Too many automated requests from this network It seems we cannot find what you are looking for 'Havana' is on view at The Quorum in Gurgaon until November 30th. The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast that allow an abundance of natural light to filter in all images © João Carranca arched window frame letting in ample daylight both interior and exterior are entirely clad in wood architect: Madeiguincho_Atelier Madeira | @madeiguincho_atelier photographer: João Carranca | @jcarranca_photography AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style The Cuban publishing house has been active since 1985 under the artistic direction of Rolando Estévez Jordán and editorial direction of Laura Ruiz Agustina Ponce serves as the overall director of Ediciones Vigía This video gives you a chance to go inside the artists’ studio in Cuba and see them at work If you love Ernest Hemingway or the mystique of Cuba there is still time to register for a program on the restoration of Finca Vigia Hemingway’s home in Havana—a project in the making for more than 13 years that is being called a model for Cuban-U.S 11 program will feature Gladys Collazo Usallan president of the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council executive director of the Finca Vigia Foundation in Boston who will discuss how they engaged a bi-national team of architects and preservationists to restore the cultural treasure The event is free and open to the public. Registration by the end of tomorrow (Friday) is encouraged There will be a networking reception at 5:30 p.m. will provide a rare opportunity to meet stewards of the Hemingway legacy and learn more about the current state of affairs between Cuba and the U.S and hopes for future collaborations between the two countries formerly the Hemingway Preservation Foundation was founded in 2002 by Jenny and Frank Phillips and McGovern She s the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway’s editor and longtime friend McGovern says the Phillipses traveled to Cuba in 2001 and visited Hemingway’s home which had been operated as a museum since the time of his death. They toured the main house and discovered thousands of Hemingway’s documents and photographs in boxes and containers stored in the basement There were still bottles of rum Hemingway drank from in the home and daily tabs of his weight written on the walls in the bathroom McGovern says the documents were inaccessible and in danger of deterioration due to political division between the U.S and Cuba and the Phillipses enlisted his support to save the documents and to preserve the architecture of the historic property.  who accompanied President Obama on his trip to Cuba earlier this year and has long advocated for normalized relations with Cuba says Cubans had lovingly cared for the collection and house for years but they lacked funding for equipment to protect the collection and ensure its preservation “I went to Cuba more than 13 years ago and met with Fidel Castro and mentioned that Jenny accessed the house and the minister of culture gave me the green light,” McGovern says the books were on the bookshelves as they were left by Hemingway the last time he was in Cuba before he left for the U.S but there were no dehumidifiers and no screens It is a tropical climate that is harsh on documents and books.” After conversations with Cubans who had cared for the collection McGovern says they agreed to engage in a collaboration to preserve the house Copies of restored documents will go to the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston they gained the support of high-level Cuban officials who signed the agreement to undertake the preservation project Bush administration to license the project and gained support of legislators from both parties in Congress “It wasn’t easy to gain their trust because of bad experiences they had with Americans in past relationships,” McGovern explains “It was very strange because of the embargo on travel It was not the ideal time to talk about a collaboration but Jenny and Frank thought this was something important to do Hemingway was an important part of American culture and equally as important to Cuban culture We claim him as our own and when you go to Cuba The restoration effort was led by the Cubans some who have passed since the project began “The Cubans deserve the credit for making sure Hemingway’s legacy is not lost and we came in support of them we have a success story during the height of tensions between the U.S and Cuba together during the worst times in their relationship he can bring them together now during a time when we’re trying to pursue policies of reconciliation and normalize our relationship.” The nonprofit Finca Vigía Foundation’s mission is to provide research and technical assistance necessary to restore and preserve Hemingway’s home and its contents at Finca Vigía in San Francisco de Paula assistant vice president of government and community relations at WPI said the program is a great opportunity for WPI students to learn about a culture and a country that has not been open to most Americans for many years “To share this experience with our community and our students I think is a great opportunity,” Looft says “Several of us have traveled to Cuba on educational missions in the past and because of those experiences I personally think it is really important for others to learn about the beautiful Cuban people and their culture.” it is a “perfect blend of the kind of programming that WPI does so well." “We are offering students the chance to experience other cultures but in this case they are coming to us,” she says “For those who have an interest in preservation this will be a chance to have conversations with and to learn from these visitors from Cuba Maintenance of Cuban infrastructure has been deferred for a very long time and faculty and students who are interested can learn how they can be a part of the collaboration to save an iconic building and its treasured legacy.” a publishing house in the town of Matanzas began to create handbills and invitations in 1985 for local cultural events Now a collective of artists and editors who produce books by hand they thrive today in the same house on the Plaza Vigía The Special Collections Gallery at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries displayed a selection of these handmade books through March of this year These works now can be enjoyed again in the online exhibit Found in Cuba: The Ingenuity and Creativity of Ediciones Vigía Latin American and Iberian bibliographer and senior lecturer in Latin American studies they are constructed from repurposed materials: yarn mimeograph or hand-letter the text rather than print on a press The use of everyday scraps reflects the economic hardships of those who make these books “From the very first visit,” says Covington “I was struck by three things: their energy their ingenuity in making so much with so little and their intense devotion to making their country’s literature available.” Nashville, Tennessee 37240 615-322-7311 • Contact Us Vanderbilt University’s Online Privacy Notice Brazil is the fifth world's largest country with an area of more than 8.5 million square kilometers and an extensive land border representing a challenge for the authorities in the repression of criminal factions the National Border Security Program (VIGIA) was created in April 2019 as a strategy of the Ministry of Justice 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solution should ensure the fair distribution of water resources normalize relations between the two countries and restore the circulation of people and goods on both sides of the border Local October 10 The dispute has led to a series of measures including the closure of borders by the Dominican Republic since September 15 and other restrictions that have strained relations between the neighboring nations Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" “and restore the circulation of people and goods on both sides of the border”… An open border policy does not benefit the DR as evidenced by the number of illegal migrants that have come into our country and the ongoing issue with contraband and illegal smuggling… The RD closing the border entirely would be spitting in its own face Haiti is the second largest international trader with the RD The RD and Haiti bank on cross border trade to bring needed materials and produce to each other The border should be sealed of non-commercial pedestrian traffic only It should and must be open to commercial traffic I was just expressing my disapproval on having an open border without stringent immigration control the border should remain closed to all trades Haiti needs to spend its money somewhere else We should also do the same to the illegal Dominicans coming to the US The Bronx is infested with illegal Dominicans We are now seeing an influx of migrants also from the DR in NYC that is now causing our property values to go down So I guess we should treat you all the same way It should not be too difficult to work out an agreement where both countries share the water in the river on an equal basis It only requires the use of water meters .This is done in many countries` The self-destructive Haitian leave DR authorities with no other option and to provide water to Dominican and Haitian farmers Keep tge border closed and find other countries to do business with If it wasn’t for Haiti there wouldn’t be a DR Does the DR have a declaration of Independence? Even after your so called fake independance we still xame and rescue you from Spain in 1865 The island don’t belong to you fake Spanish wanna bees If the Americans have so much to say why don’t you open up your border with the Mexicans The Bronx is already infested with illegal Dominicans This really hurts the human trafficking economy The immigration police will stop deporting illegals if the dont get their cut from the border agents off the re-entries Local Tourism Economy Bavaro & Punta Cana DominicanToday.com - The Dominican Republic News Source in English The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) promotes global awareness and understanding of the work of the United Nations through its network of United Nations Information Centres (UNICs) around the world. The UN Information Centre in Rio de Janeiro engages with local audiences in Brazil Everyone stayed inside their homes in 2020 because of the pandemic and in-person learning at school in the small city of Vigia not only did she lose contact with her teachers The Municipal Secretary of Education of Vigia created a project called Active School Search that aims to find every girl or boy who is not attending classes "The Active School Search team brought back the children who dropped out of school and provided assistance to those who were at risk of dropping out because of the pandemic," explained Marcia Figueiredo operational coordinator of the Active School Search Wearing masks and taking the necessary precautions to prevent Covid-19 infection they went door-to-door to find children who were not attending school or who were struggling to learn at home who they reenrolled in the first grade to ensure that she will receive learning materials from her teacher I forget some of the things the teacher taught me," she said But each week when the teacher brings her new materials "Sometimes the teacher stays for a short while "Agata's dad and I are teaching her at home.. We're managing the best that we can," said her mother She talked about how important it is for her daughter to continue to study: "I want a bright future for her." If it were solely up to Ágata When asked what she would like to be when she grows up Ágata enthusiastically responds "a lawyer" "My favourite class is painting and drawing on the board", replied Ágata when she was asked about what she likes to study Another 81 children and teenagers in Vigia were found and reenrolled in classes by the School Active Search team principals and managers helped the children to continue to learn during the pandemic The Active School Search is a project held in collaboration with municipalities and states to address school exclusion/dropouts It was developed by UNICEF and the Union of Municipal Education Leaders (Undime) with support from the National Collegiate of Municipal Managers of Social Assistance (Congemas) and the National Council of Municipal Health Secretariats (Conasems) The initiative aims to support governments in identifying controlling and monitoring children and teenagers who are out of school or at risk of dropping out municipalities and states have concrete data that make it possible to plan develop and implement public policies that contribute to school inclusion we're not doing this work to make ourselves feel better That sort of conventional notion of what a do-gooder is We're doing this work because we are totally convinced that it's not necessary in today's wealthy world for so many people to be experiencing discomfort for so many people to be experiencing hardship for so many people to have their lives and their livelihoods imperiled.” David Nabarro has dedicated his life to global health After a long career that’s taken him from the horrors of war torn Iraq to the devastating aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami he is still spurred to action by the tremendous inequalities in global access to medical care “The thing that keeps me awake most at night is the rampant inequities in our world…We see an awful lot of needless suffering.” returns to the stage after a long absence during the COVID-19 pandemic It counts 250 children and teenagers from the favela as its performers The ballet group provides social support in a community where poverty hunger and teen pregnancy are constant issues The pandemic has put many people to the test Coronavirus has waged war not only against people's lives and well-being but has also spawned countless hoaxes and scientific falsehoods they recall a macho American writer who reveled in adventure A visit to his home in Cuba reveals a different side of the man the world calls Papa “He was a very disciplined man of habits,” said Isbel Ferreiro Deputy Director of the Hemingway Museum near Havana “He always had his driver let him out so he could walk to the house on a dirt path he called ‘The Way of the Pines.’” Hemingway’s enchanting “way of the pines” leads directly to Finca Vigía the sprawling Spanish Colonial-style villa built by Catalan architect Miguel Pascual y Baguer in 1886 approximately 10 miles outside of Havana in the town of San Francisco de Paula Set on elevated ground and surrounded by lush tropical gardens it was Hemingway’s home from 1939 until 1960 Isbel gave me a private tour of the compound because of conservation concerns and the fragility of its contents which the National Trust for Historic Preservation once included on its list of 11 most-endangered historic sites appeared to be doomed—from the unforgiving Cuban humidity and heat thanks to the efforts of the Boston-based Finca Vigía Foundation this cultural treasure’s future looks much brighter which raises funds for the house’s restoration has managed to transcend politics by appealing to Cuba’s affection for Hemingway The foundation and the Cuban government now have a collaborative agreement for the property’s restoration Because Finca Vigia (with 70,000 visitors last year) is one of Havana’s most popular tourist attractions the museum has had to prohibit visitors from entering the house people can take photos of the interior from the wide veranda Executive Director of the Finca Vigía Foundation for facilitating my visit and tour with museum staff and making this story possible Hemingway had visited Cuba for years before he came to the island in 1939 with his third wife where he’d write and drink when he wasn’t out deep-sea fishing with his Cuban buddies so when she spotted a rental advertisement for Finca Vigía she checked it out and suggested they rent it Martha did what a lot of wives would—she waited until he was out of town signed the lease and moved their belongings Paramount Pictures paid Hemingway $150,000 for the film rights to his novel “It was the first home he purchased with his own money and actually owned,” explained Isbel “Here he wrote some of his most famous books including ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ which was inspired by Gregorio Fuentes the Cuban fisherman who was his first mate When Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for the book he donated the award to the people of Cuba.” with everything inside just as Hemingway left it when he locked the door for the last time in July 1960 with high ceilings and huge windows with shutters that can be quickly closed during frequent Cuban cloudbursts Every room is a testimony to Hemingway’s man-cave aesthetic Animal skins are scattered on beautiful tiled floors; trophy heads of animals shot on safari loom from the walls; weapons are casually displayed But there is also copious evidence that the owner of this house was a cultured man who loved music and literature Hemingway’s library at Finca Vigía has nearly 9,000 books in 25 languages many with his handwritten notes in the margins; his hi-fi stereo is in the living room along with his record collection of more than 900 LPs he spent much of his time in a suite of three connected rooms—a bedroom His creative process involved pacing from room to room stopping in the bedroom to type while standing he spread his typed pages and notes on the nearby bed preferring this method to sitting at the imposing desk in the adjacent study waist-level on the bedroom bookcase; the bed has its original blue chenille bedspread The bathroom also bears evidence of Hemingway’s habits—he weighed himself every day and recorded the date and his weight on the wall near the standing floor scale Hemingway’s attachment to Finca Vigía outlasted his affection for Martha Gellhorn and Hemingway married Mary Welsh the following year and it was she who had the idea of building an observation tower close to the house so that her husband could have an office with a view of the Havana skyline Hemingway thought that the room had too many distractions and continued to write in his suite of rooms Mary moved her telescope into the tower room and often studied the heavens from there The tower eventually became the hangout for many of the Hemingways’ 50-some cats Finca Vigía’s grounds also include a large in-ground pool set in a secluded glade where the Hemingways and their guests would frequently swim in the nude but one can easily imagine the wild al fresco entertaining that took place there back in the day is a shed that houses Hemingway’s beloved 39-foot wooden fishing boat When the Hemingways left Finca Vigía in late July 1960 the house looked as if they expected to return “What writer leaves his personal papers and manuscripts spread out on a bed if he doesn’t plan to come back?” asked Isbel “It is my feeling that Hemingway intended to return but that a combination of factors prevented it The drinking had taken a toll on his physical health there was growing tension between Cuba and the U.S thinking that things would cool off and he’d be able to return Mary returned to Finca Vigía for five weeks to box up her husband’s personal papers Fidel Castro visited her to pay his respects visit hemingwaycuba.com and fincafoundation.org appears to show willingness to bequeath Finca Vigía to the ‘people of Cuba’ with the discovery of a letter in which she states that her late husband “would be pleased” that Finca Vigía be “given to the people of Cuba … as a centre for opportunities for wider education and research” Hemingway lived on the 19th-century Cuban farm for 21 years, between 1939 and 1961, writing his masterpieces The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls there as well as posthumously published works including A Moveable Feast and Islands in the Stream. He committed suicide in Idaho in 1961 but it has been unclear whether this was following the wishes of Mary Hemingway or at the insistence of the Cuban government with differing accounts from different parties The newly discovered letter sees Mary Hemingway specifically donate the Finca Vigía to the Cuban people was for twenty-five years a friend of the Pueblo of Cuba … he never took part in the politics of Cuba … he never sold any possessions of his books and his Nobel prize medal to the Virgen del Cobre,” she wrote to her husband’s friend Roberto Herrera “I believe that he would be pleased that his property … in Cuba be given to the people of Cuba … as a center for opportunities for wider education and research I hereby give to the people of Cuba this property in the hope that they will learn and profit from The letter from Mary Hemingway to to her husband Ernest’s friend Roberto Herrera Photograph: Alexander Historial Auctions©Sold this week via Alexander Historical Auctions the letter was found among the papers of Herrera “Ernest Hemingway had committed suicide in Ketchum less than two months earlier Mary backtracked and stated that after Hemingway’s suicide the Cuban government contacted her in Idaho and announced that it intended to expropriate the house These documents show that Mary did indeed intend to donate the home to the Cuban people,” said the auction house in its catalogue The handwritten note was snapped up on Wednesday for $1,100 (£716) a price well below the estimate of $2,000-$3,000 Valerie Hemingway – who was Ernest’s secretary before marrying his youngest son whom she met at the author’s funeral – went to Finca Vigía with Mary shortly after Hemingway’s death to sort through his papers She said via email that “what is being auctioned is a draft of a memo Mary intended to give to [Fidel] Castro that Roberto Herrera was going to translate As far as I can remember Mary never actually sent the memo; she gave the draft to Roberto afterwards.” Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways sees Valerie write that Mary “genuinely wanted to see her husband’s memory endure by creating a shrine of the home he loved and dedicating it to the Cuban people among whom he had lived for more than a third of his life … Mary’s first idea was that the finca would become a learning centre and to that end she wanted to leave there as complete a record of her husband’s life and most especially of his work as was prudent.” But Naomi Wood, author of the novel Mrs Hemingway, said that Mary Hemingway’s own memoir suggests the situation was not quite as straightforward. “The question is whether the Hemingway house was ‘donated’ by Mary, or coerced from her, or extracted from her via diplomacy. In all likelihood it was a mixture of all three,” she said. Read moreErnest and Mary relax on their fishing boat she uses the words ‘acquisition’ and ‘appropriation’ which suggests the takeover of Hemingway’s property was done with some unwillingness on her part rather than a donation as the auctioned letter suggests Though the auctioned letter suggests a donation though Castro does it in the most gentlemanly fashion even asking her: ‘Why don’t you stay here with us in Cuba?’” Mary Hemingway recounts a telephone conversation from the time in How it Was in which she says to a Cuban official that “I’m not sure if I wish to give you our finca as they had done to so much US property there.] Perhaps your government would give me permission to go down to remove our personal papers Would you find out and call me back tomorrow “to take the chance of recovering Ernest’s manuscripts By this time United States citizens were prohibited journeys to Cuba but the US immigration authorities in Miami gave me the exit and re-entry permits.” The author’s widow would bring back crates of papers on a shrimp boat travelling from Havana to Tampa “Mary also recounts her negotiations with Castro to remove a few paintings back to the US: including a Paul Klee and Juan Gris,” said Wood “She also manages to remove Hemingway’s wax-sealed manuscripts they’d found at the Banco Nacional Mary’s cargo left on a shrimp boat back to Tampa which was the last to have any clearance papers from the US More importantly for scholars than the nature of the deal for the Finca Vigía donation or appropriation was the fact that she managed to get those manuscripts out.” Dr Susan Beegel, editor emerita of The Hemingway Review, said the discovery of the letter – first covered in Fine Books & Collections – was “new and interesting” “It’s nice to see her thoughts on how she intended the people of Cuba to enjoy the museum – still thriving today,” said Beegal “It’s well-known that Mary deeded the Finca Vigía to the people of Cuba as was the case with other US property in Cuba but instead the Cuban government approached Mary to request the house as a gift She negotiated with them (and the Kennedy administration as well because US citizens were not allowed to visit Cuba) to be able to return and remove personal belongings and Hemingway’s manuscripts from the house in exchange for the donation.” Technical Team that designed the new restoration center executive secretary of the Ernest Hemingway Museum 2019) -- UTSA historic preservation and architecture professor William Dupont working with the Boston based Finca Vigia Foundation and many conservation experts from the U.S has been collaborating on a multi-year project to restore and enhance Finca Vigia Under Dupont’s leadership of the U.S the collaborations have led to recent completion of a climate-controlled restoration center at Finca Vigia now a museum dedicated to preservation of Hemingway’s legacy in Cuba Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía from 1939 to 1961 The property was Hemingway’s primary home and thus it is a time capsule of his life including all his belongings and thousands of priceless documents The Museo Ernest Hemingway is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Cuba today “The architectural style of the house patios and grounds is direct and unadorned,” said Dupont “not unlike Hemingway’s writing style Visitors can experience his place of creative inspiration in Cuba and observe the connections between residence and writer gaining a deeper understanding of his artistic works.” Dupont serves as the San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professor of Architecture at UTSA Drawing on a historic preservation career spanning more than three decades team in jointly designing the new restoration center with Cuban professionals also specifying construction materials supplied by the U.S team and working on construction management issues team was formed 15 years ago and includes experts in architecture disaster planning and construction management and Cuban conservators have worked collaboratively since 2002 in support for the preservation of thousands of flat documents and books in the museum’s collection US team members were carefully selected for their special skills and willingness to work under difficult conditions and committed to the project,” Dupont explained “because the Cuban professionals are highly qualified themselves provides archival storage with temperature and humidity controls for the preservation and longevity of the documents It made history as the first construction projects based in Cuba built with U.S supplies since the embargo of the early 1960’s.  The overall collaboration which included restoration of the main house completed in 2008 has been ongoing with approval of both nation’s governments since 2005 Efforts at the main house were based upon the review of hundreds of archival photographs from the Hemingway collection at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston Massachusetts as well as the Museo Hemingway’s collection more than 50% of the Hemingway collection has been conserved and can be preserved in perpetuity at the Restoration Center The Hemingway collection includes invaluable written documents photographs of the author’s trips and letters he received from and/or sent to Marlene Dietrich The collection also includes five scrapbooks created by the author.  One is a collection of Nobel Prize congratulatory telegrams from around the world.  One can also find notes with Hemingway’s favorite recipes and their preparation instructions for his kitchen staff thousands of documents have been digitized.  The original remains in Cuba but digital images are removed and brought to the Kennedy Library for Hemingway scholars and Hemingway lovers to see.  We’re not done At lot of work remains in the advanced conservation of Hemingway’s books and oversized objects such as his vast map collection” said Mary-Jo Adams Executive Director of the Finca Vigia Foundation “Quite interesting to those who study Hemingway the authors written musings are found in approximately 18% of the vast 9,000 book collection Preservation of these irreplaceable papers could not have occurred without the tremendous leadership of Professor Dupont and his team Our Foundation is incredibly grateful” said Adams some of the documents found at Finca Vigia were more than 90 years old and fragile slowly deteriorating due to the passage of time and the humid climate of Havana The overarching initiative was funded by The Ford Foundation Learn more about William Dupont Learn more about the San Antonio Conservation Society Celebrate UTSA’s 50th Anniversary and share social media posts about the 50th using the hashtag #UTSA50 Connect with UTSA online at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn Join the doctoral candidates for the Doctoral Conferreal Ceremony and celebrate their accomplishments Celebrate the graduates from the Carlos Alvarez College of Business College of Education and Human Development Margie 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Resources (INDRHI) for the construction of the La Vigía canal which Dominican soldiers would utilize for protection in the event of potential attacks by Haitians aiming to sabotage the pumping system This system is crucial for delivering water to agricultural producers in Dajabón and Montecristi Reports from local media in Haiti indicate that the Dominican government’s protective measures are hindering the sufficient flow of water to the Haitian canal sparking discontent among Haitian nationals military authorities constructed two trenches fortified with sandbags—one at the Cesfront base […] Local April 1 military authorities constructed two trenches fortified with sandbags—one at the Cesfront base bridge in Dajabón and another at the La Vigía canal intake site a third trench has recently been observed at the intake site neither civil nor military authorities have formally announced the implementation of these security measures The objective of these measures is to safeguard the installed equipment responsible for drawing water from the Massacre River and ultimately depositing it into the tributary This action comes in response to the construction of a channel by Haitians to ensure water access for Dominican producers The page you are looking for is no longer available I want to go BACK from where I came Open the HarperBazar homepage for me By Charlotte Turner | Thursday Cuban state-owned sugar producer Azcuba and Island Brands SL a wholly owned subsidiary of Cuban rum specialists The Island Rum Company signed an ‘historic joint venture agreement’ on 7 November Ron Vigia SA is Cuba’s first fully integrated rum production venture since Havana Club International formed in the 1990s The Island Rum Company was founded in 2012 by Tore Villard and Hans Christian Holst Chairman and CEO of Norwegian wine importers Arctic Beverage Co. Cuba’s main producer and supplier of sugar and alcohol Azcuba operates facilities around the country but Ron Vigia’s production will focus on Ciego de Ávila Province VALID FOR 30 YEARS will own ‘very significant maturing stocks of local rum’ which will allow it to distribute its brands around the world Ron Vigia SA President Enrique Arías says: “A small independent business with a passion for great rum The Island Rum Company aims to make wonderful crafted rums from the stocks it now part-owns available around the world “We look forward to investing in real assets in Cuba and expanding our long-term relationship with Azcuba’s experienced team.” distributed internationally by The Island Rum Company the first dry spiced spirit made with Cuban rum already available in some 20 markets; La Progresiva 13 by Vigia a dry sipping rum which launched last month; and La Progresiva 500 by Vigia a rare limited edition crafted to celebrate Havana’s 500th anniversary this month The Island Rum Company CEO Adéle Robberstad says: “The joint venture gives us an opportunity to move forward and share our passion for Cuba in every way—from new spirits to new environmental initiatives Cuba’s Minister of Construction shakes hands with The Island Rum Company Co-Founder TRBusiness Magazine is free to access. Read the latest issue now As Gardner’s car wound its way up the shrub-lined driveway she would have spotted a flat-roofed house painted a pale cream Despite being designed in the neo-classical style the house looks remarkably bright and modern; its tall windows allowing huge beams of light to flood the stone slabs that line the floors Hemingway bought it from a Frenchman in 1939 because his wife at the time had refused to spend another night in a Havana hotel room but the house remained an important fixture in Hemingway’s life – acting as a safe haven for him but also for Gardner with whom the writer became firm friends during her stay in Havana Describing Gardener’s arrival at Finca Vigia Rene recalled: “There were fifteen acres of wilderness… Still and more species of mango than anywhere else in Cuba along with dogs and chickens and cows that gave the place a friendly atmosphere.” Hemingway once said: “[Ava] was the only woman who could out drink me She could party all night at flamenco bars and go straight to the studio and look beautiful – and then do it all again the next night Today, Finca Vigia is owned by the Cuban government and is open to the public. 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' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Embed on your websiteClose×Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site<iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/06/27/saving-hemingways-cuba-home"></iframe> Ernest Hemingway is revered not only in the U.S where he spent the last 20 years of his life due to a lack of funds and preservation expertise Cubans and Americans are working together to restore it Tracy Samilton of Here & Now contributor Michigan Radio visited the island and has our story Read more via Michigan Radio.  Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker former home of writer Ernest Hemingway in Cuba The United States approved a 25,000-dollar fund to restore the former home of U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway in Cuba the entity that works with the authorities in Havana to preserve the now house-museum The money will also be used for the creation of a restoration center as well as for the maintenance and rescue of “thousands of documents along with his library with 9,000 books,” the organization added in a statement government highlights the historical and cultural value that the house represents for both Washington and Havana “Supporting Finca Vigía represents our commitment to preserving the incalculable history and shared cultural heritage that links the United States and Cuba,” highlighted Ziff co-president of the Finca Vigía Foundation underlined that this fund is the first “financial support from the U.S “Our hope is that the embassy’s support can inspire others to contribute,” Phillip added writer for more than twenty years and became the Ernest Hemingway Museum after his death on July 2 when he committed suicide by shooting himself with a hunting shotgun in Idaho (USA) Hemingway’s house in Cuba, Finca Vigía frozen in time Hemingway spent long stays between 1939 and shortly before his death at Finca Vigía where he even wrote part of some of his most famous novels a very important work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 The museum preserves a collection of more than 20,000 personal objects and documents that belonged to the novelist a typewriter where he used to write standing up with which he went out fishing and sailing in the Caribbean Sea The conversation here is moderated according to OnCuba News discussion guidelines. Please read the Comment Policy before joining the discussion OnCuba and the OnCuba logo are registered® trademarks of Fuego Enterprises OnCuba and the OnCuba logo are registered® trademarks of Fuego Enterprises Ernest Hemingway spent his boyhood summers in Michigan and the last 20 years of his life in Cuba.  Today, Finca Vigia, Hemingway’s Cuban home, is undergoing a major renovation, overseen by a Michigan construction company known for its historic renovation work The project is the first U.S.-Cuban joint construction project in at least sixty years and those involved say it was by no means a sure thing The most popular museum in all of Cuba – beloved of tourists and Cubans alike Hemingway’s estate is ten miles east of Havana on a high bluff in the town of San Francisco de Paula.  From the estate’s four-story tower you can see the city of Havana and its harbor in the distance boys play baseball on the same field where Ernest Hemingway and his sons played unlike some of the historic sites in Cuba.  That’s largely due to renovations begun in 2012 -- although U.S President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba in March resulted in some major sprucing up of the grounds Museum Director Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales says 120,000 people from around the world visit each year.  That number is almost certain to rise as tourism grows “I love my work,” she says.  “Hemingway all the time loved Cuba Finca Vigia is amazing for the world.  Hemingway was a citizen of the world.”  Alfonso gives guests a tour that starts at the home’s front entrance “And I ring the bell for you,” says Alfonso.  The sound echoes across the grounds mixing with the chattering of birds and music from a band playing classic Cuban songs The Cuban government took control of Finca Vigia in 1961 Many of the buildings acquired by the government after the revolution were split into apartments or converted into offices The house is a time capsule.  Everything is exactly as Hemingway left it the year before he died.  Books even the half-consumed bottles of liquor on the bar cart Peering in all the rooms is literary voyeurism at its best.  according to Hemingway lore; grave markers at the final resting place of his dogs (he kept the graves of his many cats a secret due to superstition); and his fishing boat Rosales’ tour includes some psychology lessons as well.  Perhaps because his mother dressed him as a girl in the first years of his life “He was a very complicated man.  At the end of his life Despite Hemingway’s status as a cherished adopted son of Cuba Finca Vigía and its treasures were in grave danger from decades of heat That changed after Jenny Phillips visited the house twelve years ago She's the granddaughter of Hemingway's famous editor says Phillips.  There was mold throughout the house “The Cubans really closed things off,” says Phillips.  “They didn't want the Yankees coming in or meddling or God forbid taking anything.” She and others, seeing the need, formed the Finca Vigia Foundation, which over time developed enough trust with Cuban architects and other experts to develop a joint U.S.-Cuban renovation team. Salvaging the house before it was too late was one of the team’s most urgent missions.  American experts in historic renovation offered technical consultation.  The Cubans did the work. And so the roof was replaced, the foundation was fixed, mold eliminated.  Today, the house appears much as it did when Hemingway left in 1960, intending to return, until depression and suicide cut short his life. Building from scratch is a bigger challenge The next goal was building a new administrative office building and an archive restoration lab on the grounds.  The lab would preserve books, documents and other artifacts, as well as provide much-needed storage space. And that’s when the project ran into trouble. Ron Staley is with Christman Company, a Lansing, Michigan construction firm known for historic renovation work. He says when the American half of the team visited, they deemed the partially-finished structures shoddy and unsafe, and they were torn down. To Staley’s American-trained eye, “They haven't built anything there (in Cuba) for 50 years - and so the skill set to build has been lost.” Safety training appears to be virtually non-existent, he says, and the lack of basic materials encourages workers to take shortcuts. Members of the Finca Vigia Foundation realized if the next phase was going to happen, the materials and expertise for the archive laboratory would have to come from the U.S. The group obtained permission from the U.S. State Department to provide more than $900,000 worth of materials, including an air conditioning system from another Michigan company, Limbach, to control the lab’s temperature and humidity.  The Cuban government, of course, also had to sign off, which Staley says at one point involved assuaging officials’ fears that the security system might offer an opportunity for the U.S. government to use the system for spying. The plan called for the Christman Company to assemble every single thing needed to build the laboratory - and send it to Cuba in shipping containers in a kit, like a Sears Roebuck house. The containers will be sent out in four separate shipments. Manuals in Spanish will show Cuban workers how to construct the lab, and a video will teach them standard American safety for construction sites. Staley says every item, from screws to tools to masonry, has to be included. “If we are short one piece of pipe, they won't have the pipe on the island,” says Staley.  “It isn't as if you can say, 'I'm gonna run down to Lowe's to get it.'  It does not exist.” When Michigan Radio was in Cuba, workers were building the new administrative office, with technical help from the Finca Vigia Foundation.    The materials are of Cuban origin, but steps have been taken to improve the quality of workmanship. But the first shipping container for the archive lab hadn't yet arrived.   That had changed when we checked in with Museum Director Ada Rosa Alfonso this week. Finally, finally, she says, the first shipping container has arrived, and it’s sitting in Cuba’s Port of Mariel. “You can imagine I am very excited!” she says.  “I’m so anxious for the materials to arrive, so the work can move forward!” Only when the container arrives at Finca Vigia will the seal will broken, and an inventory taken, under the watchful eyes of a Cuban customs official. The contents from then on will be kept under lock and key to deter pilfering, and the first American-designed, Cuban-built construction project in more than six decades will be underway. Embed on your websiteClose×Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site<iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/03/20/ernest-hemingway-havana-cuba-finca-vigia"></iframe> EmailA dog lays in front of Finca Vigía or "Lookout Farm," author Ernest Hemingway's home from 1939 to 1960 the home is where Hemingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Moveable Feast" and "Islands in the Stream." With the help of American preservationists (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)A construction crew from Detroit did something last week that might have been hard to imagine in a different era: board a plane to meet a team of Cuban architects and engineers outside Havana They gathered at a hillside home that overlooks the capital city and worked together on a project to protect literary artifacts and the personal belongings of a famous American writer The estate that belonged to Ernest Hemingway is affectionately called Finca Vigía — the lookout farm He lived there for two decades and penned some of his most famous works at the typewriter that still sits on a desk in his study "It's rustic," says Mary-Jo Adams, who leads the U.S.-based Finca Vigía Foundation, the group heading up the preservation project. "It's just a low, seven-room bungalow. Yet it's filled with everything the author collected." Hemingway was a prolific collector. Trophies from hunting trips to Africa hang on the walls: an impala, a water buffalo, a kudu's twisted horns. Thousands of books are scattered about the house. The author's beloved 38-foot fishing boat, Pilar, is still resting on dry ground in the backyard. Writer Ernest Hemingway's dining room on display at Finca Vigía, his home in Havana, Cuba. (Desmond Boylan/AP)Ernest Hemingway's dressing room at Finca Vigía (Desmond Boylan/AP)Finca Vigía appears stuck in time "It's as though he's just gone for a swim in the pool and is ready to come back." Hemingway left the country for the last time in 1960 soon after Fidel Castro's revolution upended political order in the Caribbean and around the world the Nobel Prize-winning author killed himself in Ketchum Hemingway's widow enlisted the help of Jacqueline Kennedy to bring some of his papers back to the United States The first lady had "a great respect for the arts culture and for Ernest Hemingway," Adams says decided to live in Cuba and felt like a Cuban in that difficult moment Cubans were living But most of his belongings never made it back. The Cuban government took control of the house and turned it into a museum, and the following decades were hard on the building. In 2005, the National Trust for Historic Preservation called the home one of America's most endangered historic places. "I first went there as a termite expert," Bob Vila, the TV home renovation guru who also serves on the Finca Vigía Foundation's board, said in a phone interview. "All the windows had rotted out, and they were making new wooden casement windows on-site." That first trip was in the early 2000s. With help from the Cuban government, the foundation started making renovations to the home. They also began a project to preserve the manuscripts, letters and photographs on-site. They got permission to bring U.S. tools and materials to the island, and just last week the team from Detroit was there to work with Cuban architects and engineers on a sealed vault to keep the documents preserved for generations. Books related to bullfighting displayed at Finca Vigía (Desmond Boylan/AP)The spirit of cooperation between experts from two estranged countries is "a credit to Ernest Hemingway," Adams says Today, there is little doubt how Cubans feel about the American. In Old Havana, tourists still pack the hotel where he stayed and the El Floridita bar where Hemingway downed up to a dozen daiquiris in a single sitting There's a bearded statue of "Papa" Hemingway at the Floridita, and around the city it's easy to find the famous photos of him standing face-to-face with Castro. "Hemingway was, for Cuba, a Nobel Prize," says local tour guide Luis Enrique Gonzales. He grew up a few blocks from Finca Vigía listening to stories from his grandmother, who came to the house as a girl to eat mangoes. "Hemingway opened the gates to this huge house to all the kids," he says. "That an American guy came to Cuba, decided to live in Cuba and felt like a Cuban in that difficult moment Cubans were living, it felt like a gift." This article was originally published on March 20, 2018. Peter O'Dowd Senior Editor, Here & NowPeter O’Dowd has a hand in most parts of Here & Now — producing and overseeing segments, reporting stories and occasionally filling in as host. 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group of experts from Massachusetts Members of WGBH News' Morning Edition team traveled to Cuba this past weekend where the group of preservationists from Massachusetts celebrated the opening of a conservation center at Ernest Hemingway's house in Havana the former host of the TV show “This Old House.” “This is representative of American culture and the genius of American literature located in one of the most controversial spots in the Americas,” he said “So when you think about the impact we’ve been able to have in terms of friendship [and] cultural bridge-building Vila serves as president of the Boston-based group Finca Vigía Foundation which was formed fifteen years ago to save Hemingway’s home — and the contents within it — from the effects of mother nature He said the site still has a lot of problems “The house itself sits on about 10 acres that hasn’t really been managed or controlled in decades,” Vila said being done in collaboration with the Cuban group Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural And experts like Vila say they now have access to tools and resources they’ve never had before The whole project got its start back in 2001 when Frank Phillips and his late wife Jenny first visited the writer’s home “When we went to the Hemingway house … she asked one of the curators whether there were any letters from her grandfather to Hemingway,” Phillips said The curator said they did have the letters but told the couple that they could not see them “Having been Jenny’s husband for 51-and-a-half years Jenny kicked off the effort that culminated this past weekend with the dedication of a new paper conservation center on the property which will help to preserve Hemingway’s personal papers Many of the writer’s manuscripts have been cataloged in digital form at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston which is home to the largest Hemingway collection in the world it might seem odd that his work is housed at the library the library’s Hemingway scholar in residence said it’s not so strange when you learn more about the unique history between the writer and the president “I call it a tale of two widows,” she said Justice explained that Hemingway and Kennedy never met but the connection began when Kennedy asked Hemingway for permission to use the writer’s definition of courage for his autobiography And after Hemingway’s suicide in July of 1961 the president gave Mary Hemingway special permission to retrieve personal items from their home in Havana which was otherwise off-limits to Americans Following President Kennedy’s assassination Mary Hemingway offered her late husband’s papers to be included in the yet-to-be-built JFK Library and wrote to Mary saying she’d be proud to include the papers in the library An entire wing was dedicated to those papers When Jenny and Frank Phillips showed up at the house back in 2001 they found his belongings were still untouched Frank recalled the visceral effect of seeing the writer’s artifacts “I remember when we were first allowed in the house "Jenny sniffed some of the clothes and swore she smelled Hemingway.” Getting the project up and running at the Havana property wasn’t easy restoration required an agreement between the two governments One was formed in 2002 with the support of Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern and Fidel Castro and it brought two politically-opposed nations together to preserve the legacy of a literary legend who called both the U.S Hemingway lived in many different countries around the world but he lived in Cuba longer than anywhere else executive director of the museum at Finca Vigía showed Morning Edition around the home where Hemingway finished writing “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” it was a success,” she explained as she walked through the home which looked almost exactly as it did when Hemingway was there “Paramount Pictures made a movie… [They] paid Hemingway $150,000 — a lot of money at that time … What he did It’s also where he wrote his most successful and widely published novel Izbel took us to a room filled with records and an old record player “[There are] more than a hundred records … Mozart She put a record on and let the house fill with sound “It’s a beautiful house,” Frank Phillips said ‘Morning Edition on the Road’ in Cuba is made possible with support from the Museum of Science The front door of Hemingway's home on the outskirts of Havana The office off the bedroom is still full of books Ernest Hemingway recorded his weight next to a scale in the bathroom at Finca Vigia in Havana Hemingway's fishing boat Pilar sits covered and on display on the grounds of Finca Vigia in Havana The closet of Ernest Hemingway at Finca Vigia in Havana Students line the road to watch a reenactment of Fidel Castro's victory march into Havana on Jan Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” at Finca Vigia – a book he first thought to write as a short story in 1939 after hearing a story of a fisherman who fought a swordfish for four days and four nights in his skiff alone He finally wrote the story in 1950 and it is saturated Autumn Phillips is editor in chief of The Post and Courier. Over the coming year, she will take readers traveling around the world and teach them how to write about the experience. Learn more at Post and Courier Travel You aren’t allowed to go inside Hemingway’s house in Cuba The doors are open and you can look inside But to preserve it all – the books still on the shelves in every room the pencil markings on the wall in the bathroom from Hemingway recording his weight when his health was failing – visitors are kept at a distance It creates a feeling of voyeurism as the staff watch you looking in windows craning to see the desk and the artwork and the vintage taxidermy The house is kept exactly the way it was when Hemingway died It’s an archeological site of sorts – in situ – for us to imagine the writer who represents so many things to so many people A Los Angeles Times article said there are 9,000 books still in the home and researchers have been poring over the notes and thoughts written in the margins built to maximize the view and now to immortalize Hemingway’s typewriter even if he didn’t do much writing in there so you hand your camera to a woman who takes careful pictures of everything – framing each one She handed me my phone back with the photos on it and blew me a kiss as I left There’s an empty pool “where Ava Gardner swam naked,” the guide said as we walked by “This place doesn’t mean anything to Cubans but Americans all want to see it when they come.” we drove 30 minutes from our hotel in El Vedado The day Fidel Castro arrived in Havana at the end of a 550-mile victory march Our timing was perfect as we turned a corner and saw the streets lined with workers and students green Jeeps slowly moved through the streets The annual reenactment of Castro’s march starts in Santiago on Jan I was struck by the aura of celebrity about Finca Vigia that house on the hill with a sweeping view of Havana in the distance I’ve seen that front door with the wide dramatic steps so many times in photos and movies – most memorably in the movie “Hemingway and Gellhorn,” the romance and marriage that led to the purchase of the place I thought of all the places that have been set aside to remember Hemingway I used to live in Idaho and the towns and rooms around Sun Valley are dripping with Hemingway lore we stayed at the Stanley Hotel in Nairobi for no other reason than I wanted to see the place where he wrote “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” having seen now the flaking varnish on the stern of Hemingway’s Pilar and green patina on the brass fishing rod gimbal I paused to think of what I remembered from the first time I read it – a class assignment in high school I remembered the old man coming into shore with the skeleton of a giant fish I remembered him walking into his shack and going to sleep I didn’t remember the description of the fisherman drinking coffee from a condensed milk can or that he slept on newspapers to cover the springs in his cot I didn’t remember how the line cut his hand as he fought the fish I didn’t understand what it was like to be defeated and to be pitied and to be misunderstood and how much knowledge Hemingway poured into those 60 pages – everything he knew about the Cuban coast and fishing and being That book was wasted on me in the first reading but I wouldn’t cheat anyone of reading it until they are ready I sat with Polly Buxton in her bookstore last week to talk about Cuba and books and how reading is both a kind of traveling and also a necessary part of actually traveling It helps you see the things that no one will point out and explains things through the story of a man and a fish that you can’t put into words any other way A Cuban doctor told us that we can’t possibly understand the Cuban people I haven’t stopped thinking about that since she said it and I said that to Polly I answered that there is so much of himself written inside “Old Man and the Sea” that I should know Hemingway Finca Vigia is like that and like most Americans going to Cuba We go to Hemingway’s house even though it is and isn’t Cuban to understand something personal to hold up a mirror to ourselves while looking out at the world Autumn Phillips is editor in chief of The Post and Courier. Over the coming year, she will take readers traveling around the world and teach them how to write about the experience. Learn more at Post and Courier Travel. Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: A 2014 La Casa del Habano and Habanos Specialist exclusive as well a new packaging format for the thickest Trinidad have arrived in the Swiss market The Romeo y Julieta Cedros de Luxe was a 2014 announcement but only recently began shipping to La Casa del Habanos It’s a 5 3/5 x 50 robusto extra with a factory name of Gorditos The Trinidad Vigia is now available in tubos girthy petit robusto measuring 4 3/10 inches long with a 54 ring gauge a vitola known as the Torres and the thickest that has ever been released as part of the Trinidad marca The Partagás No.1 Maduro also arrived in the Swiss market after the La Casa del Habano in Montreal announced they received the cigar last week It’s a 5 1/8 x 52 robusto that is being limited to La Casa del Habano and Habanos Specialists I strive to capture the essence of a cigar and the people behind them in my work – every cigar you light up is the culmination of the work of countless people and often represents generations of struggle and stories it’s about so much more than the cigar – it’s about the story behind it the experience of enjoying the work of artisans and the way that a good cigar can bring people together I’m the public address announcer for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks during spring training as well as for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League and previously the Arizona Rattlers of the Indoor Football League I also work in a number of roles for Major League Baseball I covered the Phoenix and national cigar scene for Examiner.com When Cuban-American photographer Hugo Fernández visited Hemingway’s house in Cuba for the first time in 2016 he felt frustrated that he couldn’t go inside the rooms It was impossible to enter them because each door was cordoned off and it was only possible to observe the Finca Vigía surrounding it It was then that he decided to photograph the spaces and build a single photo from multiple images a way to better capture the details that no one could have access to He took more than eight photographs in each space mentally dividing them in different quadrants he used the Photoshop merging technique to create unique panoramic images based on several shots of the most emblematic places of the U.S “I’ve always been captivated by Hemingway’s history such as Harris Bar or Shakespeare and Company So I couldn’t stop myself from visiting his house in Cuba,” said Fernández when I discovered that people can’t enter his house in Cuba (to preserve the museum and the objects in the rooms) but only observe from the doors and windows I thought it was important to capture those spaces as best as possible so that others could see them better,” he explained who is also a professor at the City University of New York drove from New York to Florida to transport his photos he exhibited his collection in the Glenn Hubert Library of the Florida International University together with the Cuban Research Institute The photos were later donated to the university One of them shows the interior of a room supposedly prepared for the writer to work in it which was only inhabited by Hemingway’s numerous cats Fernández discovered during his investigations In Cuba there is no trace of the descendants of those cats, but Fernández explains that the writer’s house in Key West still has in its surroundings the successors of Hemingway’s favorite pets, “famous cats because many have six fingers on the front paws “I do not have plans to photograph that house because the personal objects are in showcases and the things have been conserved as an exhibition where time froze and it seems that Hemingway is going to enter at any moment,” said Fernandez During his research process and the forming of the exhibition about Hemingway’s house is considered “Hemingway’s Cuban son.” shared a book about his father’s memories with the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature “The book and the conversations with Raúl helped me to better understand the spaces and the history behind them,” said Fernández you can notice the places where the different images interpose to form one the titles of the books still can’t be seen since there are details that are very difficult to capture from so far away,” said Fernández The exhibition was organized according to the order of what is found in Vigía Then you pass through several of the main house’s rooms the swimming pool and the place where the yacht Pilar is located “Someday I would like to return and take other photos but with the intention of making a book of photographs His next project is to materialize an idea that has been going around in his head for a long time: to capture in 360 degrees and with 3D technology the different rooms of Hemingway’s house who could visit the place virtually and access more information from that part of Hemingway’s life and the museum could use it for 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Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience Ernest Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía for two decades before leaving the country in the early 1960s An Effort To Preserve Artifacts Of His Life In Cuba A construction crew from Detroit did something last week that might have been hard to imagine in a different era: board a plane to meet a team of Cuban architects and engineers outside Havana The estate that belonged to Ernest Hemingway is affectionately called Finca Vigía — the lookout farm “It’s rustic,” says Mary-Jo Adams, who leads the U.S.-based Finca Vigía Foundation the group heading up the preservation project Yet it’s filled with everything the author collected.” Trophies from hunting trips to Africa hang on the walls: an impala Thousands of books are scattered about the house is still resting on dry ground in the backyard “It’s as though he’s just gone for a swim in the pool and is ready to come back.” soon after Fidel Castro’s revolution upended political order in the Caribbean and around the world Hemingway’s widow enlisted the help of Jacqueline Kennedy to bring some of his papers back to the United States The first lady had “a great respect for the arts culture and for Ernest Hemingway,” Adams says But most of his belongings never made it back. The Cuban government took control of the house and turned it into a museum, and the following decades were hard on the building. In 2005, the National Trust for Historic Preservation called the home one of America’s most endangered historic places “I first went there as a termite expert,” Bob Vila the TV home renovation guru who also serves on the Finca Vigía Foundation’s board and they were making new wooden casement windows on-site.” the foundation started making renovations to the home They also began a project to preserve the manuscripts and just last week the team from Detroit was there to work with Cuban architects and engineers on a sealed vault to keep the documents preserved for generations The spirit of cooperation between experts from two estranged countries is “a credit to Ernest Hemingway,” Adams says There’s a bearded statue of “Papa” Hemingway at the Floridita, and around the city it’s easy to find the famous photos of him standing face-to-face with Castro a Nobel Prize,” says local tour guide Luis Enrique Gonzales He grew up a few blocks from Finca Vigía listening to stories from his grandmother who came to the house as a girl to eat mangoes “Hemingway opened the gates to this huge house to all the kids,” he says Harvard researcher Ari Ne'eman says the policy shifts underway under the Trump administration pose a unique threat to people with disabilities but that they've fought for rights before and won Israel's cabinet approved a plan to limit the way life-saving aid is distributed in Gaza Diddy's trial begins today wth jury selection who faces criminal charges for sex trafficking racketeering conspiracy and transporting to engage in prostitution Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon atmospheric reentry Expect to see a focus on menswear: jackets For three decades the NIH has led 'Safe to Sleep,' helping parents reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related injuries The NIH cuts come as cases have been rising More than 80 people fell into a river when strong winds hit the scenic area in Guizhou province late Sunday afternoon The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S the archbishop of New York who is friendly with Trump said "it wasn't good" and that he hoped Trump had nothing to do with it The president says a third term is "not something I'm looking to do," and the U.S French police say they rescued the father of a wealthy crypto entrepreneur the second ransom case linked to the crypto world this year Israel said it would retaliate after four people were injured and flights temporarily suspended Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK LibraryAssociated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's life foundation is working with Cuba to preserve more of Hemingway's papers books and belongings that have been kept at his home near Havana since he died in 1961 James McGovern of Massachusetts and the Boston-based Finca Vigia Foundation announced that 2,000 digital copies of Hemingway papers and materials will be transferred to Boston's John F has been able to examine these items from the writer's Cuban estate The records include passports showing Hemingway's travels and letters commenting on such works as his 1954 Nobel Prize-winning "The Old Man and the Sea." An earlier digitization effort that opened 3,000 Hemingway files in 2008 uncovered fragments of manuscripts including an alternate ending to "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and corrected proofs of "The Old Man and the Sea." The newest trove includes some of Hemingway's personal correspondence including a letter that literary critic Malcolm Cowley wrote to Hemingway about the award-winning book "'The Old Man and the Sea' is pretty marvelous," Cowley wrote American poet and writer Archibald MacLeish wrote a telegram in 1940 after the publication of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," praising Hemingway's work "The word great had stopped meaning anything in this language until your book," MacLeish wrote I'm proud to have shared any part of your sky." Hemingway typed a confidential note in 1941 saying he wanted her to play a lead role opposite Gary Cooper in a film of "For Whom the Bell Tolls "There is no one that I would rather see do it and I have consistently refused all suggestions that I endorse other people for the role," he wrote in the note and kept a carbon copy founded the Finca Vigia Foundation in 2004 after a visit to Havana She saw Hemingway's home falling into disrepair and became aware of the many records kept in a damp basement at the estate Treasury and State departments to send conservators and archivists to Cuba to help save the literary records and to help train Cuban archivists The newly digitized files include handwritten letters to his wife notations of hurricane sightings and handwritten notebooks full of weather observations "This is the flotsam and jetsam of a writer's life — it's his life and his work," Phillips said "All these bits and pieces get assembled in a big puzzle." Restoration work continues at Hemingway's Finca Vigia estate in Cuba A new building is being constructed with library-quality atmospheric controls to house the writer's books and original records a Hemingway researcher and English professor at Penn State has reviewed the latest release of documents and said they will help biographers and historians create a fuller portrait of Hemingway "While there's no one single bombshell document these new details add texture and nuance to our understanding of the man," she said "Hemingway was an eyewitness to 20th century history Documents found in Cuba reveal more about Hemingway's role in World War II from his days as a war correspondent during the Battle of the Bulge embassy in Havana to patrol the north coast of Cubain his fishing boat Phillips said scholars had been trying for years to see what was left behind in Cuba Phillips spent time negotiating on both the Cuban and American sides to gain access to the collection "Because of the political situation between the two countries the Cubans held on very fast to what they had there," she said one-of-a-kind collaboration between the two countries." The Kennedy Library holds a large Hemingway collection of more than 100,000 pages of writings and 10,000 photographs because Jacqueline Kennedy helped arrange a place for the items Kennedy helped arrange for her visit to take Hemingway's possessions back to the United States Mary Hemingway took a boatload of materials back to the U.S. burned some records deemed sensitive and left thousands of other volumes and documents at the home near Havana an advocate of normalizing relations between the U.S said the collaboration over a shared interest in Hemingway could help ease tensions between the two countries literature and culture can bring people together," McGovern said This shows we can actually engage in successful collaborations with the Cubans." Cuba – “Did you see the war correspondent’s uniform?” a dazzled visitor asks a companion as both peer at a musty closet housing vintage garb alluding to the jaunty footwear invoking Gatsby revelry amid the khaki attire and lace-up boots Such scenes unfold daily at one of Cuba’s most popular tourist destinations – Finca Vigia (Lookout Estate) the 12-acre villa that was the longtime residence of Ernest Hemingway It’s the place that the restless ex-pat author called home longer than any other Finca Vigia now houses the government-run Hemingway Museum drawing “Papa” aficionados from across the globe The conservation project – including the grounds and thousands of Hemingway papers – stands out as a singular example of cooperation between longtime adversaries The museum is also the centerpiece of Cuba’s lucrative Hemingway industry continues to play an outsized role on the communist-run island long at odds with Washington the finca was in disarray – the roof sagging thousands of documents languishing in basement storage – but the place has been painstakingly restored to 1950s period glory Bacardi and other bottles line a tray next to his favorite chair trophies of hunts in Africa and the American West stare down from walls also adorned with bullfight posters and a ceramic plate bearing a glazed bovine likeness courtesy of the writer’s onetime Paris pal Pablo Picasso The novelist’s Royal typewriter rests atop a bedroom bookcase seemingly primed for the imminent touch of an author who famously found inspiration while standing up Then there are the books: some 9,000 – almost one-fifth with Hemingway’s personal scribblings – line shelves found in most every room is the preservation effort’s core: now-safeguarded manuscripts Hemingway – trailblazer of the spare prose style – was a pack rat Hemingway initially moved here in 1939 with Martha Gellhorn an acclaimed war correspondent who would become his third wife bar-hopping lifestyle based in Old Havana hotels She apparently responded to a classified ad for rental of the then-ramshackle estate in the outskirts of San Francisco de Paula Hemingway later bought the place with proceeds from the Hollywood sale of the rights to “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” his signature Spanish Civil War novel Hemingway spent much of the 1940s and 1950s at the estate with Mary Welsh Hemingway a former Time magazine correspondent and his fourth Hemingway would be done with his 500 words or so a day by late morning and already planning a fishing expedition or a jaunt into town “For many of the years that I visited Havana I never thought of my father as a working writer,” observed his youngest son “Papa.” “By the time I made it up to the big house around ten (a.m.) Hemingway put final touches on “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and penned his comeback Pulitzer-winning and Nobel-clinching Cuban fisherman’s saga “The Old Man and the Sea,” among other works Ernest and Mary Hemingway decamped from Cuba in July 1960 in the aftermath of the Fidel Castro-led revolution a distraught but determined Mary went back to retrieve the couple’s possessions securing special permission from the Kennedy administration following Washington’s cutoff of ties with Havana Castro personally came to the finca and vowed to help Mary Hemingway left Cuba for good with as much documentation artwork and ephemera that she could stuff into a Florida-bound shrimp boat which became the property of the Cuban government Preservationists pushed for a binational rescue operation But they faced resistance on two fronts: U.S and Cuban worries about appropriation of a part of the island’s cultural heritage “The Cubans’ fear was that the Americans were going to take things away from them,” recalled Jenny Phillips a cultural anthropologist who helped spearhead the preservation project in 2001-02 She brought impeccable pedigree: Phillips is the granddaughter of Maxwell Perkins the legendary editor who worked closely with Hemingway and contemporaries Phillips is co-president of the Finca Vigia Foundation a Boston-based nonprofit that has used about $2 million in donations for preservation efforts permission to bring in experts and materials from the United States More than 10,000 documents have been preserved along with 4,500 photographs and five Hemingway scrapbooks The now-protected originals remain in Cuba while digital copies are collected at the John F available to the public and to researchers the Hemingway enterprise is both a cash cow and a kind of affirmation of the revolution – which played out practically at his doorstep The celebrated chronicler of war maintained his distance but an unofficial campaign has sought to transform him retroactively into a Castro aficionado apart from the sometimes crass commercialization – a gift shop at the finca hawks mugs T-shirts and even snow-globes – many Cubans seem genuinely proud of the author’s undisputed affection for the island He sometimes called himself a “plain” Cuban His gold Nobel medallion remains in the safekeeping of a Cuban Catholic shrine a gift from the writer to the people of Cuba Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below Gifts processed in this system are tax deductible Get the day’s top entertainment headlines delivered to your inbox Thursday afternoons © Copyright 2025, The Spokesman-Review | Community Guidelines | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy Ernest Hemingway inspired many Latin American writers Perhaps none more than Gabriel García Márquez Márquez was walking in Paris in the spring of 1957 when he saw Gabriel García Márquez recounts this moment as he passed with his wife Mary Welsh on the Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris one rainy spring day in 1957 He walked on the other side of the street toward the Luxembourg Gardens The only thing that didn’t look as if it belonged to him was a pair of metal-rimmed glasses which gave him a premature grandfatherly air I found myself divided between my two competing roles I didn’t know whether to ask him for an interview or cross the avenue to express my unqualified admiration for him I spoke the same rudimentary English I speak to this day and I wasn’t very sure about his bullfighter’s Spanish I didn’t do either of the things that could have spoiled that moment but instead cupped both hands over my mouth and yelled from one sidewalk to the other: ‘Maeeestro!’ Ernest Hemingway understood that there could be no other master amid the multitude of students raised his hand and shouted to me in Castilian in a very childish voice His first trip to the island was in April 1934 with his second wife located on the small hill of San Francisco de Paula Hemingway’s preferred places in Cuba were the room 511 in the Hotel Ambos Mundos where he sometimes secluded himself to write and where he had some of his romantic adventures Writer Victoria Brooks comments that one of his conquests was 22-year-old Jane Mason heir to a fortune and founder and manager of Pan American Airways “What’s a man supposed to do when a beautiful woman comes in and he’s lying there with a big stiff?” Hemingway frequently visited the bar Floridita and the restaurant Bodeguita del Medio The latter was also a favorite of Errol Flynn The daiquiri “Papa Hemingway” that he invented is still a specialty at the Floridita: two lines of rum a hit of lemon and two servings of crushed ice Hemingway wrote Across the River and Into the Trees Gulf Islands and Cuba’s iconic novel The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway said he found the literary tone he had sought all his life That book won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and catapulted him to the Nobel Prize in October 1954 he received it for his “mastery of the art of storytelling which was recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea and the influence it has exerted on contemporary style,” which consisted of simple sentences and simple syntax because my works were conceived and created in Cuba Hemingway brought a new energy and style to American writing He learned it from his years as a newspaper man at the Kansas City Star when he wrote police and emergency-room stories not negative.” Hemingway used these precepts in his own writing and acknowledged his debt to the Star saying that they were “the best rules I ever learned in the business of writing.” Hemingway called his style the “iceberg theory” where the facts float on water and the support structure and symbolism operate out of sight Many critics tried to find a hidden symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea All the symbolism that people say is shit.” In his last years Hemingway was besieged by alcoholism and disease he suffered from hereditary haemochromatosis a disease where there is an excessive accumulation of iron in the body tissues that culminates in physical and mental deterioration Both his sister Ursula and his brother Leicester also committed suicide he was treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the psychiatric section of St he tried to walk into the moving propeller he attempted suicide twice with a gun kept in a vestibule rack in his house “What do you think happens to a man going on 62 when he realizes that he can never write the books and stories he promised himself Or do any of the other things he promised himself in the good days?” In an interview with George Plimpton for The Paris Review “Once writing has become the main vice and the greatest pleasure only death can end it.” As he wrote in *The Old Man and the Sea A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Maybe those were his thoughts when he ended his life in Ketchum Comfortable within the confines of Old Havana Ernest Hemingway was not initially keen on his wife's plan to move the couple to the nearby Cuban countryside But the novelist quickly grew smitten with the mango-filled estate of Finca Vigia When it came time for stateside medical treatment years later he expected to soon return and left the stucco villa frozen in time from half-drunk gin bottles to betting slips for cockfights Hemingway fatally shot himself a year later in Idaho and the Cuban government converted his former house to a museum carefully tending to the property but lacking the resources for proper conservation That changed with an American partnership in 2005 and further evolved recently with a four-year funding commitment from EMC Corp. "The opportunity to have our preservation and restoration program associated with a world-class figure kind of goes along with us being a global company," said Joel Schwartz a senior vice president who has visited the estate and knocked off a few more books from his Hemingway reading list EMC's Heritage Trust has provided money to save documents and artifacts worldwide with awards this year that include efforts to digitize rare books in India threatened manuscripts in China and a motley collection of notes from an early traveling physician in Rochester While EMC was approached by a group called the Finca Vigia Foundation the grant can be traced back to the 1939 decision by Hemingway's third wife to move her husband away from the temptations of Havana and rent the estate but eventually agreed to buy the rental with royalties from the film version of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," believing it helped his writing he completed "A Moveable Feast," the Pulitzer-winning "The Old Man and the Sea" and other works between trips abroad Hemingway went to America for medical treatment in 1960 Estate visitors would later remark they felt like the late author was about to round the corner Kennedy's help in retrieving papers from the estate which she had donated to Cuba and Fidel Castro's new government She later donated Hemingway items to the John F visited Cuba and finagled a rare tour of Finca Vigia While the Cuban government had sought to care for the estate both countries love Hemingway their scarce resources were no match for a tropical climate and hurricanes The couple also saw the need to preserve Hemingway's 9,000-book library and the boxes of documents they discovered in the basement but also everyday items like grocery lists known for his support of ending the American embargo and travel ban Together they formed the Finca Vigia Foundation which has used cultural exemptions in the American laws to work with Cuba in saving the Hemingway estate because I believe it's a tiny piece of diplomacy," said Mary-Jo Adams a foundation spokeswoman EMC also thinks its support could provide an opening in Cuba should relations with the United States change the foundation and Cuba had worked to preserve and restore the house They also scanned many of the documents at Finca Vigia with the originals remaining in the island nation and each partner getting a digital replica or a microfilm version The foundation's copies are deposited at the JFK Library the initiative can now tackle the more complicated documents and artifacts While they can't be accessed by the public because of copyright additional digital copies will be stored in the company's electronic "cloud" in case of disaster Scholars believe the collecting choices and notes will provide new insights into his creative process "Finca Vigia is a missing piece of the puzzle," Penn State professor Sandra Spanier has told EMC (Michael Morton can be reached at mmorton@cnc.com or 508-626-4338.) 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comfortable."Photo courtesy William DupontThe main living area of Hemingway's Finca Vigia is a comfortable room with tile floors lots of books and a few of the writer's animal trophies.Photo courtesy William DupontA plaque outside Hemingway’s home in Cuba./Courtesy Finca VigiaHemingway’s Royal typewriter sits on a large dictionary on a bookcase in his bedroom typically in the mornings./Photo courtesy William DupontThe Tower was built for Ernest Hemingway by Martha Gelhorn his 3rd wife.Photo courtesy William DupontPilar is also on display at the Finca Vigia site.Photo courtesy William DupontUTSA architect William Dupont has made numerous trips to Cuba to consult on the restoration of Hemingway’s house Finca Vigia Dupont (center) meets with Cuban colleagues outside the house.Photo courtesy William DupontWilliam Dupont (center white shirt) is shown in the basement of Hemingway’s house with Cuban and American colleagues in 2012 working on the architectural design of the new conservation facility.Photo courtesy William DupontErnest Hemingway and his wife Mary at Finca Vigia in 1948./Courtesy photoHemingway is shown with his wife Mary Welsh in this March 14 The couple married in Havana.Associated PressA worker walks in the dining room of Finca Vigia the former home of late American writer Ernest Hemingway.Javier Galeano /Associated PressAuthor Ernest Hemingway is shown in his 50s in this undated photo./Associated PressHundreds of Hemingway’s books including some in which he wrote notes in the margins will be preserved at Finca Vigia.Jorge Rey /Getty ImagesHemingway’s Royal typewriter sits on a large dictionary on a bookcase in his bedroom typically in the mornings.Jorge Rey /Getty ImagesCuban leader Fidel Castro (right) was a great admirer of American author Ernest Hemingway they talk at seaside after Castro won the individual championship in the annual Hemingway Anglers Tournament on May 15 1960./Associated PressA rendering of what will be the new conservation workshop and storage facility at Finca Vigia the Museo Hemingway outside Havana.Courtesy Manuel A ambassador to Cuba drove 9 miles outside Havana to Finca Vigía to inform Ernest Hemingway that Washington was planning to sever ties with Fidel Castro’s fledgling Communist government He said that “American officials thought it would be best if Hemingway demonstrated his patriotism by giving up his beloved tropical home,” Valerie Hemingway his secretary at the time and future daughter-in-law recalled in a 2007 article for Smithsonian magazine and it became a museum — the Museo Hemingway — in 1963 Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía from 1939 to 1960 and wrote seven books there including “The Old Man and the Sea,” “A Moveable Feast” and “Islands in the Stream.” Kept just as it was it remains one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country “It’s a virtual time capsule,” said William Dupont professor of architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio who for the past 11 years has been a hands-on consultant on the restoration of Hemingway’s Cuba home His Royal typewriter is there in the bedroom as is the animal-skin rug that he stood on while he worked He got a gift from the Russian ambassador that is still there in conjunction with the Massachusetts-based Finca Vigía Foundation completed a $1 million restoration of the 1886 stucco home and grounds in 2008 and has been searching for a way to conserve the thousands of documents photographs and books at the site for years In a concrete example of the thawing of U.S./Cuban relations initiated by President Obama a team of preservationists including Dupont who is director of the UTSA Center for Cultural Sustainability will return to Cuba May 8-13 to help Cuban architects engineers and workers build a new conservation workshop and storage center on the Finca Vigía site executive director of the Finca Vigía Foundation said Dupont “has helped our project make great strides His finesse and understanding of the Cuban people has been incredibly important.” What is groundbreaking about this exchange is that a shipment of construction materials valued at more than $900,000 is going to the island along with the American expertise Funded primarily by the Caterpillar Foundation and Caterpillar Inc. it’s the first major export of construction materials to Cuba since the U.S “It’s a big deal for the Cubans,” Dupont said which donated $500,000 to the Finca Vigía Foundation “is proud to be a part of this significant project and we’re committed to being a business and cultural partner with Cuba,” Doug Oberhelman “We recognize the importance of preserving the rich Hemingway heritage that unites the American and Cuban people.” Since materials can be impossible to obtain in Cuba the shipment will contain virtually everything needed to build the 2,200-square-foot facility which will house conservation laboratories and a state-of-the-art “They have plenty of concrete and cement blocks,” Dupont said so what we’re sending them is pretty much everything else so we’re building it here and then disassembling it to make sure we have all the parts.” Although the building is not an architectural “postcard,” Dupont said it represents the literal preservation of Hemingway’s legacy including correspondence and books in which he wrote marginalia comments records and notes of where he was at certain times “It’s possible to reconstruct a lot of details of his life and place him in particular areas connected to what he’s writing so it’s very valuable to scholars of Hemingway,” Dupont said what we’re keeping our focus on is the legacy of Hemingway because his spirit still occupies the landscape and the buildings and the grounds This was his place of artistic inspiration and you gain a better understanding by visiting it And that’s what I’m trying to help my colleagues in Cuba to preserve these watercolors offer a different and genuine look to the present Cuba where past and present are interrelated to many of the scenarios that nourished Hemingway’s imagination and some of his best literary works James Richards’s artistic work goes through many creative frontiers whose work interests and projects include urban design and landscape architecture in a creative form He is also associate professor of the Architecture School of the University of Texas in Arlington and a well-known design professor of different workshops at international level Richards is co-founder and principal of TOWNSCAPE Inc. He is member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and in 2014 the Society conferred him the Bradford Williams medal for his artistic creativity and contributions The sample precedes the celebration of the Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium biennial event that gathers several international level experts in the study and preservation of the cultural heritage related to this famous North American writer