Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest begins in Florida Keys
2 min readBy Associated Press
KEW WEST: Almost 140 bearded males who resemble Ernest Hemingway converged on Key West, the late writer’s residence throughout the Nineteen Thirties, to compete within the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest that started Thursday night.
The problem is a spotlight of the island’s Hemingway Days competition that salutes the literary expertise and adventurous lifetime of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
During his Key West years, Hemingway penned classics together with “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have Not.”
The three-night look-alike competitors is held at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, the place Hemingway usually hung out with native and literary pals.
Closely noticed by a judging panel of earlier winners together with 2022’s Jon Auvil, of Dade City, Florida, contestants take turns pontificating and parading throughout Sloppy Joe’s stage.
Many are repeat contenders who convey their very own cheering sections, and most try to repeat the “Papa” persona and look adopted by Hemingway in his later years.
The contest’s second preliminary spherical is about for Friday, the 124th anniversary of Hemingway’s July 21 delivery, and the 2023 winner is about to be chosen Saturday night time.
Hemingway Days continues by means of Sunday with occasions together with a unusual “Running of the Bulls” spoof, a road truthful and the Key West Marlin Tournament that recollects the writer’s ardour for Florida Keys fishing.
KEW WEST: Almost 140 bearded males who resemble Ernest Hemingway converged on Key West, the late writer’s residence throughout the Nineteen Thirties, to compete within the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest that started Thursday night.
The problem is a spotlight of the island’s Hemingway Days competition that salutes the literary expertise and adventurous lifetime of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
During his Key West years, Hemingway penned classics together with “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have Not.”googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The three-night look-alike competitors is held at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, the place Hemingway usually hung out with native and literary pals.
Closely noticed by a judging panel of earlier winners together with 2022’s Jon Auvil, of Dade City, Florida, contestants take turns pontificating and parading throughout Sloppy Joe’s stage.
Many are repeat contenders who convey their very own cheering sections, and most try to repeat the “Papa” persona and look adopted by Hemingway in his later years.
The contest’s second preliminary spherical is about for Friday, the 124th anniversary of Hemingway’s July 21 delivery, and the 2023 winner is about to be chosen Saturday night time.
Hemingway Days continues by means of Sunday with occasions together with a unusual “Running of the Bulls” spoof, a road truthful and the Key West Marlin Tournament that recollects the writer’s ardour for Florida Keys fishing.
