i think that part of the reason that steinbeck likes sag harbor is he found working people here who they were more real. To himi, in the world of art, and i'm sure tee is true in literature, theres is a certain aledism and snobism. And he he said, i'm just a working man myself. My work is is that i write. So i'm actually working two full time jobs simultaneously. I need a new car. We're standing withina less than a hundred yards of where a friend of mine lives out in in a dom. They are poor people, myself included. 19 60 really was a big transition. Oer the
First in a three-part journey into the soul of America, through the eyes of working people who happen to be artists. In this episode, David Slater in Sag Harbor, New York, and Kalamu ya Salaam in New Orleans. Retracing the 1960 journey by writer John Steinbeck for his book, “Travels with Charley in Search of America.” Produced by John Biewen.