Hemingway Adventure (1999) (19 page)

Modern tourist development. Mallory Square, Key West.

Seven Mile Bridge carries the Overseas Highway through the coral islands of the Florida Keys.

The newest Sloppy Joe’s celebrates Hemingway’s 100th anniversary.

Extra large security measures inside Sloppy Joe’s.

Shine Forbes, the man who slugged Hemingway and lived to tell the tale, shows me some of Hemingway’s tricks.

Shine’s front room, an Aladdin’s cave collected over eighty-three years.

Bill Clinton the seventoed cat at the Hemingway house.

Local aficionado at the Hemingway Look-Alike competition.

The men who would be Ernest. Kevin the cop (top row, extreme left) and the Look-Alike class of ‘99. Winner gets to wear a medal inscribed ‘In Papa We Trust’. The winner was local boy ‘Big Rick’ Kirvan, bottom row extreme right.

Schmoozing with the judges.