Happy Birthday, Hemingway!

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today is my birthday. I share this day with a favorite author, Ernest Hemingway, who was born July 21, 1899 and died July 2, 1961. Hemingway was a master of the short story. He used language so precisely, writing only what was necessary to tell a tale. Despite the spare prose, the reader feels the presence of what has been left unsaid. Whether he was describing war, a bull fight or a conversation between a man and woman, Hemingway’s writing was always elegant. In honor of his birthday, I share some photos of Hemingway’s homes.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobvDeIBnGdAXPWvWeuCghbQE0E-b9GkNWxd2uAjdnP_5ENgY0PJ-yr30sdafAJolrvceMnrfhKi0EadgJucM0zXoVebRCMJTjpqrKr-XKQy1IqC6ulIkp1FFtyVxUVwbYZwMW5m9vvKQ/s1600/dt.common.streams.StreamServer%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobvDeIBnGdAXPWvWeuCghbQE0E-b9GkNWxd2uAjdnP_5ENgY0PJ-yr30sdafAJolrvceMnrfhKi0EadgJucM0zXoVebRCMJTjpqrKr-XKQy1IqC6ulIkp1FFtyVxUVwbYZwMW5m9vvKQ/s400/dt.common.streams.StreamServer%5B1%5D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is a <a href="http://riverforest.suntimes.com/13138956-417/hemingway-home-sold-to-oak-park-couple-restoration-planned.html">photo</a> of Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home in Oak Park, Illinois. A couple with two young sons bought the house earlier this month for $525,000. The house currently is divided into three apartments, but the couple plans to restore it to a single-family home as it was in 1906 using Hemingway’s floor plans as a guide. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI46LuYQ7WTkoJ8MmdWTw8XRBJSGTLDGDP98OYrEy_QkvUt0kw0U3rV_W15Gb7cqVRgLaf4By59WCRTP8TDjfe9-waHwEDkkRSGSVrz1oGqb4V8S5M_Y_WsmvxBoXTckFQiiI4E1JYTNU/s1600/HemHouse-01_168_148_s_cy_c_c_0_0_100_bor1_c3b8a5%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI46LuYQ7WTkoJ8MmdWTw8XRBJSGTLDGDP98OYrEy_QkvUt0kw0U3rV_W15Gb7cqVRgLaf4By59WCRTP8TDjfe9-waHwEDkkRSGSVrz1oGqb4V8S5M_Y_WsmvxBoXTckFQiiI4E1JYTNU/s400/HemHouse-01_168_148_s_cy_c_c_0_0_100_bor1_c3b8a5%5B1%5D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a photo of the house in Key West, Florida where Hemingway lived with his second wife Pauline and their two sons from 1931 to 1940. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hemingway installed the first in-ground pool in Key West. Having a residential swimming pool was an incredible luxury in 1938, and this one was dug out of solid coral. The final cost was $20,000 (1938 currency). <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcirQ-0qb313318VX1oBgHmTGHIA0VMqcl1VnZR0yi7KVKvCWNAWYC7lUUqYK7jwQDt_fP2AwGUsQFtyPgWt3Dd1GtOdJdjAoWtbrVHPpdnpty-2h9vklVs_obfM2hX6vJds5dmypdhU0/s1600/HemHouse-Pool-01_288_432_100%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcirQ-0qb313318VX1oBgHmTGHIA0VMqcl1VnZR0yi7KVKvCWNAWYC7lUUqYK7jwQDt_fP2AwGUsQFtyPgWt3Dd1GtOdJdjAoWtbrVHPpdnpty-2h9vklVs_obfM2hX6vJds5dmypdhU0/s640/HemHouse-Pool-01_288_432_100%5B1%5D.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“ . . .The swimming pool is wonderful - it is very large and the water, from away under the reef, is fairly salt. Also it lights up at night - I find that each underwater bulb is five times the voltage of the one bulb in the light house across the street, so the pool must be visible to Mars - it is wonderful to swim around in a sort of green fire, one’s friends look like luminous frogs . . .” Quote from Pauline Hemingway’s friend, the poet Elizabeth Bishop</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hemingway shot the trophies that are mounted on the wall of the Key West house, which operates as a <a href="http://www.hemingwayhome.com/">museum</a>. Photos of the house have been taken from the museum's website.<o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbKTEAAXnkLBIbRK19gkczUdFB8E6tsJg8a-KBn0WZF3MCZY07hzB8ejIgfWrReDsvjkrWhPq-plvD48FRyhyPuricMIHpRka4fPHkrYyxG3S4gH_h-DTGby7MAcaKsFj2q9F88lbLBs/s1600/HEMHOUSE-rooms-07_1_538_360_100%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbKTEAAXnkLBIbRK19gkczUdFB8E6tsJg8a-KBn0WZF3MCZY07hzB8ejIgfWrReDsvjkrWhPq-plvD48FRyhyPuricMIHpRka4fPHkrYyxG3S4gH_h-DTGby7MAcaKsFj2q9F88lbLBs/s640/HEMHOUSE-rooms-07_1_538_360_100%5B1%5D.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p>Photo by <a href="http://www.transierphotography.com/">Christy Transier</a></o:p></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1940, Hemingway moved to a home in Cuba called Finca Vigia, meaning “lookout house”. Here is the library in the Cuban house, which is a museum. The photos below have been taken from the museum's <a href="http://www.hemingwaycuba.com/">website</a>.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApPjVN2sv41fyTdq4jOcePku7kZF_dvPZfwEvxLUPwPwhhYcjAHl_MPi5yb5GKquPuW_NwskN_pmfam_55M8Qygxs9N15I_J166dsuAitOVquiyVGHP2g_ZPtustWto0jkoOk6YZv0JA/s1600/finca-vigia-library%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApPjVN2sv41fyTdq4jOcePku7kZF_dvPZfwEvxLUPwPwhhYcjAHl_MPi5yb5GKquPuW_NwskN_pmfam_55M8Qygxs9N15I_J166dsuAitOVquiyVGHP2g_ZPtustWto0jkoOk6YZv0JA/s640/finca-vigia-library%5B1%5D.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The Cuban people have always respected [sic] famous writer’s choice to live in a modest town, amongst the people he fished with.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2GZYS4R22w_zamX9XMcQI8HErH4grAEgK2YsZ7wKGgS-obNNVtVkKi6tj1BpmkS2Q8ICns7jrDVCv15z1yU3pKA1m8jomqOHqSW9x08aBsmgjNGf4Kp3xb3VMw-oZUpV4riRHZ0Hag8/s1600/hemingway-with-kingfish-marlin%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2GZYS4R22w_zamX9XMcQI8HErH4grAEgK2YsZ7wKGgS-obNNVtVkKi6tj1BpmkS2Q8ICns7jrDVCv15z1yU3pKA1m8jomqOHqSW9x08aBsmgjNGf4Kp3xb3VMw-oZUpV4riRHZ0Hag8/s640/hemingway-with-kingfish-marlin%5B1%5D.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMQU4W_Bq5qQs_zyEYTla4dFQgKigwdP2E0p0vctJHSlGl5IAVgcuHfOdBsotptKUZN08xdDP8jSkhKwxQwtAIdo6Wn1y5ozT-gF_VCqvP49xQ2iKifKDYQFT3mIUgnLqqLmQNzeriv00/s1600/pilar-at-finca-vigia%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMQU4W_Bq5qQs_zyEYTla4dFQgKigwdP2E0p0vctJHSlGl5IAVgcuHfOdBsotptKUZN08xdDP8jSkhKwxQwtAIdo6Wn1y5ozT-gF_VCqvP49xQ2iKifKDYQFT3mIUgnLqqLmQNzeriv00/s640/pilar-at-finca-vigia%5B1%5D.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hemingway’s boat <em>Pilar</em> at Finca Vigia. Pilar was a nickname for Pauline Hemingway.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div>

Happy Birthday, Hemingway!

Today is my birthday. I share this day with a favorite author, Ernest Hemingway, who was born July 21, 1899 and died July 2, 1961. Hemingway...

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