Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The Denver Post - Checking in with Papa on Key West
The Denver Post - Checking in with Papa on Key West: "Key West, Fla. - I saw him on the same bar stool he left 70 years ago. I recognized him immediately. The gray, scraggly beard. The fisherman's cap. The book outline in his pocket. (Or was that an alimony check?) Yep, it was Ernest Hemingway, all right.
I had come to Key West before the start of the college football season and found its most famous resident, who wrote 90 percent of his work while living here from 1931 to 1940, sitting in his old haunt. The bar's name had changed. So had the town.
Maybe that's why Ernest had this sullen, brooding look on his face when I approached him. He looked as if he was going to hit me."
I had come to Key West before the start of the college football season and found its most famous resident, who wrote 90 percent of his work while living here from 1931 to 1940, sitting in his old haunt. The bar's name had changed. So had the town.
Maybe that's why Ernest had this sullen, brooding look on his face when I approached him. He looked as if he was going to hit me."
Labels: cuba, Environment, Just Because, Key West
