rom an outside perspective, the ship wreckage found on Swinomish Indian Reservation land in Washington state in 2015 was just that, wreckage. The paint was peeling off the old 76-foot and holes littered the hull. Most might have simply passed by the wreckage, but it caught John Gregg’s eye. No ordinary workboat, was , the boat that author John Steinbeck and his marine biologist friend Ed Rickets chartered in 1940 for a trip to the Gulf of California. The research from that expedition became the subject of , which won Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.
