To say I was a little bit apprehensive might be an understatement. The source of my fear wasn’t simply all that water, but something else.
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This is the attraction we came to Key West to see, the Hemingway Museum, Key West. This is a two story bungalow on high ground in the middle of the island. It was the family home of Hem and Pauline Pfeiffer, the woman who stole him from Hadley, and their two sons. Bad Pauline I
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If you are planning to visit Hemingway bars where he drank when he lived on Key West, Florida, you have two stops to make. First To Captain Tony’s Captain Tony’s Saloon in Key West is a dark hole with tables, a guitarist, a bar tender and a gnarled tree pushing up through the ceiling like
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The mystery, the Hemingway mystique, has been with me since I was an undergraduate. Hemingway framed himself as the hero-writer of his era. The pose reminds me of the mystery of the Greek hero-god Think about melancholy Achilles, whose diffident greatness was captured brilliantly by Brad Pitt in the 2000 movie Helen of Troy. (movie
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