Alongside the elevated rail line that carries passengers nine miles into downtown Chicago, an unused road leads to a trail, which cuts through a forest of towering mulberry trees.
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This is your passport to Papa's Planet, An Ernest Exploration of the Places Hemingway Lived and Loved.
My name is David Frey, and I'm a freelance journalist following in the footsteps of Hemingway, looking for lessons about the world then and now. I hope you enjoy it. For more about me, visit my website www.davidmfrey.com.
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Go Fish
Our ‘Pop Culture Obsession’
“The current pop culture obsession with all things Ernest Hemingway.” That’s how USA Today...
Gulf Stream of Consciousness
Hemingway was famous for his short, terse sentences. His journalistic style is often said...
This Old Finca
Home repair guru Bob Vila recently blogged about his work rehabilitating Hemingway’s Finca Vigía...
Vanity Fair Hunts Hemingway
“My loving you is a chink in the armour of telling the world to...
A Place Apart
Hemingway’s Wright Stuff
Exploring the streets of Oak Park, Ill., it’s easy to think of this town as the town Frank Lloyd Wright built.
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Wild Michigan Through Young Hemingway’s Eyes
To understand Hemingway’s Michigan, you not only have to understand the Michigan that he saw, but how it looked through his eyes as a young boy experiencing the world with eyes wide open.
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Orphaned by the Spanish Civil War
Sanchez wanted us to meet another man whose loved ones were believed to have been thrown in into the Wells of Caudé. He drove us into a new housing development where Jáures Sánchez and his wife had built a summer home. Soon we were driving aimlessly into the countryside. “I’ve been here one or...
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The Wells of Caudé
The surrounding countryside was littered with the graves of Franco’s victims, Francisco Sánchez told us. Some had just two or three bodies. One had many more. Six miles from Teruel, sandwiched between fields and factories along a highway, rose a whitewashed monument. The red, yellow and purple flag of the Spanish Republic rose overhead....
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Our ‘Pop Culture Obsession’
“The current pop culture obsession with all things Ernest Hemingway.” That’s how USA Today describes the whirlwind success of...
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This Old Finca
Home repair guru Bob Vila recently blogged about his work rehabilitating Hemingway’s Finca Vigía property in Cuba.
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Vanity Fair Hunts Hemingway
“My loving you is a chink in the armour of telling the world to go to hell and you...
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Two Books Open New Doors to Hemingway
Just because Ernest Hemingway has been dead for 50 years doesn’t mean people have stopped writing about him. Now...
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Hemingway Legacy Explored in T&C
True confession: I’m not a regular Town and Country reader, but when I heard about the Hemingway spread in...
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‘Damn Good Pictures’ in the New York Times
“Here’s what I like,” Ernest Hemingway said to his son Patrick, nicknamed Mouse, then a sophomore at Harvard. Accompanied...
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News from Hemingway's World
This Old Finca
Home repair guru Bob Vila recently blogged about his work rehabilitating Hemingway’s Finca Vigía property in Cuba.
Vanity Fair Hunts Hemingway
“My loving you is a chink in the armour of telling the world to go to hell and you can thrust a sword into it at any time,” Hemingway wrote to Hadley Richardson, the woman he was courting and who soon would be his (first) wife. It’s a rare surviving exchange between the two....
Twilight of the Big Game?
Author Fred Waitzkin says as a boy learning the ropes of big game fishing, he was “fired up by the Odyssean blue-water conquests of Ernest Hemingway.” Waitzkin writes a loving portrait of big-game fishing, with overtones of the demise of big-game fish, on outsideonline.com.
Free Drinks at Hemingway’s!
A toast to liquid diplomacy! The Atlantic reports that the Cuban Interest Section (which would under normalized circumstances be called the Cuban Embassy) in Washington, D.C. is opening Hemingway’s Bar on Oct. 6, an invitation-only joint that, because Americans are forbidden from giving money to Cubans, will offer free drinks.
Spanish Judge Garzon Challenges Case Against Him
Photo courtesy Flickr user Elfer. Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon is asking the European Court of Human Rights to overturn his prosecution for looking into Franco-era crimes — the latest indication that the ghosts of the Spanish civil war are still alive in Spain. Garzon had launched a probe in the disappearance of tens of...
Some Great Hemingway Resources
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