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Tortilla Flat

GRAND PROCRASTINATION

THIS SIMPLE BRONZE PLAQUE
HONORING THE WORK OF JOHN
STEINBECK WAS SCULPTURED 
IN 1938 BY WILLIAM GORDON
HUFF. IT WAS DEDICATED THAT 
SAME YEAR BY NOTED WESTERN
HISTORIAN DR. CHARLES L.
CAMP WITH ALL THE UNWAVER-
ING ORATORICAL PROFUNDITY
WHICH TRADITIONALLY DIS-
TINGUISHES THIS ANCIENT AND
HONORABLE ORDER.

IT TOOK 47 YEARS HOWEVER,
TO GET AROUND TO MOUNTING
IT. CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM.

REDEDICATED AND MOUNTED 
AT LAST ON THIS 13TH DAY
OF JULY, 1985.
YERBA BUENA 
CHAPTER NO.1
MONTEREY VIEJO
CHAPTER NO. 1846
E CLAMPUS VITUS

'HE SOWS HURRY AND
REAPS INDIGESTION'
(ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON)

 

 

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