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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Monday, November 17 2025 by Clay Jenkinson

Seeing flags at half-mast last week brought to mind the immortal passage from the great poet and scholar John Donne.

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Tagged under: America at 250, Humanities

There Will Always Be an England (I Hope)

Monday, November 10 2025 by Clay Jenkinson

Clay traveled to England last week to attend his daughter’s graduation ceremony, where she received her PhD from Oxford University. Oxford University Graduation program. I had the joy yesterday, Friday, November 7, 2025, of seeing my beloved daughter take her degree at the seventeenth-century Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.…

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Tagged under: Humanities

The Latest in My Great 2025 Downsizing Campaign

Tuesday, November 04 2025 by Clay Jenkinson

Friends have encouraged me to downsize for well more than a decade. I’m making progress!

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Tagged under: Books, North Dakota

Natalia (Nat) and Michael (Mikey), two British school teachers, are currently on holiday in the US. They are canoeing over 3000 miles from Three Forks, Montana, down the Mississippi to New Orleans.

UPDATE: Two Brits and a Wee Paddle From Montana to New Orleans

Sunday, October 26 2025 by Clay Jenkinson

Featured on our podcast last week, LTA followers have asked for an update in the saga of Nat and Mikey, a couple of Brits currently paddling from Montana to New Orleans.

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Tagged under: Lewis and Clark, North Dakota, South Dakota

Inspired by Thoreau and the inevitability of time, Clay undertakes sorting through a six-decade collection of thousands of books.

My Adventures in Downsizing

Monday, October 20 2025 by Clay Jenkinson

After spending five or six decades buying books, an enormous number of books, I have begun to downsize.

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Tagged under: Books, Humanities, North Dakota

A rare photograph of John Steinbeck, his dog Charley, and the truck camper, Rocinante, taken in the hills near Salinas, California. The image is one of the few that exist from Steinbeck's 1960 road trip that became the basis for Travels with Charley.

You Don’t End up Here By Accident: Rediscovering Steinbeck’s California Beneath a Lone Valley Oak.

Monday, October 13 2025 by Russ Eagle

Inspired by an image of the famous author in an old poster, and after years of searching, Listening to America’s Russ Eagle, with the help of intrepid friends, discovers the remote spot in the hills near Salinas, California, that John Steinbeck, his dog Charley, and the truck camper, Rocinante, visited on their 1960 journey.

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

Where Steinbeck Said Goodbye to His California Home — Video Dispatch

Thursday, October 09 2025 by Editor

Clay and Russ Eagle recently visited Fremont Peak, which overlooks California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Bay. It was an especially important spot for John Steinbeck and deeply tied to his youth. Russ reads a passage from Travels with Charley, where the famous author writes about his last visit to there.