I thought it was amusing in a macabre sort of way that the trolley cars in Monterey always refer to the train crossing where Ed Ricketts was killed -- "a great loss to biology" as the potted speech they give puts it. He would have laughed.

The part I was most moved by was my bus ride to Salinas one morning, where in every field, as far as the eye could see, the hordes of workers were coming down off trucks, or gathered around trucks getting their orders for the day.

yours,

Peter T.