Hemingway Society in Venice, 2014

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Last night of the Hemingway Conference, Venice: Negronis with our Canadian friends Neil Stubbs and Kristin Ross; Carol with Mike Pronko, our Tokyo friend who comes from Kansas City (we know his mother), and the closing dinner at Al Giardinetto. Top: the workhorse Cecil Ponder. Lower left: conference directors Mark Cirino and Mark Ott and site co-ordinator Rosella Mamoli Zorzi. Small world moment: Rosella told me one night that one of the best times of her life was the year she spent on a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

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Hemingway on Torcello and other miscellaneous shots.

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Venice meals with Hemingway friends; and a very fine lunch at Locanda Cipriani on the island of Torcello.

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Hemingway Conference reception at the Gritti Palace, Venice

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Veneto Excursion: In addition to the Ivancich estate, we visited a private hunting lodge and fish farm (Valle Gaetano, formerly the Valle Franchetti), where Hemingway did some duck hunting during his visits in the late 1940s.

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At the Ivancich family estate in the Veneto.

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Hemingway conference: speakers and panels

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Excursion to Fossalta di Piave