The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park

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Hemingway Reading Groups Begin in February

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park

Winter 2010 Reading Schedule

Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce

 

All Groups Meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.

Space reservations are not required. For more information contact the Hemingway Foundation at (708) 848-2222.

Wednesday, February 10: Discussion of The Old Man and The Sea, led by Redd Griffin

Wednesday, February 24: Discussion of The Old Man and The Sea, led by Redd Griffin

Wednesday, March 10: Discussion of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, led by Herb Breidenbach

Wednesday, March 24: Discussion of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, led by Herb Breidenbach

Wednesday, April 14: Discussion of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, led by Herb Breidenbach

Wednesday, April 28: Discussion of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, led by Herb Breidenbach

Hemingway Foundation Featured on Comcast Community Connection

Veterans Day Remarks Note Hemingway Connections

EHFOP Board Member Redd Griffin delivered the following remarks to veterans and friends at the Oak Park Arms on Nov. 22, 2009:

On Veterans Day we are grateful for what our veterans have done in war and peace across the years. Much can be learned from contemplating what their service was like and what it means to us today. There are many to learn from — 23.2 million as of 2008 — to be exact.

Wine Auction: Thank You!

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation held its annual wine auction benefit Oct. 4 at Pleasant Home in Oak Park. More than 75 people attended and bid on more than 100 bottles of wine to raise funds for the Foundation's educational and cultural programming. Thank you to all our participating organizations, donors, sponsors and friends for making this a successful event!

Auctioneer Jim Bohenstengel supervises the wine offerings prior to the auction.

EHFOP Board Member Lori McCarthy reads about the wines for bid.

Bidders watch the auction begin.  

EHFOP's Chuck Bednar Named Volunteer of the Year

Chuck Bednar, left, and Redd Griffin cut the ribbon on the Traveling Hemingway Exhibit at the Carl Sandburg Historic Site in Galesburg, Illinois.

Longtime EHFOP Volunteer Chuck Bednar has been honored by the Illinois Associaton of Museums with the Volunteer of the Year award for his work restoring and coordinating Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time. The traveling exhibit has been sent all over the Midwest to emphasize Hemingway's Oak Park story and his later life's work thanks to Bednar's efforts.

The IAM said in honoring him that his "unstinting donation of his time and skills has resulted in sharing Hemingway's history with the world ... the results are overwhelmingly positive and absolutely wonderful!"

The award will be presented at the IAM's annual conference awards luncheon Oct. 2.

EHFOP, Dominican Announce Partnership

A long-awaited partnership agreement to preserve and restore the Hemingway Boyhood Home was signed Friday between The Ernest Hemingway oundation of Oak Park and Dominican University.

Members of the EHFOP and Dominican, as well as State Sen. Don Harmon and Oak Park Village President David Pope, applauded as EHFOP chairman Allan Baldwin and Dominican President Donna Carroll signed the agreement. Dominican will take title and financial responsibility for the home following a two-year lease period, and will partner with the Foundation in "fostering cultural literacy and offering programming that explores Hemingway’s role as a global citizen and one of the 20th century’s most influential writers," according to the University.

Top: Baldwin and Carroll sign the partnership agreement with the Boyhood Home and their organizations behind them. Above: Oak Park Village President David Pope, Baldwin, Caroll and State Sen. Don Harmon toast the finalization of the partnership.