John Steinbeck allowing Steinbeck to spend a full day on the set of "The Grapes of Wrath" and the next day on the set of "Of Mice and Men." In the 1930s and 1940s, Ed Ricketts strongly influenced Steinbeck's writing. Steinbeck frequently took small trips with Ricketts along the California coast to give himself time off from his writing and to collect biological specimens, which Ricketts sold for a living. Their joint book about a collecting expedition to the Gulf of California in 1940, which was part travelogue and part natural history, published just as the U.S. entered World War II, never
G. Milton Small and Associates Office Building on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. G. Milton Small and Associates Office Building G. Milton Small and Associates Office Building is a historic home and office located on Brooks Avenue in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect G. Milton Small (1916-1992), who also designed the Small House, and built in 1966. It is a one floor, steel-frame Miesian style building that covers most of a 69-foot by 155-foot flat lot. It features grids of aluminum mullions carrying metal panels and sheets of glass, and an overhanging flat roof. It housed the architecture firm