KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Virtually 140 bearded males who resemble Ernest Hemingway converged on Key West, the past due writer’s house all through the Thirties, to compete within the Hemingway Glance-Alike Contest that started Thursday night time.
The problem is a spotlight of the island’s Hemingway Days pageant that salutes the literary skill and adventurous lifetime of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
Right through his Key West years, Hemingway penned classics together with “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have No longer.”
The 3-night look-alike pageant is held at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, the place Hemingway steadily hung out with native and literary pals.
Intently seen via a judging panel of earlier winners together with 2022’s Jon Auvil, of Dade Town, Florida, contestants take turns pontificating and parading throughout Sloppy Joe’s degree.
Many are repeat contenders who convey their very own cheering sections, and maximum try to replica the “Papa” personality and look followed via Hemingway in his later years.
The competition’s 2d initial spherical is ready for Friday, the 124th anniversary of Hemingway’s July 21 beginning, and the 2023 winner is ready to be selected Saturday evening.
Hemingway Days continues thru Sunday with occasions together with a unusual “Operating of the Bulls” spoof, a boulevard truthful and the Key West Marlin Event that remembers the writer’s interest for Florida Keys fishing.
