Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro in Havana, Cuba
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recycled materials by Ashley Saunders, a fifth generation Biminite. Saunders’ relatives boxed with Hemingway on makeshift rings on the beach. Open to the public, the museum showcases Hemingway artifacts, his sayings like “Write drunk, edit sober” on the walls, and old photos such as Pauline cutting his hair outside. HAVANA, CUBA 1940-1960 Hemingway divorced Pauline, and with his third wife Martha, he bought a home he called Finca Vigía in the San Francisco de Paula neighborhood, about 15 miles south of Havana.The 1886 property, with its incredible view of Havana, is where Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea. It’s now a museum, and the grounds are open for public tour. He and later fourth wife, Mary, enjoyed Havana’s bohemian nightclub scene in the late 1940s and 1950s with Hollywood glitterati like Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Up until the
last year of his life, Hemingway continued to sport fish. “In 1960, Hemingway last participated in an Ernest Hemingway International Billfish Tournament. It was then that he and Fidel Castro, also a participating angler, met. When we founded our Hemingway International Yacht Club in 1992, we wanted to recall the history of the former International Yacht Club of Havana, which, in 1950, organized the first Ernest Hemingway International Billfish Tournament. We have a seat of honor at the club and photos on the wall that show that meeting,” says Commodore Jose Escrich. The area between the Morro Castle at the entrance of Havana Bay and the town east of Havana called Cojímar is known as the Hemingway Mile. Here he frequently fished aboard Pilar. Escrich says anglers competing in the tournament today catch most of their fish in this area. m l
Immerse yourself in the life, legend and lore of Ernest
Hemingway, at the Hemingway Days festival in Key West. Set for July 19-24, 2022, to coincide with Hemingway’s birthday on July 21, the week-long celebration features a Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, a Running of the Bulls where contestants and past contest winners parade down Duval Street with hand-built bulls, a fishing tournament, 5K run and paddleboard race that are both a nod to Hemingway as an avid sportsman, and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, coordinated and judged by the author’s
granddaughter, Lorian Hemingway. For more, go to hemingwaydays.net
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