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 Awards—it’s the first I’ve heard of it—but the accolades don’t matter to me…