Finca Vigía Foundation In The Press

Listen to Senator Bill Bradley, host of American Voices on Sirius Radio, talk with Professor Sandra Spanier and Executive Director Mary-Jo Adams of the Finca Vigia Foundation about Ernest Hemingway and his Cuban Home.

Listen to two podcasts about the Finca Vigia Preservation Project produced by One True Podcast, May 2020: Congressman James McGovern, Chair of the Advisory Committee and Bob Vila, CoChair, Board of Directors.

Dr. Eusebio Leal Spangler, City Historian of Havana, died on July 31, 2020.   Dr. Leal, over many years, was supportive of our project to preserve Ernest Hemingway's legacy in Cuba. He gave wise preservation advice, at times procuring hard to find paint for the Finca,...

Matador Network, April 4, 2019 Ernest Hemingway’s Legacy Preserved in a New Center in Havana, Cuba by Eben Diskin US-Cuba relations might not be particularly warm these days, but Cuba is nonetheless opening a new conservation center in honor of one of America’s...

Smithsonian.com, April 2, 2019 New Conservation Center to Preserve Hemingway's Legacy in Cuba by Brigit Katz The facility is located at Finca Vigía, the property where Hemingway lived for more than two decades and where he wrote some of his most lauded books Finca...

The Korea Times Times, April 1, 2019 Hemingway's Legacy Shrined at New Havana Center [Photos] Objects are displayed at the Ernest Hemingway Museum during a visit of U.S. Congressman James Mcgovern (not pictured) in Havana, Cuba, March 30, 2019. Reuters-Yonhap U.S....

AP News, March 31, 2019 Center in Havana Opens to Preserve Hemingway’s Legacy U.S. Democratic congressman for the state of Massachusetts and House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Jim McGovern, center left, attends the inauguration of a conservation center in Havana,...

The Guardian, March 31, 2019 Hemingway Centre Opens in Havana to Preserve Writer's Work by Reuters Cultural project in cooperation with US showcases artefacts from writer’s stay on island. Ernest Hemingway In 1952. He wrote some of his best-known works during the 21...

Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2018 Preservation Effort Makes Hemingway's Cuba Home Look Like He Never Left by Patrick J. McDonnell "Did you see the war correspondent's uniform?" a dazzled visitor asks a companion, as both peer at a musty closet housing vintage garb, much...

NPR, WBUR's Here and Now, March 20, 2018 Listen to news segment, At Hemingway's Home Outside Havana, An Effort To Preserve Artifacts Of His Life In Cuba, on WBUR's Hear and Now. Read summary article and see pictures on WBUR »

CSPAN, April 29, 2016 Clip of House Session Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) honors the Finca Vigia Foundation, based in Massachusetts, and all who contributed to the U.S.-Cuba collaboration to restore and preserve the Cuban home of Ernest Hemingway.

Caterpillar Foundation Press Release Caterpillar Inc. and the Caterpillar Foundation today announced a $500,000 donation to The Finca Vigía Foundation, a U.S. non-profit working in collaboration with Cuban cultural preservationists and other donors to restore and preserve Ernest Hemingway’s home, documents and historical artifacts in Cuba.

NPR Weekend Edit Sunday New Conservation Effort Aims to Protect Papa's Papers Interview with Bob Vila December, 2015 It's been a year since the U.S. and Cuba began normalizing relations. Tourism, business and cultural exchanges are booming. And there is another...

Travel and Leisure Spencer Peterson, June 23, 2015 When Ernest Hemingway departed Cuba in 1960, he left behind the kind of pack rat’s stockpile a literary scholar can only be grateful for. His home of over two decades, a white stucco affair in the rural neighborhood...

Ernest Hemingway's Final Triumph in Cuba Toronto Star by Oakland Ross, Feature Writer March 30, 2015 The famous author lived on the island for 20 years. Now, efforts to preserve Hemingway’s house are proving a model for improved ties with the U.S. AN FRANCISCO DE...

The New York Times Charles McGrath, February 10, 2014 BOSTON — Ernest Hemingway was a hoarder. His own prose style may have been spare and economical, but he was unable to part with the words, printed or written, of just about anyone else. According to his fourth...

Wall Street Journal Finn-Olaf Jones, December 5, 2013 Of all the places Hemingway lived, none had such a hold on the author as his home outside Havana—now being restored through an unlikely alliance. Here, a guided tour of the Cuban haunts that shaped a literary...

Ernest Hemingway's Havana Retreat December 8, 2013 Embargo Hurts Efforts to Restore Hemingway's Cuban Legacy: Latin American Herald Tribune. He also contacted Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), who, because of his favorable relations with the Cuban government, got the ball...

"Hemingway's Papers Come to JFK Library" Boston Globe October 29, 2009 In a little-known nook of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, with a fine view five floors above Boston Harbor, lies a book-lined room with a lion skin throw rug, a scrapbook with photographs...