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Article: You Don't Know Jack
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- Monterey County Weekly
- Article date:
- October 4, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Monterey County Coast Weekly Oct 4-Oct 10, 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The local story behind the country's proudest cheese is hard to slice.
The story of Monterey Jack has all the trappings of a great Steinbeck novel: migrant families, a rich land baron, tensions between ranchers and workers, struggle, injury and loss, all set against the natural environment of Monterey County. It's part history, part legend. It tells the tale of the county's original pioneers, and how our community came to be what it is today.
Finally, it is wrought with mystery and intrigue-and offers no definitive truth.
"As a historian I would like to be able to say, 'This is the best evidence,' " says Dennis Copeland, Monterey Public Library archivist and historian. "I'm in a quandary. ...