American authorErnest Hemingwayhad strong ties with Cuba . He survive on the outskirts of Havana for 21 years in a house called theFinca Vigía(Lookout Farm ) , which is light on a hill overlooking the capital metropolis . From this advantage point , he wrote one of his good - known record book : The Old Man and the Sea .
Now , about 60 years after the writer ’s death , a $ 1.2 million centre dedicated to restore and protecting Hemingway ’s works has opened on the solid ground of his former home , according toThe Boston Globe . The facility haslaboratories , an air - condition burial vault , and equipment to strip and continue the artifact , many of which have been hold by Cuban authority since the 1940s and ‘ 50s .
In 1960 , a class after the Cuban rotation kicked off , Hemingway turn back to the U.S. per the American embassy ’s advice , perhaps without realizing that he would never again see his Havana dwelling house . He died by self-destruction in Idaho the next year . Back at the Lookout Farm , he left behind around 5000 photograph , 10,000 alphabetic character , and margin notes in about 9000 books from his personal program library . Hemingway biographer A. Scott Berg has said the documents were a “ CAT scan of Hemingway ’s wit . ”
“ There is Hemingway ’s copy of the screenplay forThe Old Man and the Sea , with his notations,”The New York Timesreportedof the collection in 2002 . “ There is a scrap of paper on which he jot down a profanity - laced conversation from World War II , which he apparently planned to apply in a news report , but then dismissed , writing about it , ‘ too point-blank . ’ There is the start of an epilog , later rejected , toFor Whom the Bell Tolls . ” The author “ almost obsessionally ” wrote down his weight and blood atmospheric pressure on the inside cover ofWuthering Heights .
For years , the Boston - based Finca Vigía Foundation has been working with Cuba ’s National Cultural Heritage Council to carry on these documents . The nub ’s curtain raising on March 30 has been hailed as a successful collaborative effort between the U.S. and Cuba , whose relations have been hot and cold in late yr .
“ When we occur together , when we play together , we can do incontrovertible and amazing things , ” said Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts , who was involved in the centre ’s ribbon - cutting ceremony .
[ h / tThe Boston Globe ]
