SALINAS – Cal State Monterey Bay has turned down two offers to buy the building that is home to the National Steinbeck Center, one of the largest literary museums in the country dedicated to a ...

The Steinbeck Center in Oldtown Salinas is up for sale and it’s raising concerns about the future of the Steinbeck Museum, its bookstore and a general lack of transparency regarding the sale.

Steinbeck wrote: “I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too. . . . And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the ...