Words of Wisdom: Truisms and Questionables: Enjoy
I enjoyed this and added the media. Thank you as always for reading this blog. Best, Christine Speaking Words Of Wisdom … BY KELLY HERTZ kelly.hertz@yankton.net Jan 4, 2018 During the past year, I had a desktop calendar delivering me (mostly) daily doses of the “365 Greatest Things Ever Said.” While I could dispute the […]
Hemingway Huffington Post Trivia: Part one
Happy New year to all: Below is the Huffington Post’s list of Hemingway Trivia BY TODD VAN LULING. A few were new to me. Best to all for 2018. Love, Christine 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Ernest Hemingway By Todd Van Luling Below are obscure facts about the novelist’s life, pulled from old interviews […]
IRMA AND THE HEMINGWAY HOUSE: KEY WEST
May the Hemingway house and all people in the path of Irma stay safe. Best, Christine Managers at Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home not heeding Mariel Hemingway’s plea to take the cats and go! A six-toed cat, one of many that reside at the home of author Ernest Hemingway, in 2013 in Key West, Florida. […]
Hemingway’s First Love
Hello! This is a sweet first love letter from Hemingway to a woman with no regrets: Read on for the article below. Best, Christine Hemingway Letters Pining For High School Love Interest Found In Marblehead May 05, 2017Updated 2017-05-05 10:37:25 By Bob Oakes and Yasmin Amer Share closemore Ernest Hemingway, the legendary author and tortured […]
More on Hemingway’s Brain and link to Findings of NFL Research on Concussion: Different take on it all
This is a long article but the points are interesting. Some of the formatting and photos of brain functioning could not be captured so my apologies. As those of you who follow this blog know, Hemingway was outrageously accident prone–from a young age even before you could blame it on drinking: sky lights falling on […]
Hemingway’s 100 year anniversary (from High School graduation)
On Saturday, June 24th, the Hemingway Foundation in Oak Park, Illinois, hosted a party to celebrate Hemingway’s graduation from high school in 1917 – 100 years ago – from Oak Park and River Forest High School. The Foundation provided some jazz, some spoken word performances, a silent auction, and cocktails. It has long been debated […]
Romance: Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich
Hemingway was a romantic. Sure, he was macho and tough and a man’s man in many ways, but he enjoyed women greatly and always had a close and loving relationship with Marlene Dietrich. One of Hemingway’s love letters to her is going up for auction. It is expected it will garner something in the vicinity […]
HOW DRIVING AMBULANCES IN WW I INSPIRED HEMINGWAY
How driving ambulances during World War I inspired Hemingway By Michael Riedel March 19, 2017 Several major artists and innovators of the 20th century served as volunteer ambulance drivers during World War I, shaping their experiences on the battlefield into groundbreaking works. The carnage horrified poet E.E. Cummings, who drove an ambulance in France. He […]
Hemingway and the Russians
With all of the talk about politicians and Russian connections, there has also been in the news recently much discussion of Hemingway’s Russian connections. It’s interesting to me since this information has been around, open, and in all biographies, yet seems to be presented as a new finding. I’m an amateur student of Hemingway and […]
HUNTER THOMPSON AND HEM’S STOLEN ANTLERS
Hunter Stockton Thompson (18 July 1937 – 20 February 2005) was an American journalist and author famous for his flamboyant writing style, known as Gonzo Journalism, which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and non-fiction. At the age of 67, suffering a bout of health problems, Thompson died at his home in […]