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Hemingway Days Festival


The festival officially begins Tuesday, July 18, with a lecture by Rebecca Johnston, president of the Florida Hemingway Society, focusing on Hemingway’s connection to a 1935 hurricane that influenced his Key West novel “To Have and Have Not.” Among other highlights are a happy-hour presentation on Hemingway’s life in the island city by Cori Convertito, curator and historian for the Key West Art & Historical Society.

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