![]() ![]() “People from away make up more of this island now,” he said. Carter, 76, was headed home to make a big pot of chowder for his daughter. ![]() Herbie Carter joined us, a lean man with a sly grin, sunburned squint and twinkling eyes. ![]() “You can’t explain it to anyone, this place. His book “ The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights” would be published posthumously in 1976, and Avalon is central to those stories - a magical island known for its healing powers, and the place where Arthur is taken after he is wounded in battle. “One doesn’t have to be sensitive to feel the strangeness of Deer Isle,” he writes, noting that the place “is like Avalon it must disappear when you are not there.” Steinbeck had a lifelong obsession with Arthurian legend, so this was no casual reference. … All I knew about Deer Isle was that there was nothing you could say about it.”Īfter he’s been, he finds that he agrees with her assessment. ![]() He explains that his “friend and associate” Elizabeth Otis (actually his agent) was a longtime visitor there and had urged him to go: “When she speaks of it, she gets an other-world look in her eyes and becomes completely inarticulate. Britain, nationalism and the complicated joy of vacationing in your own countryīut the biggest early surprise for me was that Steinbeck’s first major stop on his trip was not someplace directly west of his then-home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., but way up on Deer Isle, Maine. ![]()
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