#ehvenice2014

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.

Hemingway on Torcello and other miscellaneous shots.

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

Hemingway Conference reception at the Gritti Palace, Venice

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.

At the Ivancich family estate in the Veneto.

Hemingway conference: speakers and panels