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WHAT'S HOT?

A report by Howard Stableford of the BBC, featuring
Dr. Steve Webster (Monterey Bay Aquarium), Dr. Susan Shillnglaw
(then Director of the Center For Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University),
Katie Rodger (Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, Ed Ricketts bigrapher)
Michael Kenneth Hemp (Cannery Row Foundation; historian), and
Frank Wright (Lab Group member and friend of Ed Ricketts).
28 minutes of highly recommended listening before you attend the



JANUARY 28TH CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION TOURS OF
ED RICKETTS' LAB


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Museum of Monterey interview for its
100 Stories Project:
Michael Hemp and the making of
"SUR, Legend of The Last Otter Hunter"
(YouTube)

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Premiering at Amazon Kindle!
A new novel by Michael
Kenneth Hemp

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By 1906, the Western frontier has almost completely disappeared and wanted gunmen are a dead or hunted breed. An aging outlaw on the run from his violent past seeks sanctuary in Big Sur, a “Refuge for Settlers and Outlaws” on California’s wild central coast and is forced by fate to become the “last of the otter hunters”—only to be challenged by violence and hardship to a destiny as the only man able to save them from extinction by his own kind.

At Amazon Kindle ($4.95)

Don't have a Kindle?
You can save your purchase in the Amazon Cloud Reader
and download it to any device (like iPad), including your PC.

ANOTHER REVIEW IN! Another 5-Star!
More by clicking HERE.


REVIEW BY
David Schwarz

MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY
September 15th, 2011
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Click here for more on literary works
by Michael Kenneth Hemp.

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It's Here! With the update in process
at iTunes adding Big Sur to the app!
The iPhone app (also iPod and iPad!)
at the iTunes App Store.

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Launched with an immediate 5-star iTunes App Store rating!
Click "View on iTunes" button under icon for ratings.

  First user comments in:

September 11th 2011 :  “Great Guide!”

• "If you are around the beautiful carmel area, this app is a must have!
It has everything you'll need for info towards restaurants and wine etc.
and its also very easy to use with beautiful photos of each business!"
                - 09/11/11

• “Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!” Great app! It's just what our area needs.
Tourists and locals alike should get this app and use it as their mobile
guide to Carmel & Carmel Valley.” - 08/20/2011

• “Comprehensive and beautiful app. An amazing app and source for the
little hamlets of Carmel and Carmel Valley! As a business owner listed, I can vouch that
the listings were completely free. Congrats on an amazing resource. Makes me
very proud to be a resident and business owner!” - 08/20/2011
 
• “What a wonderful/beautiful app! I live here and am enjoying browsing for places to see, things to do.
Michael Hemp has created an absolute treasure! ” - 08/19/2011

• “Bruno's Market has the absolute best filet in Carmel!” - 08/15/2011

• Katy's Place - “I don't leave many comments so when I say great food and friendly staff believe it.
Pet friendly patio.” - 08/14/2011

• “Fabulous guide to the Carmel area! The pix were great. Very comprehensive. ” - 08/12/2011

 • “Finally, an all encompassing guide for the most beautiful section of California.
This app says it all and shows it all. The best couple of bucks I've ever spent. ” - 08/12/2011

 “Great app. Slide shows and descriptions really show you the area and help guide your visit.
Well worth the price. ” - 08/12/2011


iTunes Ratings:
iTunes ratings 8/20/11

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Our 5-star app on

John Steinbeck's Cannery Row
from The History Company
Expanded to include the entire Monterey Waterfront!

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(Click on icon to go to iTunes App Store)

Recently...

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CANNERY ROW, THE HISTORY OF JOHN STEINBECK'S OLD OCEAN  VIEW AVENUE
has been reviewed in the prestigious STEINBECK REVIEW!

Click here for the review.

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Click for
Steinbeck's "Cannery Row"
from Amazon.com






A Michael Hemp video interview about Edward F. Ricketts
and Pacific Biological laboratories
for the Museum of Monterey "100 Story Project"

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The nearly fictional novel of historic proportions!

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War correspondent Michael Wolfson’s passion to end torture, genocide and crimes against humanity
leads to a scientific revolution in truth technology that must survive attempted destruction
 by powerful secret, government, corporate and underworld organizations.

            Human behavior based on verifiable truth sounds good, but not to the array of powerful and
desperate adversaries any such truth science would face—for whom it would spell the end
of secrecy, illicit power and influence, the fruits of corruption, violence,
and crimes against humanity. Starting in Washington, DC.

For more on the actual bio-chemical truth technology based on current "CSI" GC-MS (Gas Chromatography-Mass Sprectrometry)
as seen in crime labs on CSI New York, CSI Miami, and CSI Las Vegas, Law and Order,
and other technically accurate crime scene technology televison and films, click here for the
Epilog of The Nadjik Pheromone, by pioneer CSI forensic biochemist, Dr. Brian Andresen.

Signed First Editions shipped FREE by Priority Mail.
 
For more information, details and background click on:

www.TheNadjikPheromone.com


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is also an Amazon.com 5-star!

Amazon.com Reader Reviews
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New review in!
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Click Here for other Reader Reviews!

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Available on Kindle, SmashWords for Sony and other eReaders, cell phones and iPods & iPads



A Review from the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINALISTS, CAC NEWS, Fall 2010






Announcing a new book designed by The History Company:

CUBA RISING
An American Insider's Perspective
by
Jonathan Showe
Publication release in January 2010 by Global Insights Press


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Title, book design, cover design
by Michael K. Hemp

Cover graphic art by R.K. Behrens Design (Monterey)

Now Available on Kindle, Sony eReader, iPad, and other electronic readers!

Click Here for Cuba Rising on YouTube!
Edited and Directed by Michael K. Hemp/The History Company
Video Production by Wave Street Studios

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Click here for the Jonathan Showe internet television interview
on Wave Street Authors Show

by host Michael Hemp—February 23rd, 2010
(Scroll down show list)

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Coverage in the Monterey County Weekly


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Click here for a National Press Release


Available (book or Kindle) on
www.Amazon.com
and
www.Barnes& Noble.com

www.CubaRising.net




An International tale of Ed Ricketts and the Lab:

Cannery Row on the shores of the Black Sea!

"
THE STORIES ARE ALWAYS BETTER"
A Bulgarian Memoir by Dr. Alex Gochev


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Memorial to Kalisa Moore
"The Queen of Cannery Row"
(1926-2009)

Kalsia Memorial

Dedicated on her birthday, January 31st, 2011.




KALISA

                                                Kalisa in the Lab in 1999. MK Hemp photo.


More on Kalisa Moore, the "Queen of Cannery Row."


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A new Cannery Row short feature on YouTube
by vacationing British filmmaker, Simon Morris

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KNRY AM 1240 Interview!
Don Bowen interviews Michael Kenneth Hemp
on "Around Town"
(Saturday, August 15th):
about Cannery Row and Bombardier's Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz.

Click to listen (some buffering; clean mp3 to be posted soon)

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Thank you to Ed Ricketts researcher Robbie Behrens
for the digital file of this 1983 recording (in its entirety) of an interview by

Michael Hemp with Joseph Campbell.
(Yes, that Joseph Campbell!)

(Including a visit to Ed Ricketts' Lab,
made possible by PBL member Frank Wright.)


This is interview is also part of the collection of interviews by historian Michael Hemp
digitized by and for the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas.


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FLASH AGAIN!
 The Nadjik Pheromone is a fiction finalist in
nat best books

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FLASH!
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is a 2009 Indie Book Award Fiction Finalist!

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Here it is!
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 The New Expanded Third Edition of
"CANNERY ROW, The History of John Steinbeck's Old Ocean View Avenue"
The History of Monterey's Sardine Fishing and Canning Industry

Special
Offer!
with
free shipping
Receive an
autographed copy
and an authentic
Cannery Row canning
label for a bookmark
or archival framing at
no additional charge,
and includes shipping
by US Media Mail
in the US:
$24.95 (cover price)

Click here to order.


   The new and expanded
Third Edition (2009)


"CANNERY ROW,
The History of John Steinbeck's
Old Ocean View Avenue"
by
Michael Kenneth Hemp

   
     
"The Book" on Cannery Row. The nearly twenty-year favorite of Cannery Row history, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts fans. This favorite of the Steinbeck Society of America has been called the essential companion to John Steinbeck's Cannery Row works.
      Hundreds of oral history interviews in the 1980s provided the human history of "America's Most Famous Street"—illustrated with 178 archival photos from the Pat Hathaway Historic Photo Collection of California Views. This new edition presents digitally restored photos and stochastic (random dot) printing for state-of-the-art clarity and detail.
      Deluxe "firm" cover, silver foil cover and spine titles, 128 pages, 178  photos, maps, full index, bibiography and web resource links, research and resources page. Old Cannery Row at your fingertips. Cover price $24.95.
     To order your copy you can visit the Company Store on this site, or if you prefer, you can link directly to Amazon.com to purchase your copy.
     A principle advantage of ordering from The History Company is that you will receive a signed copy and a free, authentic Cannery Row canning label as a bookmark—with immediate shipment by USPS Priority Mail anywhere in the U.S.
      Overseas orders should contact us for shipping costs and delivery time options.




And a sardine label bookmark, free!

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For free downloadable historic Cannery Row fish packing labels go to:
www.SardineKing.com









View Michael K. Hemp's profile on FiledBy
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Live and On-demand internet tv:


The Wave Street Authors Show
with writer-historian host, Michael K. Hemp,
broadcasting live from Wave Street Studios
on http://livenetworks.tv
774 Wave Street, Cannery Row-Monterey
7-9 pm every LAST TUESDAY of Each Month.
Free to the public; broadcasts "on-demand"
Call (831) 655-1020 for more information.

Due to an appearance scheduling conflict
there will be no Wave Street Authors Show on
Tuesday evening, June 26th.

See  you again on July 28th!


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"Apollo 11 Moon Landing and the
Junior Officers Revolt at
SAC Headquarters"

A memoir of a Moon Landing and the
SNAFU at SAC Headquarters
July 20, 1969.


Tune in! On a short-wave radio or crystal set near you! (www.krmlradio.com streaming audio, actually)
Live every Friday afternoon, 1 - 3 PM, Pacific Time. If you miss the show live, go to
www.BombardiersLounge.com and click on the old radio on the Home Page
for the complete show in MP3 or for download.

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Click here for www.BombardiersLounge.com


Click on the aircraft for the Bombardiers' Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz intro theme.


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Capt. Mike at the controls
Intro Theme (Glenn Miller, "In The Mood")
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And from the War that Never Was:
Capt. "MONKEY HOTEL" missions in Laos and Cambodia


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NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE HISTORY COMPANY:

"SHOW YOU KNOW"

U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS INSIGNIAS
Assorted size, precision die-cut stickers on fade-resistant, coated vinyl
10 stickers per 8-1/2" X 11" vinyl sheet

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Click on insignia for more info.

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The Historic
CARMEL VALLEY GUIDE
2004-2005

Historic Carmel Valley Guide

Created, designed and published by
The History Company to support the
Carmel Valley business community


 

The Historic GUIDE TO CARMEL VALLEY
(No longer in publication)


 
     The History Company
researched, created,  designed and published the first annual "Historic Carmel Valley Guide" for the Carmel Valley Chamber of Commerce. It follows the same format size and construction as the five annual volumes of the "Cannery Row Visitors Guide" created and published for the Cannery Row Company (1996-2001).
     Conceived as a residents and visitors guide to all of Carmel Valley, history acts as the umbrella theme under which all of the other assets of living in or visiting Carmel Valley are presented and unified.

     Carmel Valley history, from the first Spanish explorers to walk the beaches at Carmel Bay and their return to establish the Alta California Mission system, to the ranches, wineries and landmarks like "Rosie's Cracker Barrel" general store, are presented with stunningly detailed contour maps of Carmel Valley's four regions—from its mountains to the sea.

    


Click Here
to see
The Historic GUIDE TO CARMEL VALLEY




 
The 2005-2006 Guide

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The enlarged, 72 page, full-color Guide to
Historic Carmel Valley, with Valley history, respected community figures, aerial views of Carmel Valley,
an exclusive wine tasting map, "John Steinbeck's Carmel Valley," including
the first comprehensive
Carmel Valley Dining Guide
is now out of print.
However,  you can still see all of it
by CLICKING HERE.

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included in THE 2005-2006 GUIDE to Historic CARMEL VALLEY
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THE KALISA PROJECT

The Life and Times of the
"Queen of Cannery Row"

The History Company is collecting
stories, photos, memories and more.
Help us by contacting us with your
Kalisa Story—there are fifty years of
them on Cannery Row!

mkhemp@thehistorycompany.com




Kalisa's Cosmopolitan Place, 1958

Kalisa's 1958                                                            Robert Lewis photo

The Closing of Kalisa's La Ida Cafe, 2007



Kalisa with Thom Steinbeck, 1998
National Steinbeck Center

Kalisa and Thom Steinbeck 1998
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Websites Designed and Maintained by
THE HISTORY COMPANY

THE CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION
www.canneryrow.org
(graphic design by Bridges Design)

BOMBARDIER'S LOUNGE
WWII Big Band Jazz on KRML
www.BombardiersLounge.com

T.A. Wolfson Design
www.TAWolfsonDesign.com
Artful Interiors

THE NADJIK PHEROMONE
www.TheNadjikPhermone.com

THE WESTERN FLYER PROJECT
www.WesternFlyerPorject.org


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Announcing the creation of
"The Squid Brothers" Blog: in pursuit of perfect calamari!
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