Posted on 06/22/2016 4:29:29 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Finca Vigia, the house where Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba, is now a museum restored to its original state with help from a foundation in the United States.
Much of the funding came from major U.S. corporations including Caterpillar, Ford, AT&T and American Express.
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For more than half a century, his works have been stored in hot, humid conditions at risk from damp, mold and termites. This new conservation building is the first construction project in Cuba using modern U.S. building materials since 1950’s.
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Times are changing.
We need to assist Cuba in FREEDOM!!With Marines!!
Maybe the cubians can unnationalize it...
I use to not care too much about Hemingway’s writings until I ran across a news dispatch about an incident in the Spanich civil war that he turned into a piece of literature. I was amazed.
He also thought all those college professors who searched for hidden meanings and symbolism in his novels were nuts.
I like” Old man and the Sea” .
“The old man and the sea” is the most perfect novel I ever read in my life. That book is just absolute pure genius, like it wasn’t written by a man but by a man who tapped into the voice of God. I must have read it hundreds of times since the 1970s. Some people think Hemingway was commenting on the critics of his work, but I think he was commenting on socialism, communism.
Not holding my breath. I grew up around Cuban refugees, my old man’s secretary got out with her two kids, her husband died on the Isle of Pines. Wasn’t til I was in the army sitting through one of those godawful briefings that I understood the geopolitics— Look at a map, Cuba is a natural choke point for all maritime traffic (exports, agricultural at the time) flowing down the Mississippi River through New Orleans and out of Port of Tampa. Control Cuba and you control the cheapest way America exports its ag products.
On the other hand, it is possible to take a boat out of Georgetown, C.I., and fish off Cienfuegos. Its like the Keys used to be.
A lot of interest from Alabama (roofing materials) and Arkansas (chickens- read Tyson) in opening Cuba up.
Hemingway must have been a great genius to be such a horrible person in so many ways, and yet somehow to manage to be lovable to many and beloved by so many people.
Lionize a guy who was a supporter of the Reds in the Spanish Civil War and finally offed himself. A real role model.
Hemingway used to summer here, in northern Michigan,in Walloon Lake, and the tiny town of Horton Bay, where he learned how to swim.He also used to visit here , Charlevoix, occasionally.
I thought we played a part in preserving his home YEARS ago....maybe through his relatives.
Don’t forget his screwed up kids:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/GregoryHemingwayObits.html
I don’t have any illusions about the guy, but he could write. The country could do with clear, sparse prose right about now. A modern George Orwell would be nice, with Hemingway’s syntax.
Ernest Hemingway was a Very Bad Russian Spy and was being watch by the FBI ,so Boom he killed himself
Uhm no. Use Cubans.
A Cuban friend and I were driving down a major highway connecting Havana with Pinar del Rio when he pointed out the up coming overpass. It was just a freestanding structure with no ramps or even a road bed. With the ground at the bottom it was simply a rectangle over the highway. You could see sky as we passed under. He explained that when the Russians left the construction had stopped, people just pulled across the median if they needed to cross. We passed under several more of these on the trip.
He told me that the Cubans said these abandoned overpasses were like communism; no beginning, no end, and no purpose.
You beat me to it. In addition to his support of the Reds in Spain in the 30s Hemingway was a contributor to the Communist magazine "The New Masses" and was an early supporter and friend of Castro.
In short he was a Leftist cretin whose writing became critically acclaimed because he toed the Party line.
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