JULY 25, 2022:
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Some came in wool fisherman’s sweaters, and other contestants had sportsmen’s attire. But it was the cream-colored sweater of attorney Jon Auvil that caught the eye of judges who awarded him the title for most resembling author and former Key West resident Ernest Hemingway. Auvil triumphed Saturday night (July 23, 2022) over 124 other contestants for the title in the annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe’s Bar. The Key West establishment is where the author was a regular patron during his decade-long residence on the island in the 1930s. While living in Key West, Hemingway wrote classics including “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have Not.”
JULY 22, 2022:
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest has begun in Key West on the 123rd anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s July 21 birth. This year’s competition attracted 135 portly, bearded men, who are endeavoring to prove their likeness to the famed American author. The contest is a highlight of Key West’s annual Hemingway Days festivities, staged to celebrate the creative talent and colorful lifestyle of the man who lived and wrote on the island for most of the 1930s. Thursday night’s entrants paraded at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, where Hemingway and his cohorts often met for drinks, before a judging panel of former contest winners.
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