DISPATCHES FROM THE ROAD
Coast to Coast with Clay Jenkinson: Nolan’s 2024 Highlight Reel — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, December 31 2024
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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Family Favorites: Christmas Cookie Recipes
Tuesday, December 24 2024
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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Reading Charles Dickens for Christmas — Have Desk Will Travel
Tuesday, December 17 2024
Clay does a special public reading from the works of his favorite English Novelist, Charles Dickens.
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A Visit to Ed Ricketts’ Pacific Biological Laboratories — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, December 17 2024
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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Home Again and Happy Thanksgiving
Tuesday, November 26 2024
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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A Visit to Medgar Evers’ Home — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, November 19 2024
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.
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Route 66 and The Grapes of Wrath
Monday, November 11 2024
I’ve been at both ends of U.S. Route 66 this year, the highway we associate with John Steinbeck and the Joad family of The Grapes of Wrath.
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John Steinbeck’s Beloved Monterey Bay — Video Dispatch
Monday, November 11 2024
As Clay traveled across the country, he stopped at John Steinbeck’s beloved Monterey Bay, home of the author’s great friend Ed Ricketts and the inspiration for many unforgettable characters immortalized in his novels.
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Touring Glendive, Montana’s “Biblical History” Dinosaur and Fossil Museum — Video Dispatch
Monday, November 04 2024
The Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in eastern Montana presents its detailed fossil displays in the context of “Biblical history.”
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The Story of Red Lake Nation — Video Dispatch
Monday, October 28 2024
Clay shares some of the unique history of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which covers 1,260 square miles in Northern Minnesota.
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