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A visit to Steinbeck’s East of Eden Ranch & the Steinbeck Festival

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Travel Correspondent Tom Wilmer talks with Steinbeck expert Dr. Susan Shillinglaw about the 75th anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath, and the first public tour of the old Steinbeck family ranch near King City.

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.