Here is a photo from an assignment covering the house where John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. I was blessed with some great natural light in the “Blue Room” Steinbeck House Valley Guild volunteer Karma Nilsen sets a table inside the Blue Room at the Steinbeck House in Salinas, Calif. on Wednesday September 30, 2009. John Steinbeck’s sisters Esther and Beth lived in the room until the upstairs was finished in 1906.