The Michigan Hemingway Society is proud to host its annual conference at Stafford’s Perry Hotel on October 16th, 17th, and 18th. Keynote speaker Nancy Sindelar, Ph. D., author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work, will speak on Saturday evening about the ways in which Hemingway was influenced by his early experiences in northern Michigan.
The Boston-based Finca Vigia Foundation will ship nearly $900,000 in supplies to build a state-of-the-art facility to preserve Ernest Hemingway’s books, letters and photos — the first major export of construction materials to Cuba since President Obama loosened the trade embargo on the island.
The building materials will be used to construct a 2,400-square-foot, two-story laboratory where thousands of photos, roughly 9,000 books and a huge number of letters to and from Hemingway can be treated and preserved.
