About 45 minutes by car, I should think.

Robyn

At 09:29 6/4/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Isn't that really close to Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world?
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>On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Fishwri wrote:
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>> Castroville is indeed "The Artichoke Capital of the World."
>> Castroville is a small town just north of Monterey in central California.
>> Artichokes grow well in this cool,
>> summer-dry (= Mediterranean) climate.
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>> A very obscure bit of trivia--Marilyn Monroe was once
>> (reportedly) Castroville's Artichoke Queen.
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>> Eileen Campbell
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