Robert Louis Stevenson - An Apology for Idlers - Monterey, CA - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

A relief sculpture depicts a pot of beans cooking and reads:

TORTILLA FLAT
ECV '38"

It is signed "Huff 1935"

Below is a plaque which adds:

"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
REARS INDIGESTION'
(ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON)"

The Stevenson quote is from one of his essays entitled "An Apology for Idlers". See (visit link)

Address: Cannery Row Brewing Company 95 Prescott Ave, Monterey, CA 93940 Website: [Web Link]

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