The annual Hemingway Days festival will be taking place next month (Tuesday through Sunday, July18th-23rd) in Key West, Florida. This six-day celebration features a Hemingway look-alike contest, a Key West style "Running of the Bulls," a street festival, a walking tour, and many other events. A popular spot to visit that week will be the Hemingway house and its adjoining studio, where Hemingway produced some of his most famous works. The house is now a museum, open year-round, the entrance to which can be seen in the above photograph that I took back in March of 1979, and featuring my father Nelson, mother Mary, and sister Susan. Susan and I had come down to visit our parents in Stuart, Florida, where they had retired to from Chicago three years earlier, and we decided to head down to Key West to check the place out. It was a very fun couple of days. However, I have never visited Key West during Hemingway Days, but once Susan and I take our late parents condo back from our tenants next year, it will definitely be put on the calendar. In the meantime, I will need to bulk up and grow a white beard to compete in that look-alike contest.
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