Key West Community: A good resource for local Key West information
March 27, 2007
http://keywestchronicle.blogspot.com/
A good site full of interesting perspectives on the things going on in the Key West Universe - if you want to get a feel for some of the pulse of what it's like to live in Key West - for better and for worse - this makes for a good read.
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Key West to Cuba: The Old Man By the Sea Lives On
March 26, 2007
It's really hard to miss the homage paid to Ernest Hemingway when visiting ( or living in) Key West. The references are everywhere, both obscure and overt. The Hemmingway home is a huge tourist attraction, the Hemmingway cats often larger in legend than real life. Every year the "Papa" look alike contest draws Hemmingway hacks from both near and far….:-) His literary legend extends far beyond his prose alone, for many - Jimmy Buffeet aside - no name is more synonymous and symbolic of life in the Florida Keys more so than Ernest Hemingway. (my spelling mistakes seem glaringly obvious now..
What many people don't realize - is the great affinity Hemmingway shared with Cuba - the many years he called her home - and maybe equally as striking, the perserverence of the love the Cuban country had and still holds for this American writing legend.
A great article below captures some of that - courtesy of the Pittstburg Post Gazette and Bob Hoover.
Valerie Hemingway pictured below - daughter in Law and personal assistant to Ernest almost 50 years ago!
In Cuba, following in Papa's footsteps
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Vacation in Key West: A multi-cultural perspective from paradise
March 25, 2007
Here is an interesting article from Voice of America on the Florida Keys and Key West and the unique way of life once you hit a certain spot south of Miami…….There is also an MP3 podcast of same if you visit their site.
Interesting how the universal language of blue skies, surf and sun sort of speak to everyone, no?
A Visit To the Florida Keys: Beautiful Islands In Southern FloridaIn the Keys, you can dance to reggae or Cuban rhythms, visit some favorite places of writer Ernest Hemingway, or just lie in the sun. Transcript of radio broadcast:25 March 2007 MP3 - Download Audio audio clipListen to MP3 audio clipListen in RealAudio audio clip
VOA News - A Visit To the Florida Keys: Beautiful Islands In Southern Florida
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