John Steinbeck in Thailand.

John Steinbeck inspecting onions with Pop Ewell (Midwestern farmer, center) and unknown man (far right) at an onion farm on the Mekong River in Northeast Thailand. Ewell was a American Farmer who devoted his life to the Meo tribespeople of Laos. He founded the village of Sam Thong and brought in a Hospital and school. Original in safe.