The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park

2009 Benefit Wine Auction Will Be Held October 4th

A chance to taste and buy “one of the most civilized things in the world” will occur Sunday, Oct. 4, from 3 to 6 p.m. at a wine auction in Historic Pleasant Home, 217 Home Ave., Oak Park. The event, a benefit for The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, will feature wine tasting, wines for bid, hors d’oeuvres and musical entertainment.

Proceeds from tickets and wine sales will support educational and cultural programs of The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. Tickets for the benefit are $25. Send a check made out to The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park to:

2009 Benefit Wine Auction
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
P. O. Box 2222, Oak Park, IL 60303-2222

Tickets are also on sale at the Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Avenue, or by phone at (708) 848-2222, Ext. 1#.

“This is an opportunity to sample some fine wines, bid on ones that you like, support local merchants, enjoy a few hours with friendly people, and support a worthy hometown cultural organization,” said Allan Baldwin, president of The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.

“We see the wine auction as an event Hemingway would have approved of,” Baldwin added. “Good wines mattered to him.”

Author Mark Ott Reading at Hemingway Museum August 30th

 

A Sea of Change explores the importance of Hemingway's relationship to the waters of the Gulf Stream that transformed his imaginative work. Drawing primarily on Ernest Hemingway's handwritte and unpublished fishing logs and from published and unpublished correspondence and newspaper articles, Mark P. Ott structures this literary biography chronologically to tell the story of Hemingway's life as it becomes immersed in the Gulf Stream.

Ott will read from and sign copies of A Sea of Change on Sunday, August 30th at 2 p.m. at the Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL. For more information please call (708) 848-2222 or e-mail ehfop(at)sbcglocal(dot)net .