An award-winning short film about the Western Flyer has some serious star power behind it.

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Western Flyer Captain Paul Tate (left) and Western Flyer Foundation president John Gregg on the bow of the boat, re-creating a 1940 shot of Western Flyer’s original captain, Tony Berr, and writer-turned-explorer John Steinbeck in a similar position.

David Schmalz here, excited to share an outstanding short film about the Western Flyer, the famed boat John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts, along with a crew and Steinbeck’s wife, took from Monterey to the Sea of Cortez in 1940 to study marine life.

The film, a concise history of the boat and its recovery and renovation, stars actor Nick Offerman, of Parks and Recreation fame (among many other things), who both appears in the film and narrates it, and this past Tuesday, Nov. 19, it won a “silver” award in the fourth annual Anthem Awards in the Sustainability, Environment & Climate category.

I can’t speak to the prestige of the Anthem Awardsit’s the first I’ve heard of it—but the accolades don’t matter to me…

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