The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park

Save the Date: July 21st's Hemingway Birthday Celebration

Join The Ernest Hemingway Foundation on July 21, Hemingway's birthday, for a celebration featuring guest speaker, on Hemingway and poetry, John Barr of the Poetry Foundation!

You're Invited to a Special Screening Event: Hemingway & Gellhorn June 8

On Friday, June 8, join The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park and Columbia College for a special presentation of the HBO Films production Hemingway & Gellhorn, followed by a Conversation about the film with the President of HBO Films, Len Amato, and the film's executive producer, Alexandra E. Ryan. 

The event begins at 5 p.m. with a reception at Columbia College's Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash. The screening begins at 6 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public, but registrations are required: 

Birthplace Home Part of 'Oak Park Afternoon'

Join The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Pleasant Home and Cheney Mansion in a three-site tour of Oak Park's historic and literary attractions as part of Wright Plus. On Friday, June 1, tour all three buildings, in any order, with light refreshments. Tours of the Birthplace Home will be offered throughout the afternoon on a continuous basis. One-site visit cost will apply to continue on to the Museum.

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Tour the Hemingway Boyhood Home Sunday, June 3

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park will open the Hemingway Boyhood Home at 600 N. Kenilworth to visitors for the last time on Sunday, June 3 from 12-5 p.m. as part of the Oak Park Day in Our Village festivities.

This is a unique opportunity to tour the interior of this century-old home where famous author Ernest Hemingway honed his schoolboy writing skills while attending Holmes Elementary School around the corner and later Oak Park and River Forest High School.

Within a week of the open house the Foundation will turn over the keys to the home to an Oak Park family who will make it their private home.

Although there may be occasional opportunities in the future where the family can invite public visitation, this last chance to stroll through the rooms with Hemingway docents leading the way is very special. Stories about Ernest, his five siblings and parents Grace and Dr. Clarence Hemingway, living an exuberant family life from 1907 until Ernest left in 1919 and Grace left in 1936, will be memorable. This building is an international icon and few changes have been made since Grace Hemingway began planning her dream home in 1906.

Tours will be given on a first-come, first-serve basis. Advance reservations are not required, and donations to the Foundation as compensation will be appreciated.

June 28: 'To See a Thing Clearly: Exploring the Connection between Poetry and Journalism in Hemingway and Life' With PBS-TV Journalist and Poet Judith Valente

As a young writer Ernest Hemingway moved from poetry to journalism. His most poetic writing matured into fiction. Still each form of writing continued to inform his work. Judith Valente, a correspondent for national PBS-TV and former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and People magazine, made the inverse journey -- from journalism to poetry. She will talk about how both poetry and journalism intersect in Hemingway's writing, and her own, and how we might begin to see the world through a poet-journalist's eyes.
 
Thursday June 28 @ 7 p.m.
Hemingway Museum
200 N. Oak Park Avenue
Oak Park, IL
 
This program is free and open to the public. 

American Writer's Museum Debuts Online Exhibit Marking NATO, G8 Meetings

See world leaders' favorite works and recommend others -- including Hemingway! 

Hemingway History: A WWI Trunk Comes Home

This trunk, which once belonged to Hemingway friend William Dodge (Bill) Horne, Jr., was generously donated to the Hemingway Museum by grandson Bill Horne. In his words:

My grandfather, William Dodge (Bill) Horne, Jr. met Hemingway while a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross during World War I. They were stationed in Schio, Italy, and drove together on the same ambulance.

After the war they lived together in Paris, and after Hemingway's failed engagement to Agnes von Kurowsky they shared an apartment in Chicago during the fall of 1920.

They stayed lifelong friends. When Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in September, 1921, my grandfather was in the wedding party. When Hemingway died in 1961, he was an honorary pallbearer. I believe when I was born on April 6, 1958 my grandparents were visiting Hemingway in Cuba.

Above, Foundation Chairman John W. Berry displays the trunk at the 2012 Hemingway Volunteer Appreciation Event on Feb. 20. Berry also read from letters between Horne and Hemingway, detailing their early friendship and Hemingway's time in Chicago after the war.

The trunk will be displayed in the Museum. Download Bill Horne's talk to his grandson's 1975 high school class about his Hemingway friendship here: 

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