April 12, 2019
San Francisco de Paula
Finca Vigía in the news...
The $1.2 million dollar conservation center built by the Boston-based Finca Vigía Foundation intended to preserve the legacy of Ernest Hemingway opened last week on the grounds of Finca Vigía, the Cuban villa on the outskirts of Havana where the novelist lived from 1939 to 1960.
https://www.wpi.edu/news/restoring-finca-vigia-hemingway-s-home-havana
The Finca Vigía Foundation was founded in 2002 by Jenny and Frank Phillips and Congressman James McGovern (MA). The late Jenny Phillips is the grandaugher of Ernest Hemingway's editor and longtime friend Maxwell Perkings. Board of Directors member Bob Vila, a Cuban-American, is well known as host of the home improvement TV program "This Old House."
https://fincafoundation.org/preservation-effort-makes-hemingways-cuba-home-look-like-he-never-left/
May 1960, only time the men met, Fidel scored first prize and won a silver trophy at Hemingway's annual marlin fishing contest.
http://www.cuba-hemingway.net/en/ernestfidel.asp
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