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Happy Hour: What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar

June 26 @ 5:00 pm6:00 pm
Livestream
United States

Shortly after Ernest Hemingway’s death in 1961, his widow, Mary Hemingway, was contacted by the owner of Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, asking her to retrieve the materials that Hemingway had stored there since he moved to Cuba in 1939. With the aid of Hemingway’s longtime Key West friends Toby…

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