Since 1990, focusing on the Michigan influence in Ernest Hemingway's work, especially the Nick Adams Stories. Annual Hemingway Weekend in Petoskey features speakers, readings, exhibits, and tours
of northern Michigan sites where the
Nobel Prize-winning author
spent his boyhood years.

Dates for 2008 weekend: Oct. 24-26th
Theme: Hemingway and friends

Hemingway Weekend headquarters:
Stafford's Perry Hotel, visited by Hemingway in 1916. Special rates for conferees (mention Hemingway weekend)
available until August 26: $85-$265.
Call 1-800-737-1899

New DVD available: Ernest Hemingway, A Life in Michigan, created by Central Michigan University, Michigan Council for the Humanities, and the Michigan Hemingway Society. Includes Michigan sites of his stories and life, interviews with scholars and family, historical photos. A CMU/WCMU-TV/PBS production. To order, please send $25 (includes shipping and handling) to:
Nancy Nicholson - P.O. Box 922 - Petoskey, Michigan 49770
The Great Michigan Read: This program puts a statewide focus on a single literary masterpiece. This year, it's Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories. Many resources are available to help you explore stories that are some of the author's first published works. Up North with the Hemingways is a traveling exhibit that will visit 28 communities during the Great Michigan Read. See Hemingway family artifacts, letters, unpublished manuscripts, photos.
Coming to northern Michigan? Want to tour historic Hemingway haunts?
MHS offers this guide with suggested readings.
Michigan Hemingway Society is proud to support the Ernest Hemingway collection and endowment
at CMU's Clarke Historical Library.

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