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Michigan Hemingway Society Announces Literary & History Conference Dates: October 18-20, 2019

June 25, 2019June 29, 2019 Dianna Stampfler hemingway, horton bay, michigan, nick adams, papa, Petoskey, walloon lake

The Michigan Hemingway Society (MHS) is once again hosting its annual literary and history conference, October 18-20 at The Terrace Inn in the Northern Michigan Chautauqua community of Bay View. It was here, and in the surrounding countryside and lakeshore communities that the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Ernest Hemingway, discovered his love of nature and the quite solace that can be found “Up North in Michigan.

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Michigan Hemingway Society Conference Focuses on Author’s Return Home from World War I in 1918

September 14, 2018October 17, 2018 Dianna Stampfler bay view, ccc, elk, Ernest Hemingway, ernie, hemingway, nick adams, nobel prize, northern michigan, papa, penn state, pennsylvania state university, Petoskey, pigeon river, pulitzer prize, pure michigan, Verna Kale, walloon lake, world war I

The theme for this year’s Michigan Hemingway Conference is “Hemingway and WWI” as 2018 is the centennial of his return home from Europe where he was wounded on the delta of the Piave River in Italy and then hospitalized in Milan. Dr. Verna Kale, Assistant Research Professor in English at the Pennsylvania State University, is this year’s Keynote Speaker.

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Ernest Hemingway 119th Birthday Celebration Planned for Sunday, July 22 in Petoskey, Michigan

July 11, 2018July 11, 2018 Dianna Stampfler Ernest Hemingway, michigan author, michigan hemingway, nick adams, papa, Petoskey, pure michigan, walloon lake, Windemere

(PETOSKEY, Mich)—A celebration is planned in downtown Petoskey’s Pennsylvania Park for Sunday, July 22 by The Michigan Hemingway Society to

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Daughter-in-Law of Famed Author Ernest Hemingway to share Stories with the General Public, April 28, in Walloon Lake

April 13, 2018April 17, 2018 Dianna Stampfler ernest, hemingway, horton bay, hotel walloon, last good country, nick adams, northern michigan, papa, Petoskey, pure michigan, walloon lake

Valerie Hemingway, former personal assistant for and later daughter-in-law of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author, is the guest of honor at a special program on Saturday, April 28 at t The Talcott Event Center in Walloon Lake. The event is part of a three-day “The Last Good Country: Walloon Lake, An Ernest Hemingway Occasion” weekend at the award-winning Hotel Walloon.

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Hotel Walloon presents The Last Good Country: Walloon Lake, An Ernest Hemingway Occasion

March 13, 2018April 1, 2018 Dianna Stampfler aaa, city park grill, classic literature, Ernest Hemingway, ernie, hemingway, hotel walloon, last good country, nick adams, nobel prize, northern michigan, papa, Petoskey, pulitzer prize, pure michigan, trout, walloon lake

Hotel Walloon is pleased to present The Last Good Country: Walloon Lake, an Ernest Hemingway Occasion. This third annual event celebrating Ernest Hemingway’s connection to the northern Michigan area will take place Friday, April 27 through Sunday, April 29, with special guest Valerie Hemingway, who was both a personal assistant and daughter-in-law to the late author.

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Author & Retired Kansas City Star Editor Steve Paul Headlines Michigan Hemingway Society Conference

August 8, 2017 Dianna Stampfler bay view, chautauqua, Ernest Hemingway, hemingway, kansas city star, papa, Petoskey, pure michigan, toronto star

The Michigan Hemingway Society is once again hosting its annual literary and history conference, October 6-8 at The Terrace Inn in the Northern Michigan Chautauqua community of Bay View. This year’s keynote speaker is Steve Paul, the author and editor of several books including Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year that Launched an American Legend, due out this fall.

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Petoskey Celebrates a Year of Ernest Hemingway

June 12, 2017 Dianna Stampfler bay view, Ernest Hemingway, fly fishing, hemingway, horton bay, nick adams, nobel prize, papa, perry hotel, Petoskey, pulitzer prize, pure michigan, walloon lake, winderemere

Literary and history buffs are quick to reference Chicago, Paris, Spain, Cuba, Key West and Ketchum as locales where Hemingway made an impact. Yet, it was Northern Michigan which held what some consider the most treasured place in the author’s heart. Except for a single night in 1947, when he was passing through Michigan on his way west, Hemingway never saw this region again after his September, 1921 marriage in Horton Bay to Hadley Richardson.

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Hotel Walloon presents The Last Good Country: Walloon Lake, An Ernest Hemingway Occasion

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 Dianna Stampfler aaa, boyne country, Ernest Hemingway, fishing, fly fishing, hemingway, horton bay, hotel walloon, last good country, nick adams, nobel prize, papa, Petoskey, pulitzer prize, pure michigan, trout, valerie hemingway, walloon lake, Windemere

Hotel Walloon is pleased to present The Last Good Country: Walloon Lake, the second annual event celebrating Ernest Hemingway’s connection to the northern Michigan area. The event will take place Friday, April 28th through Sunday, April 30th. The three-day event package includes two nights’ accommodation at the 32-room boutique hotel, as well as personally guided tours throughout the area and a chance to meet Valerie Hemingway, who was both a personal assistant and daughter-in-law to the late author.

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Hemingway Film Event For Tweens & Teens Planned for March 25 at Petoskey District Library

March 11, 2017March 13, 2017 Dianna Stampfler Ernest Hemingway, ernie, fishing, hemingway, horton bay, literary education, literary history, nick adams, nobel prize, papa, Petoskey, pulitzer prize, pure michigan, two hearted river, upper peninsula, walloon lake

A special program just for tweens and teens to discuss the life of young Ernest Hemingway in the local region, 1899 – 1919 – titled Saturday Morning with Ernie and Nick – will be held at the Petoskey District Library on Saturday, March 25. The 90-minute event gets underway at 10:30 am in the library’s lower level classroom.

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Hemingway Enthusiasts Trek to Petoskey for Annual Fall Historical & Literary Conference

September 13, 2016September 14, 2016 promotemi Ernest Hemingway, featured destination, hemingway conference, literary tourism, MiHemingway, nick adams, papa, perry hotel, Petoskey, pure michigan, walloon lake

The Michigan Hemingway Society is currently accepting reservations for its annual conference, October 14-16, at Stafford’s Perry Hotel in historic downtown Petoskey (a property built in 1899—the same year Hemingway was born and a place where he stayed in 1916—paying just 75 cents for his room). This year’s Michigan Hemingway Conference theme is 1919—the last year that a 20-year-old Hemingway spent in the Walloon Lake area, 10 miles southwest of Petoskey.

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Hemingway Enthusiasts Trek to Petoskey for Annual Fall Historical & Literary Conference

September 6, 2016September 7, 2016 Dianna Stampfler Ernest Hemingway, hemingway conference, literary tourism, MiHemingway, nick adams, papa, perry hotel, Petoskey, pure michigan, walloon lake