. >> celina favorite's favorite son, the author john steinback. >> i had to lose everything i had in life. >> in the grapes of raft which became a movie, steinback wrote about this family who looks for work in the california fields. the novel was the best seller but steinback was no longer welcome in his own town according to his friend, hendricks. >> he says if he would ever come to california, they would kill him. >> who would kill him? >> the people that did not like him. >> many accused steinback to be -- >> john was not a commonist. instead, he says steinback simply bore witness to events in the field. >> still to come on a second look, they came in search of a better life, a look at what they found in the selena valley. and later, heart times and good times on the street in monterey that was renamed for steinback's novel, cannery road. >>> welcome back to a second look as we mark 75 years since the grapes of wrath was established. a land that promised a new life for those leaving during the great depression. 20 years ago betty and bruno went to santa cruz county where she sed f