
–street performance of The Old Man and the Sea, Cojimar, Cuba, June 2015 Wordless Wednesday

Since my earlier posts on my trip to Cuba were mostly pictures, I am providing a link about the 15th International Ernest Hemingway Colloquium recently held in Havana from June 18 to June 22, 2015 that was written by an author, scholar, and board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Nancy Sindelar.…
Lots of time on different days was spent walking around Old Havana. Looking at the buildings, going to some museums (history, rum, art), and eating and drinking at some Hemingway and other locales was what you do when you attend a Cuban Hemingway Colloquium and are on a people-to-people tour to Cuba. Here is the…

Luis Quintanilla was a Spanish artist (1893-1978) and a contemporary of Juan Gris. He got caught up in the politics of the time and served eight months in prison starting in October of 1934. Many of his artist, writer, and other intellectual friends had supported him during this time, some of whom he had met…

Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood 336 pages Picador, UK ISBN-10: 1447226860 ISBN-13: 978-1447226864 February 13, 2014 I spent last weekend reading Mrs. Hemingway. I first read the Hadley (Richardson, wife one) section in one sitting, then I read the Fife (Pauline Pfeiffer, wife two) and Martha (Gellhorn, wife three) sections in another sitting, and finally,…
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