Cuba to Mark First Meeting Fidel Castro-Hemingway
The 50th anniversary of the first encounter between the Cuban revolutionary leader and US writer Ernest Hemingway, in May, 1960, will be remembered here.
Director of the House Museum Hemingway, Ada Rosa Alfonso, announced in a press conference that the date will be marked from May 12 to 15 and will recall one of the international sailfish tournaments in which they met each other.
On that occasion, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, on borrad the yacht Cristal won the first individual prize with the match of five fish at the Marina Barlovento, today Marina Hemingway, which scored 286.68 points.
The program will have as venues the Sports Fishing Center that bears the name of the Nobel Prize on Literature 1954, in Cojimar, east of the capital and Finca Vigia, where he lived for 20 years.
Alfonso said the expo-installation Hemingway, Cojimar and its fishermen will be inaugurated with pictures donated by neighbors of that town and there will be a panel discussion with the special participation of Julio Arocha, captain of the yacht Cristal.
The bar-restasurant La Terraza, in Cojimar, visited frequently by the author of For Whom the Bells Toll and his friend Gregorio Fuentes, captain of Hemingwa's yacht, will mark the 85th anniversary of its inauguration with an exhibition of paintings by three artists on his visits to this place, where he met the person who inspired him to write The Old Man and the Sea (Anselmo Hernandez).
Alfonso referred to how the relation of Hemingway with Cuba, the Revolution and its leader has been manipulated and distorted.
The narrator, she said, loved this island, lived in it previous to 1959 and expressed his confidence in the revolutionary process, when he affirmed in a letter to general Charles T. Lanham, dated in Ketchum, January 12, 1960:
"To say you are not an imperialist yankee but a kid from old San Francisco de Paula, the town where you have lived for 20 years during recent times, is not a resignation to your citizenship. I am a good American and have been fighting for my country whenever possible without payment or ambition. But I completely believe in the historic need for the Cuban Revolution..."
Director of the House Museum Hemingway, Ada Rosa Alfonso, announced in a press conference that the date will be marked from May 12 to 15 and will recall one of the international sailfish tournaments in which they met each other.
On that occasion, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, on borrad the yacht Cristal won the first individual prize with the match of five fish at the Marina Barlovento, today Marina Hemingway, which scored 286.68 points.
The program will have as venues the Sports Fishing Center that bears the name of the Nobel Prize on Literature 1954, in Cojimar, east of the capital and Finca Vigia, where he lived for 20 years.
Alfonso said the expo-installation Hemingway, Cojimar and its fishermen will be inaugurated with pictures donated by neighbors of that town and there will be a panel discussion with the special participation of Julio Arocha, captain of the yacht Cristal.
The bar-restasurant La Terraza, in Cojimar, visited frequently by the author of For Whom the Bells Toll and his friend Gregorio Fuentes, captain of Hemingwa's yacht, will mark the 85th anniversary of its inauguration with an exhibition of paintings by three artists on his visits to this place, where he met the person who inspired him to write The Old Man and the Sea (Anselmo Hernandez).
Alfonso referred to how the relation of Hemingway with Cuba, the Revolution and its leader has been manipulated and distorted.
The narrator, she said, loved this island, lived in it previous to 1959 and expressed his confidence in the revolutionary process, when he affirmed in a letter to general Charles T. Lanham, dated in Ketchum, January 12, 1960:
"To say you are not an imperialist yankee but a kid from old San Francisco de Paula, the town where you have lived for 20 years during recent times, is not a resignation to your citizenship. I am a good American and have been fighting for my country whenever possible without payment or ambition. But I completely believe in the historic need for the Cuban Revolution..."
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
29/04/2010