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Hemingway Days
Key West, FL · Arts & Culture
- When
- July 20–25, 2027
- Where
- Sloppy Joe's Bar / Duval Street · Key West · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Key West marks Ernest Hemingway's birthday each July with a week of literary readings, a marlin tournament, and the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar, his old haunt. The look-alike contest alone has run for over four decades and draws bearded entrants from across the country. Events spread across Duval Street and the Hemingway Home & Museum. (Held in mid to late July; 2027 dates approximate.)
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Key West marks Ernest Hemingway's birthday each July with a week of literary readings, a marlin tournament, and the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar, his old haunt.
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Buffett drove down from Nashville broke after a failed country record, started playing bars on Duval Street for tips, and found the material he spent fifty years on.
Truman came down exhausted in November 1946 and returned eleven times for 175 days in all, running the government from a former naval station commandant's house in loud shirts.
Cuban exiles founded a school and club here in 1871, and José Martí used it to knit the independence movement together, he spoke from its steps and called it the cradle of Cuban independence.
Castro opened the port of Mariel and around 125,000 Cubans crossed in six months on anything that floated, most of them landing here where the Navy pier and the Coast Guard did the processing.