Hourglass Society
Friday, June 03, 2005
A potential site for a future Hourglass meeting...
...Classic American author Ernest Hemingway's beloved house in Cuba joined former homes of U.S. presidents and King Island in Alaska on an annual list issued Thursday of "America's Most Endangered Historic Places."
The crumbling 9-acre estate on a hill just east of Havana was left to the Cuban people after Hemingway's death from suicide in 1961 and is now a museum, housing books and manuscripts of the famed American novelist. Hemingway lived at Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm) from 1939 to 1960 and it was there he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"...
Reuters
Comments:
And I would just like to say that rainy days in june should automatically qualify as a holiday strictly reserved for listening to jazz on vinyl and reading books until you fall asleep on the couch.
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