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What you haven't heard... Issue # 16, July 2005 |
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Visitor of the month
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On July 21st in 1920 Ernest Miller Hemingway turned 21 years old. He celebrated his birthday at Walloon Lake in Upper Michigan where he had spent July and August of every summer until he was eighteen at Windemere Cottage. On his 21st birthday, after a series of conflicts, his mother evicts him from Windemere Cottage for insolence and idleness, calling him "a menace to youth."
In Decmeber Ernest Hemingway has a free-lance assignment with the Toronto Star to write feature stories from Europe and together with Hadley he boards the Leopoldina bound for France. The ship docks at Havre, France and the newly weds take a train to Paris where they stay at Hotel Jacob. |
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In
October Hemingway moved to Chicago to live with Bill Horne where he later
meets Hadley Richardson of St. Louis to whom he proposed in December of
1920. On September 3rd 1921 at Horton Bay, Hemingway married Hadley and
they moved into their Chicago apartment.