Photo of Steinbeck Museum display

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All in all it was a good, firm-grounded family, permanent, and successfully planted in Salinas Valley, not poorer than many and not richer than many either. It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists." East of Eden

Among the family members are John Adolph Steinbeck, Almira Dickson Steinbeck, Elizabeth Fagen and Samuel Hamilton.