Travels with Charley in Search of America
June 7 & 8, 2024
CALLING ALL READERS: Sign up HERE
Join our community-wide reading of John Steinbeck’s endearing classic, Travels with Charley. Starting in Sag Harbor Cove during Hurricane Donna, the book travels the country “in search of American.”
Sign up to read in or sponsor this community event.
Travels with Charley not only showcases Sag Harbor, but proves Steinbeck’s acumen for finding the pulse of our country at a time of social upheaval. Our Travels marathon begins and ends at Canio’s, with stops at the Whaling Museum and Jermain Library along the way. Don’t miss the ride!
To READ, please sign up HERE.
Or, email caniosculturalcafe@gmail.com with Travels reader as subject. Include the date & two-hour window you’re available. You will read for ten minutes. We’ll send a confirming email.
The Marathon is a fundraiser for our educational non-profit, Canio’s Cultural Cafe (CCC). Please choose your level of support:
Hurricane Donna: $75 receives our gratitude CLICK HERE
Fayre Eleyne: $125 receives our gratitude & a Steinbeck sticker CLICK HERE
Steinbeck: $250 receives above & copy of Travels with Charley CLICK HERE
Rocinante: $375 receives gratitude, sticker & copy of LOA Steinbeck hardcover
Charley: $700 receives gratitude, sticker & 4-volume LOA Steinbeck set. CLICK HERE
You can also mail your check, payable to: Canio’s Cultural Cafe, 290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963. Contributions are tax deductible.
We can’t wait to hear from you! Thanks for supporting our Travels with Charley fundraising effort.
with appreciation,
~ Kathryn & Maryann
Travels with Charley in Search of America Marathon events
DATE TBD Film, Travel with Charley with Peter Fonda. Exec Producer, Lee Mendelson
Marathon Reading Schedule
Friday, June 7
5:00 – 7:30 pm Canio’s Books
Saturday, June 9
10:00 am – noon John Jermain Memorial Library Rotunda
12:15 – 2:15 pm Sag Harbor Whaling Museum
2:30 – 5:00 pm Canio’s Books
5:00 – 6:30 pm Canio’s Books LAWN: AFTER PARTY with Silent Auction, Music by Job Potter, Food & FUN!
The mission of Canio’s Cultural Cafe (CCC) is to support and engender community interest in the cultural arts, with an emphasis on literature, visual arts, and current events. The CCC will accomplish this by hosting lectures, workshops, seminars and other public forums that will include a diversity of artists, writers, educators, independent scholars, students, and community members who might not otherwise be heard. Canio’s Cultural Cafe is a 501 (c)(3).
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John Steinbeck Winter of Our Discontent, May 18-20, 2018
Join us to read The Winter of Our Discontent on Saturday & Sunday, May 19 & 20. John Steinbeck wrote the book while living in Sag Harbor and the fictionalzed New Baytown bears a strong resemblance to Sag Harbor. On Friday, May 18, 5p.m. we will have a Steinbeck scholar and aficionado speak about the work with a simple reception. The Marathon starts Saturday, 11 a.m. and concludes on Sunday with an After PARTY with Silent Auction to benefit Canio’s Cultural Cafe. Check out some of the items on our Marathon Silent Auction page. Please call to read! 631.725.4926 or email caniosculturalcafe at gmail.com.
Walt Whitman Marathon, May 21, 2016
“Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born,
… I strike up for a New World.” – Walt Whitman
Join us to celebrate Long Island’s great American poet, Walt Whitman. Canio’s Cultural Cafe’s marathon reading of Leaves of Grass honors Whitman’s birthday, May 31 (born 1819). Community poets, actors and others will read a selection of Whitman’s most loved poems from Leaves of Grass.
We invite you to come listen, read and celebrate. Support the Marathon and our not-for-profit Canio’s Cultural Cafe by sponsoring a poem. You can even have your photograph taken with “Walt” outside the shop!
Friday, May 20 at 6 p.m. Pre-Marathon Event, “Whitman on Long Island” with William T. Walter, President, Walt Whitman Birthplace
Saturday, May 21, 10 – 6 p.m. MARATHON Reading at Canio’s Books
Saturday, May 21, 6 to 7:30pm After PARTY at Canio’s
Poetry is meant to be heard. It speaks to the ears and heart, so don’t miss this marvelous way to experience Whitman’s words live. Register to read a poem. Please email caniosculturalcafe@gmail.com or call 631.725.4926.
Reserve a seat at our Pre-Marathon scholar’s talk Friday, May 20, 5 p.m. with Karen Karbiener, Whitman expert who leads a Marathon read at the Brooklyn Bridge in June.
SPONSOR A POEM:
You can sponsor a poem with a donation at the following levels with our heartfelt thanks. The list of poems is below for your selection.
$50 – listing in our program
$100 – listing in our program and commemorative button
$200 – listing in our program, commemorative button, Leaves of Grass book
$500 – all of the above, plus Canio’s canvas bag
We look forward to seeing you at Canio’s Cultural Cafe’s Walt Whitman Marathon Reading, the weekend of May 20/21.
WALT WHITMAN MARATHON Selected POEMS
INSCRIPTIONS
One’s-Self I Sing
To Foreign Lands
Beginning My Studies
To the States
I Hear America Singing
Poets to Come
To You
Thou Reader
Starting from Paumanok
Song of Myself
CHILDREN OF ADAM
I Sing the Body Electric
CALAMUS
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Song of the Answerer
A Song for Occupation
SEA-DRIFT
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
BY THE ROADSIDE
A Boston Ballad
Europe the 72nd and 73rd Years of These States
Gods
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer
DRUM-TAPS
Come Up from the Fields, Father
The Wound-Dresser
MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
O Captain! My Captain!
AUTUMN RIVULETS
There was a Child Went Forth
Old Ireland
This Compost
Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
The Sleepers
To Think of Time
WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
A Noiseless Patient Spider
A Paumanok Picture
FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
Faces
To a Locomotive in Winter
Mannahatta
A Clear Midnight
SANDS AT SEVENTY (First Annex)
Mannahatta
Paumanok
From Montauk Point
America
SONGS OF PARTING
So Long!
Canio's Cultural Cafe 
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