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Posted by Matt on August 06, 19100 at 04:32:52:
In Reply to: Re: Key Wset posted by KWT on August 04, 19100 at 04:42:16:
: : : dUDE:
: You're mixing American Air up with Pan American.
: Mason was with PAA, which pioneered routes from
: Key West to Cuba. AA never had routes to and in
: Fla. until fairly recently.
: best
: KWT
The family of Hemingway's second wife Pauline lived in Piggot, Arkansas. They were very wealthy. It was Pauline's Uncle Gus Pfeiffer who paid for the house on Whitehead St. where Hemingway lived from 1931 until 1939 or so. When Hemingway came to Key West previously, he lived in rented houses or apartments. The house on Whitehead is definitely a must see if you can get to Key West. Ever year when it got too hot in Key West, Hemingway would travel west to places like Montana and Idaho. The trip usually included a stop in Arkansas to see the in-laws. Hemingway despised the visit as much if not more than anyone else. In-law visits jeez. I remember seeing something on the web last year when all the centennial hoopla was going on about a house in Arkansas where Hemingway lived and wrote so many things. I think for the tourist trade, if Hemingway wrote a page of a book in a certain place, the ads say "he wrote such and such here." I remember reading in a bio that Hemingway said that he had to stay at a hotel in Mississippi with his first son while traveling west and he spent the whole night stting awake at a table with a pistol because he knew he was in Faulkner country. Great stuff, true or not.