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Updated on September 23, 2023
Plan to attend another FREE Mason County Historical Society and Museum benefit
speaking engagement by MSHS&M lifetime member, author and historian,
Michael Kenneth Hemp returning to his familiar historical research turf on
Washington State's Hood Canal—on Wednesday, October 11th, 2023.
This return speaking engagement is again co-sponsored
by Union, Washington's renowned
Alderbrook Golf and Yacht Club
330 E. Country Club Drive E.
Union, WA 098592 • (360) 898-2560
In addition to more on-going original historical research results
about the Hood Canal of the 1930s and the emerging record of an intense
research presence of pioneering marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts, the father of ecology, and his family during many spring and summers
staying at the Gateway Inn (now Hoodsport's salmon hatchery)
there is more to exciting news connected to Ed Ricketts.
The 1937 Tacoma-built "Western Flyer" was made world-famous by
Ed Ricketts and his more famous friend John Steinbeck for their
1940 voyage of "science and leisure" to Mexico's Sea of Cortez to remove
Steinbeck from death threats by California's Associated Farmers
for his dust bowl exposé of their sins in "Grapes of Wrath".
After over 7 years of restoration at Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op
and nearly another year at Snow & Company in Ballard (Seattle) for
installation of her hybrid diesel-electric propulsion, controls, electronics,
and ship's gear—on November 4th, Monterey & Cannery Row will
celebrate the return of the "Western Flyer" to Home Port Monterey.
You don't want to miss the most recent chapter in the saga of the
"Western Flyer" presented by (yours truly) the Cannery Row-Monterey
historian who, in 1984, announced the prospect of the return to
Monterey of the "Western Flyer"—the result of research by
colleague Bob Enea, Monterey's sardine fleet and Sicilian heritage.
Not the least of which is that Croatian skipper Tony Berry and
Steinbeck-famous deck-hand "Sparky" Enea were his uncles!
Please join me, the general public, and the members of both the Mason County
Historical Society and the Alderbrook Golf and Yacht Club for this
incredible story at 4Pm on Wednesday, November 11th.
Followed by a "Meet the Author" and book signing.
It's in here:
Admission to this speaking engagement is free • Donations appreciated.
Countdown to
Western Flyer
Departure from
Seattle to home port
Monterey... Sign-up for the Western
Flyer
Foundation Newsletter
for up to date
information
and
photography of
the last
stages of the
Western
Flyer's
eight-year
restoration at
Port Townsend
Shipwright's
Co-op
and now at
Snow &
Company,
Ballard
(Seattle) for
hybrid-diesel
propulsion and
technical
outfitting.
If you're
around the
Seattle area,
look out for
her on
sea trials
begun
in-and-around
the Lake
Washington
area.
Be a Western
Flyer Finder and
e-mail us your
photos
we can share
on this
website (with
your photo
credits)
for the
Western Flyer
world that
this site has
been
championing
since the
early 1980s!
We also want
to share our
recognition
for a creative
new Western
Flyer logo
by
graphic
designer Zina
Oliver:
COME BACK SOON
FOR MORE
HISTORY OF THE
WESTERN FLYER
July 25, 2023 It's the 25th of July,
2023. It was on this date in 1930,
Ed Ricketts was photographed by his close friend
(and 1939 co-author of "Between Pacific Tides")
Jack Calvin. They had arrived at Port Townsend,
Washington, from British Columbia's Vancouver
Island,
to be there specifically on this
date—1000 miles from
Cannery Row—for the -3.42 low tide in
this photo.
Carl Gray, Hood Canal tidal
researcher, determined this tide would not come
again for 30 years!
Ed Ricketts, kneeling in winged kelp at Port
Townsend, July 25, 1930.
Jack Calvin photo/Pat Hathaway
Collection
Many of you reading this
may know that this photo is at
Port Townsend, Washington, where the 1937
Tacoma-built
Western Flyer would spend 8 years in magnificent
restoration
by the Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op. At
this time
she is in Ballard (Seattle) undergoing the
installation of
electronics and her hybrid-diesel propulsion!
Be ready for her impending return to Monterey;
to her new Home Port, with a life and detailed
history
you should know as much as possible about—from where
the Western Flyer is authoritative history — as you
may see some of it deeper in this website. But the
only way you'll have the most complete history
anywhere of the Western Flyer is this 5th Edition of
Please scroll below slightly to
order.
April 23, 2023 Are you ready for the Return of the Western
Flyer?
The restored Western
Flyer is heading south soon from Seattle to home port
Monterey!
Cannery Row and Monterey
have been waiting since this Herald
headline in 1984:
Monterey historian Bob Enea was
responsible for the search and discovery
of the re-named Western Flyer (to Gemini in 1970). This
news story did not
include him in its composition.
GET READY FOR THE WESTERN
FLYER DEPARTURE
from the maritime Pacific Northwest to home port
Monterey
FROM THIS: The Gemini (Western
Flyer)
raised after 2nd sinking at Anacortes,
Washington June 24, 2013
Art
Kendall photo
TO THIS: Restoration completed
at Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-op June 29,
2022
MK Hemp
photo
Hybrid diesel-electric propulsion
system installation under
way
at Snow & Company,
Seattle
MK Hemp photo
The
organized chaos of nearing
completion...for her
maritime Pacific Northwest
departure to Monterey
MK Hemp photo
Western Flyer departure from
Ballard (Seattle) Washington in a
matter of weeks
Stand-by for our
announcement of the departure and
its (Unannounced yet) destinations
If you are not already part of our
e-mail program e-mail your address for
notification)
(Past Event)
On March 14th,
2023, the
Western Flyer
Foundation
will present
another
program
to bring you
up to date on
the saga of
the Western
Flyer, plans
for her
future,
and an
estimated date
of her return
to Monterey.
Happy
Steinbeck's
Birthday (February
2, 1902 -
December 20,
1968)
John
Steinbeck's
Birthday gift
to you
is the
approaching
date of the
arrival
at Monterey of
the Western
Flyer upon
return to her
new home port
of
Monterey.
Steinbeck and
Ed Ricketts
"Ed Head" fans:
Detailed news
of the return
of the
Western
Flyer to
Monterey can
be found at
the Western
Flyer
Foundation
site along
with a load of
info and
photos of the
progress
of the
restoration of
one of the
world's most
famous boats.
The now
world-famous
Tacoma-built
Western Flyer
was chartered
in Monterey by
John Steinbeck
in 1940 for a
scientific
expedition to Mexico's "Sea of Cortez" with
his closest
friend and
mentor,
pioneering
ecologist
marine
biologist
Edward F.
Ricketts.
It was also an
escape from
the backlash
from
Steinbeck's
expose
of
California's
agricultural
industry in
"Grapes of
Wrath."
The
co-authored
book from that
journey became
a heralded
anthem of
ecological
consciousness
and the new
holistic view
that humanity
is
interconnected
to nature and
its
protection.
None of it
could have
been
accomplished
without a
stout
Croatian-build
Tacoma
purse-seine
fishing boat
which has
emerged from
an 8-year
restoration at
Washington
state's
Port Townsend
Shipwright's
Co-op, and
very soon from
the Seattle technical
expertise of
the Snow &
Company
installation
of a
revolutionary
hybrid
propulsion
system.
If you have
not heard
about any of
this topic or
have been
unaware of
what a
cultural,
marine
sciences,
literary, and
historical
accomplishment
is about to
happen at any
time...
You need this
authoritative
one-of-a-kind
book. Now:
by a
historian-scribe
and researcher
connected to
its identity,
historical,
maritime,
ecological,
literary, and
inter-cultural
legacies
since 1983.
With credit to
invaluable
sources and
colleagues
like Bob Enea
of Salinas,
California, on
his uncles
Croatian
skipper Tony
Berry and
deckhand
Sparky Enea;
and
for his
decades of
dedication in
locating the
Western Flyer
...and
assuring its
survival.
ISBN: 978-0-941425-06-3 (5th
Edition since 1986)
See special offer below!
The Western
Flyer
Foundation is
preparing to
return the
Western Flyer
to its home
port of
Monterey this
spring. Click here to learn more and
support the
debut of one
of
the most
famous and
certainly most
celebrated
boats
in the world.
November
9th, 2022 •
Hopkins Marine
Station
•
Western Flyer
update
Reception and
Program
Western
Flyer Foundation's John Gregg & Cannery Row
Foundation's Michael Hemp
photo by Anne-Marie Hemp
"New
Horizons:
Steinbeck's
Cannery Row in
Pacific
Northwest
History" An
archival
images
PowerPoint by
MICHAEL
KENNETH HEMP
presented by
the
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society December
3rd, 2022,at
the
Wagner
Educational
Center •
Center for
Wooden Boats
1010
Valley Street,
Seattle WA
98109
The Western
Flyer
Foundation
at Hopkins
Marine Station
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022 Stanford University Hopkins
Marine Station
•
Reception at
Miller Library
of Hopkins
Marine Station
• Presentation
of the status
and planning
for the 2023
Arrival
of the Western
Flyer at Home
Port of
Monterey
Key Peninsula News The
Voice of the
Key Peninsula
Vaughn,
Washington
9/1/22 Click
here for
the
NEWEST
PRESS ON
HISTORICAL
RESEARCH BY
MICHAEL
KENNETH HEMP
ON ED RICKETTS
& THE
WESTERN FLYER
"New
Horizons:
Steinbeck's
Cannery Row in
Pacific
Northwest
History" An
archival
images
PowerPoint by
MICHAEL
KENNETH HEMP
at the
68th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference September 29th to October1st, 2022, at
Kennewick,
Washington,
hosted by the
Washington
State
Historical
Society
in partnership
with the
Oregon
Historical
Society.
Presentation
at 2:45 pm,
Saturday,
October 1,
2022
Columbia
Center,
Ballroom
II/III
Kennewick,
Washington
2022
PACIFIC
NORTHWEST
HISTORY
CONFERENCE
SPONSORS
August
11, 2022
A Home-Style Monterey Podcast with everyone's
Sicilian
cousin "Cousin Johnny Aliotti"
about research
bringing news
of the shared
connections
between
Monterey
and the
maritime
Pacific
Northwest.
"Buzzin'
with Cousin" Click
Here
Re-naming
and
re-launching
of the Western
Flyer
(from Gemini
back to
Western Flyer)
June 29, 2022,
Port Townsend,
Washington.
-
Billy Wolf
photo
Click
here soon for
more photos.
Michael Hemp
photos of the
re-naming and
re-launching
of the Western
Flyer on
June 26th,
2022, at Port
Townsend
Shipwright's
Co-op, Port
Townsend,
Washington.
The
5th Edition is
here!
The new enlarged deluxe 5th Edition (since
1986) of
"CANNERY
ROW, The
History of
John
Steinbeck's
Old Ocean View
Avenue and
Its
Connections to
the pacific
Northwest"
This new enlarged edition provides additional
original
research about
• Ed
Ricketts and
his maritime
Pacific
Northwest
marine
biological
research for
his
introduction
of Ecology
• The
Pacific
Northwest
Croatian
boat-building
industry that
enabled
Monterey's
Sicilian
sardine fleet
to make it the
Sardine
Capital of the
World"
• John
Steinbeck and
Edward F.
Ricketts and
the
illustrated
Saga of the
Western Flyer
ISBN:
978-0-941425-06-3
$34.95
• Signed by the author • Shipped free by USPS
Media Mail •
Your purchase
includes an
authentic
1940s Cannery
Row sardine
label (a $10
value) (smaller
than actual
size • label
may vary by
cannery)