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Better Relations Through Hemingway Boston Globe | June 25, 2009 By Jenny Phillips and Bob Vila AS PRESIDENT OBAMA prepares to open a dialogue with Cuba, he may well want to draw lessons from the collaborations between Americans and Cubans that are already underway....

Farewell to arms: Hemingway Legacy Helps Heal 50 Years of Hate Between US and  Cuba January 31, 2009 It was a second home for one of the greats of 20th-century literature but, due to its frosty diplomatic relations with theUnited States, Ernest Hemingway's time in...

Hemingway's Cuba Letters Now at JFK Library January, 2009 BOSTON - When Gaylord Johnson Jr. was struggling with a term paper at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he figured he'd ask for help from someone who knew the material best: Ernest Hemingway. "I've read a...

Bell Tolls for Hemingway Treasures as Cuban House Caught in Sanctions Trap July 17, 2007 For the past two years, a group of American organisations has been working to restore the battered house and save the manuscripts and books. But US sanctions against Cuba have...

Cuban Embargo Hinders Efforts to Restore Hemingway Estate May 18, 2006 Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Cuba while writing The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and other works, left behind a stucco villa outside of Havana filled with furniture, artwork,...

Hemingway Project Sailing Along Smoothly: Watercraft Expert Says Cubans Doing Good Job Of Preserving The Pillar? Mystic April 4, 2006 When Dana Hewson traveled to Ernest Hemingway's former estate in Cuba last week, he was pleasantly surprised by what he found. As...

An Unprecedented Collaboration Between the U.S. and Cuba February, 2006 Following an arduous 17 hour travel day with team members meeting up on the connecting flight through Cancun, Mexico, and the usual anxiety through the customs booth in Cuba, we made a 1:00 a.m....

Papa's Legacy October 3, 2005 Don't let Hemingway's Cuban house become the last victim of the Cold War Novelist Ernest Hemingway is a national treasure - in Cuba. It's shameful the U.S. government can't get past 40 years of Cold War paranoia and help preserve the...

Embargo Hampering Restoration Effort of Hemingway Villa in Cuba September 26, 2005 San Francisco de Paula, CUBA -- The bullfighting posters have been packed away, the famous Royal typewriter stored in a dry place. His Cinzano bottle is gone, too, and his hot jazz...

Sun Also Rises on Hemingway Home: Americans, Cubans try to keep legacy September 6, 2005 Americans, Cubans try to keep legacy SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA, Cuba -- In the 44 years since Ernest Hemingway died, the beloved Cuban villa where he penned classics that won him the...

The Old Man and The Political Sea July 18, 2005 OPINION: When Ernest Hemingway died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in July 1961, it was three months after the Bay of Pigs invasion. Relations between the United States and Cuba were at the lowest point of the past 46...

Cubans, Americans Unite to Save Hemingway Home: Up Front | Cuba U.S. preservationists have offered Cuba help in shoring up Ernest Hemingway's beloved home outside of Havana The yellow-tiled room where Ernest Hemingway stood to write For Whom the Bell Tolls is empty...

Will The Bell Toll For Hemingway's Havana Home? June 7, 2005 A house sags in Havana - and not just any house, but Ernest Hemingway's favored residence, where he wrote such classics as "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea." And so, declaring the sorry...

"The World": Restoring Hemingway's Cuba Home June 6, 2005 TAMPA — Finca Vigia, or "Lookout Farm," is where Ernest Hemingway wrote the book that won him the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It's also where Hemingway settled down for two decades after living in Chicago,...

Time Taking its Toll on Hemingway Home: Saving It, Though, Will Take More Diplomacy Than Carpentry June 3, 2005 Saving It, Though, Will Take More Diplomacy Than Carpentry by Kevin Walker TAMPA — Finca Vigia, or "Lookout Farm," is where Ernest Hemingway wrote the book...

Hemingway Home in Cuba on Rescue List : HEMINGWAY HOME IN CUBA ON RESCUE LIST June 3, 2005 Ernest Hemingway's house in Cuba is falling apart, prompting the National Trust for Historic Preservation to mount a rescue campaign that has the U.S. government's OK, despite...

COX NEWSPAPERS, June 2, 2005 By BOB DART WASHINGTON – In a victory for prose over politics, preservationists announced Thursday that the Bush administration has eased the trade embargo against Cuba enough to allow at least the first steps toward saving Ernest...

NEW YORK TIMES, June 2, 2005 Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba when he wrote ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' and ''The Old Man and the Sea'' was named yesterday to the list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places, issued by the National...

REUTERS, June 2, 2005 By SUE PLEMIN WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 on Thursday of "America's Most Endangered Historic...

MUSEUMS JOURNAL, May 2005 By PATRICK STEEL An archive of unpublished writings fill Ernest Hemingway's decaying old house, now a museum, in Havana. No wonder that the building's survival is a priority, says Patrick Steel It is every curator's nightmare: your collection...