Steinbeck buys his booze in Connecticut

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New London, Conn., harbor, where working guys took a break.
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Steinbeck bought a frat-party’s worth of booze at a package store like this.
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Big old houses that Steinbeck and I saw 50 years apart line U.S. 5.

DSC_1853_copyNorthampton, Mass., was jumping with college kids.

 

“Charley” & America in Pictures

In the fall of 2010, I retraced the road trip John Steinbeck made for his bestseller “Travels With Charley.” Along with posting blogs to “Travels Without Charley” at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I took nearly 2,000 pictures of America and Americans.

I took snapshots of people I met, places I went or things I thought were interesting, pretty, funny or stupid. I photographed many places Steinbeck mentions in “Travels With Charley” as well as hotels and homes he stayed at while on his 1960 journey.

Some of my photos are pretty good, some are blurry or kind of crazy. Many were taken through my car windows at 70 mph.

Collectively they help me tell the true story of “Travels With Charley” and provide a hint of the beautiful country and good people I saw on my high-speed dash down the Steinbeck Highway.

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One Response to Steinbeck buys his booze in Connecticut

  1. Shaikh says:
    June 27, 2012 at 5:10 am

    Thanks, madtante, but, really, it’s not like I’m angry or even sad, but I am very, very disappointed. (Spoken like a true parent!) It’s like that supposed documentary, Catfish, about the guy who goes to meet the girl he met online and finds that she’s not who she claims to be. If that story is presented as true, you think about it one way. If you find out it’s really fiction, then it affects you in a different way. That’s all I’m saying.