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Jul 7, 2016 · Although they never wrote a story set on Nantucket, two American literature giants – Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck – both spent time on the island. In 1910 Hemingway visited for a month with his mother Grace when he was 11 years old.
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Sep 22, 2019 · While Massachusetts rarely receives significant scrutiny in Hemingway studies, his stay on Nantucket at age eleven shaped his earliest-surviving piece of fiction, a vignette entitled "My First Sea Vogue."
Jun 27, 2014 · This toy schooner, a gift to John Jr., was presented to President Kennedy on June 2, 1963 during his state visit to Italy by President Antonio Segni. Jacqueline Kennedy commissioned a Cape Cod woodcarver to create these shorebirds as a gift for her husband. President Kennedy displayed them in the Oval Office.
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Nantucket was now the whaling capital of the world, but there were more than a few islanders who had never glimpsed a whale. Nantucket had forged an economic system that no longer depended on...
Until it collapsed in 1902, the John Swain House in Polpis was acknowledged as the oldest house on Nantucket and was the subject of many nostalgic photos, paintings, and woodcarvings. It was dated to 1672 and remained in habitable condition up into the 1880s.
Apr 10, 2023 · April 10, 2023. John Hemingway - grandson of Ernest and son of Gregory -- shares his remarkable story with us. We explore John's important book, Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, his revealing and unsparing account of his life as a Hemingway.
