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Hemingway was famous for his short, terse sentences. His journalistic style is often said to have changed, and defined American writing. But …
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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. 
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The Gulf waters where Hemingway used to love to fish are changing. Global warming is heating up the waters, and that’s been bad news for the coral reefs that underpin the aquatic ecosystem. Recently, National Geographic listed the beautiful elkhorn coral among Ten U.S. Species Feeling Global Warming’s Heat. “Elkhorn coral once formed the backbone...
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When Hemingway was trolling the Gulf for big fish, Bimini was one of his top stops, and the the Bimini Game Club was top of the itinerary. Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts have reopened the club, and with help from Hemingway descendants, remodeled it in Hemingway style.
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Paris’s cafe culture is mobbed with tourists. The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting. But nowhere are the changes to Hemingway’s world more obvious than in the Caribbean, where global warming is changing the waterways he used to fish and threatening to drown the islands he used to explore. Diplomats from 43 island nations are...
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Three pieces about three very different places tied to Hemingway have caught my eye lately. First, one from the Miami Herald on Bimini, including an interview with grandson John Hemingway, who has visited the island since he was a youngster. “He loved the island atmosphere,” John Hemingway said. “This is calm. This is relaxed.”...
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