Tuesday, May 22, 2007
'Key Weird' -- Hemingway would still feel at home today
McCook Daily Gazette: Story : Column by Walt Sehnert: "In 1928 Hemingway settled in Key West Florida, with a new wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, and a new career, as a writer of short stories and books.
Though he lived in Key West for only 12 years, it was here that fully half of his lifetime literary works were written.
Today, some 70 years after he left Key West, the Hemingway stories are still fresh and vivid, and the locals refer to 'Our Ernest,' as if he were a neighbor who is merely on vacation and will be soon back among them.
Their Key West home, a major tourist attraction, is referred to as Hemingway's house, even though ownership stayed firmly in Pauline's hands after their divorce. The couple bought the home soon after arriving in town, thanks to the generosity of Pauline's Uncle Gus, who financed the purchase -- and future improvements on the home. "
Though he lived in Key West for only 12 years, it was here that fully half of his lifetime literary works were written.
Today, some 70 years after he left Key West, the Hemingway stories are still fresh and vivid, and the locals refer to 'Our Ernest,' as if he were a neighbor who is merely on vacation and will be soon back among them.
Their Key West home, a major tourist attraction, is referred to as Hemingway's house, even though ownership stayed firmly in Pauline's hands after their divorce. The couple bought the home soon after arriving in town, thanks to the generosity of Pauline's Uncle Gus, who financed the purchase -- and future improvements on the home. "
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