Horton Bay, Michigan, in the time of Ernest Hemingway, circa 1988-2008.

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Hartwell, James Vol. Horton Bay, Michigan, in the time of Ernest Hemingway, circa 1988-2008.

Horton Bay, Michigan, in the time of Ernest Hemingway, circa 1988-2008.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781181305

Collection consists of eleven self-produced booklets recording anecdotes of various facets of life and local history in and around the village of Horton Bay (Lower Peninsula, Michigan) where Ernest Hemingway spent the majority of his summers as a youth and where he returned after the first World War and was first married in 1921. A central theme of the collection is the people and places connected to Hemingway during his time there and those mentioned later in his writings and short stories. Much of the focus is on the author's grandfather, Vollie L. Fox, later described as the "unofficial Mayor" of Horton Bay, who taught young Hemingway to fish. In 1914, Vollie became the owner of the Horton Bay House, now known as the historic Red Fox Inn after the restauraunt he and his wife started in 1919. Also included are transcripts of oral interviews with two local Ottawa Indian residents responding to questions prompted by names, incidents, and locales described by Hemingway. The booklets are in plastic-comb bindings with photocopied paper cover sheets illustrated with vintage family photos, including several of young Ernest Hemingway. Four of the booklets contain scanned reproductions of hand-drawn maps by the author, including one showing where many of Hemingway's "Nick Adams" stories and early character sketches in "The Crossroads" are set. Three of the booklets are annotated in pencil on the table of contents page to highlight a connection to Ernest Hemingway.

0.24 cubic feet.

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