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Sneak Peek: The 2026 Winter Retreats — Video Dispatch

Tuesday, January 21 2025 by Editor

Clay with a look at what's coming for the 2026 Winter Retreats at beautiful Lochsa Lodge.

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Tagged under: Humanities, Montana, Native Americans, U.S. Presidents, Video

John Steinbeck’s Childhood Home — Video Dispatch

Tuesday, January 14 2025 by Editor

Earlier last summer Clay visited Steinbeck’s childhood home in Salinas, California.

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Tagged under: Books, California, John Steinbeck, Steinbeck Travels

Shakespeare, Thoreau, and Ed Abbey in the Bitterroot Mountains

Tuesday, January 14 2025 by Clay Jenkinson

Clay reports from his annual humanities retreat near the Montana-Idaho border in the Northern Rockies.

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Tagged under: Books, Humanities, Idaho, Montana, U.S. Presidents

Coast to Coast with Clay Jenkinson: Nolan’s 2024 Highlight Reel — Video Dispatch

Tuesday, December 31 2024 by Editor

Nolan Johnson, Listening to America’s intrepid videographer and podcast editor, shares highlights of his adventures with Clay while traversing the country from Long Island, New York, to the source of the Mississippi River to Monterey, California, on LTA’s 2024 Travels with Charley/Steinbeck Tour.

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Tagged under: California, John Steinbeck, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Steinbeck Travels, Video

Family Favorites: Christmas Cookie Recipes

Tuesday, December 24 2024 by Editor

Clay and his good friend David Horton share their favorite family cookie recipes in this week’s special Christmas edition of the LTA podcast.

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Tagged under: Holidays, Podcast

Reading Charles Dickens for Christmas — Have Desk Will Travel

Tuesday, December 17 2024 by Clay Jenkinson

Clay does a special public reading from the works of his favorite English Novelist, Charles Dickens.

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Tagged under: Books, Humanities, North Dakota

A Visit to Ed Ricketts’ Pacific Biological Laboratories — Video Dispatch

Tuesday, December 17 2024 by Editor

Clay talks about John Steinbeck’s friendship with marine biologist Ed Ricketts and visits Ricketts’ Pacific Biological Laboratories on Cannery Row in Monterey, California.

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Tagged under: California, John Steinbeck, Steinbeck Travels

Home Again and Happy Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 26 2024 by Clay Jenkinson

My John Steinbeck Travels with Charley tour is now over: 210 days, 21,114 miles, 1,407 gallons of gas, 41 states.

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Tagged under: Holidays, John Steinbeck, North Dakota, Steinbeck Travels

A Visit to Medgar Evers’ Home — Video Dispatch

Tuesday, November 19 2024 by Editor

Clay visits Medgar Evers’ home, now a national monument. Medgar Evers was killed by a white supremacist here, in front of his house, on June 12, 1963.