has been incorporated in marketing the area and its crops.
We, again today, saw many people doing repetitive and difficult work in the fields to grow and harvest the crops that we take so for granted in our supermarkets throughout the year.
A quilt hanging in the museum commemorates some of the crops grown here.
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