#ed ricketts

[serendipitous-encounters]

I love it when Steinbeck waltzes into his own novels

(-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row)

(-John Steinbeck, “About Ed Ricketts”)

[toast-with-jam38]

My Steinbeck shelves!! I feel so much love for them I figured I needed to post more!

(If anyone has a question on why something is included or a decoration is there you should leave a comment ☺️)

[comahonyart]

My 7th grade English teacher introduced me to Steinbeck with The Red Pony. Her name was Mrs Randall. She was a lovely lady from Minnesota. She would read to us one chapter each Friday of whichever book we were reading. I'll never forget her. It was a new school for me. Catholic HS Prep type place. The nuns were mean and one priest was a creep. He ended up taking his life rather than face consequences. But Mrs Randall was a gem. She sent me down this path that I still walk today. Steinbeck, Jeffers, Hemingway, London, Fitzgerald...I still have that copy of The Red Pony she gave me.

This is The Log From The Sea of Cortez. Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts are primarily behind it. In 1940 they set off from Monterey, CA in a sardine boat to investigate and document the Sea of Cortez, BC, MX. Long story short, the boat sank up Tacoma way 10 or 15 years ago and a group of good folks rescued her. She was restored. Last month the same group set her off again to follow the same route. She stopped in Santa Barbara, LB, Newport and SD one the way. It was unreal.

I wish Mrs Randall knew how her kindness to an incredibly shy kid made such a difference.

Support teachers. Support literature. Support discussion and debate. Support the arts. Support one another. We're all part of one enormous living organism.

I ramble.

Dispatch from 35K'

Where is the Western Flyer?

[edricketts]

I need to get back on tumblr so happy birthday bestieeeeee

[iodos84]

Yesterday I got to go on a tour of the main deck and quarters of the Western Flyer, a sardine boat commissioned by Ed "Doc" Ricketts and John Steinbeck to travel to the Sea of Cortez [aka the Gulf of California] in 1940. The boat was almost lost to history but with a lot of money and TLC, it will now be used around the Monterey Bay as a steward for education through the Western Flyer Foundation. It is temporarily docked in Moss Landing, but eventually will have a permanent home in Monterey. It will also make regular trips back to Washington, where it was both built and refurbished. If anyone happens to know the story about the antlers on the crow's nest, I'm very curious! All shots were taken with my Canon Rebel XS EO5.

[joeygallagher]

Pacific Biological Laboratories 

Monterey, CA

[montereybayaquarium]

It's a tide pool party to wish legendary intertidal ecologist Ed Ricketts a happy birthday! 

Take a look at some of the extreme critters that shelter in place between the tides along our rocky coastline—including shore crabs, anemones, hermit crabs, turban snails, octopuses and sculpins.

[heycalacademy]

Gulf sun star / CAS-IZ 67966

Scientific name: Heliaster kubiniji Locality: MEXICO: Gulf of California Collection date: Mar or Apr 1940 Collector: E.F. Ricketts Department: Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, image © California Academy of Sciences