Table of Contents Welcome 6 Tim Greene— Chairman, The Key West Marlin Tournament 8 Tyler Hopf — Director, The Key West Marlin Tournament
Hemingway Days 2018 36 Hemingway Days Welcome 38 38th Annual Hemingway Days Key West Marlin Tournament 42 Hemingway © Look-Alike Contest 10 Schedule of Events 12 Sponsor Recognition 14 Tournament Rules 18 The Inspiring Authors of Keys Angling 24 History of The Tournament
44 Hemingway Days Caribbean Street Fair 46 5k Sunset Run & Paddleboard Race 48 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 50 “We are the Bobcats” by Jackie Mohan Florida Keys & Key West 54 Key West’s Rich Literary Tradition 30 You Belong in the Keys if... 56 Hemingway Days Schedule of Events 32 The Code of the Keys 66 Advertisers Index
Published By: The Key West Marlin Tournament, Inc.; Tim Greene, Chairman Contributing Writers or Editors: Lorian Hemingway, Carol Shaughnessy, Katharine Roach, Tim Greene Program Design & Production: Sandy Husmann | Thank You To: Lorian Hemingway, Carol Shaughnessy, and our loyal sponsors and advertisers Cover design by Cliff Burks. Special thank you to cover artist Stephen Muldoon (see pages 7 & 49).
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Welcome Great Fishing and Exciting Times!
would like to welcome you to the 2018 Havana Club Key West Marlin Tournament! We are delighted to have you join us for another exciting Iand challenging tournament, full of great fishing, fun, food, entertainment, and friends.
This year marks the 36th anniversary of the Key West Marlin Tournament! We appreciate the loyal following of the anglers and the sponsors, which have made this a true world-class event. Since 1982 when Norman Wood started the annual tournament, we have seen many thrilling and action-packed days of sport fishing, and have countless stories and memories to cherish.
This year we would also like to welcome Tyler Hopf as our new Tournament Co-Director. Tyler brings a commitment and passion to our tournament and a dedication to it’s continuation as a premier sport fishing event. Welcome Tyler!
Everything excluding our Awards Banquet and Silent Auction (held at the beautiful Margaritaville Resort & Marina) will be held at The Waterfront Brewery; a craft brewery located on the historic Key West Bight with a great beer selection, a full food menu, and the best views in Key West!
We are grateful again this year to our title sponsor Havana Club Puerto Rican Rum. Havana Club rums are premium, aged rums, distilled and finely crafted in Puerto Rico, comprised of Havana Club Añejo Blanco and Havana Club Añejo Clásico.
Our television show will again be produced under the direction of Fernando Barta and his great team of videographers. It takes great skill to capture all of the excitement of this tournament, and we thank them for their dedication and for the outstanding program that airs each year on Fox Sports Networks.
Each year the tournament takes place during the Hemingway Days Festival and we wish to encourage you to take part in the many events surrounding this annual celebration of the great author’s life and works. From the Papa Hemingway Look-alike Contest to the Caribbean Street Fair, there is something for everyone, and we are happy to be a part of this extraordinary festival.
I would like to thank you all for your participation in our tournament this year, and would like you to join me in thanking our fine sponsors, without whom this tournament would not be possible. Havana Club, Margaritaville Key West Resort & Marina, Stay in Costa Rica, First State Bank, The Waterfront Brewery, Conch Harbor Marina and the Monroe County Tourist Development Council.
To good fishing and great friends,
Tim Greene, Tournament Chairman
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-- Welcome From The Co-Directors
t is with great honor and pleasure we welcome you to the 2018 Havana Club Key West Marlin Tournament!! We are excited for Iyou to join us in our 36th annual world class premier fishing tournament, full of excitement, food, entertainment, and great competition amongst friends.
Once again we would like to welcome our Title Sponsor – Havana Club Puerto Rican Rum – the “anglers’ choice” fishing rum. The Havana Club recipe was created by the Arechabala family in 1878 and originally produced in Cuba. The same family recipe is being used TYER HOPF today to produce Havana Club Anejo Blanco and Havana Club Anejo Tournament Co-Director Clasico. The Havana Club Rums are distilled and aged under Caribbean sun for a period of 1-3 years in oak barrels. The aged rums are then blended together and the blend is aged a second time in oak barrels for a period of 2-3 months. The outcome is a finely crafted premium rum with a history as rich as its’ flavor!
Our television show The Hemingway Challenge continues to be a hit, highlighting the talents of our producer Fernando Barta, as well as the terrific video you provide from each of your boats during the tournament. This year we will again give an award for the best video, so be sure to turn yours in even if it’s not of the winning fish.
Our four-day tournament will feature all the favorites from our Fish Fry and Banquet, to exciting auction and raffles. Please check out the schedule of events so that you won’t miss any of the fun and SCOTT GREENE fellowship! Tournament Co-Director
Again welcome, and thank you for your commitment to be with us, and please join with us to give a thank you to our fine sponsors
Good luck and Tight Lines! Tyler Hopf Tyler Hopf Scott Greene Tournament Co-Director Tournament Co-Director
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Schedule of
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4-6 PM — 7:20 AM — 7:30AM — 7:30AM — Boats leave control Tournament Boats assemble Boats leave control area area for Day 3 fishing for traditional Bimini Start for Day 2 fishing Registration 8:30 AM — Lines in the water (The Waterfront Brewery— 1st floor game room) 7:30 AM — Bimini Start 8:30 AM — 3PM — Lines out of the water Lines in the water 3-5 PM — Weigh In 8:30 AM — 6-7 PM — (The Waterfront Brewery— Lines in the water 4PM — dockside) Captain’s Meeting Lines out of the water (The Waterfront Brewery— 4 PM — 6:30-7:30 PM — 3rd floor roof deck) Lines out of the water 4-6 PM — Weigh In Awards Banquet Cocktails (The Waterfront Brewery— (Margaritaville Key West 7-8 PM — 4-6 PM — Weigh In dockside) Resort & Marina) Auction and Raffle (The Waterfront Brewery— 6:30-8:30 PM — Silent (The Waterfront Brewery— dockside) 6:30-8PM — Auction (Margaritaville Key Dockside Cocktails 3rd floor roof deck) West Resort & Marina) 6:30-8 PM — and Fish Fry Island Pig Roast and (The Waterfront Brewery— 7:30 PM — Awards Banquet Cocktail Party 3rd floor roof deck ) Dinner and Awards (The Waterfront Brewery— (Margaritaville Key West 3rd floor roof deck) Resort & Marina) PRIZE DISTRIBUTION $50,000 In Cash Prizes MARLIN DOLPHIN TUNA WAHOO
FIRST PLACE ...... $ 25,000 ...... $ 5,000 ...... $ 750 ...... $ 750 SECOND PLACE ...... $ 10,000 ...... $ 1,500 ...... $ 350 ...... $ 350 THIRD PLACE ...... $ 5,000 ...... $ 1,000 ...... $ 150 ...... $ 150
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he dates for the 2018 Havana Club Key West e-mail your name, address, phone, and e- mail Marlin Tournament have been selected. Please address to [email protected] . You can now Tmark your calendar for July 17 thru July 20, 2019, and register and pay for the tournament on-line and plan to join us for another great tournament. If you obtain all the information, pictures and merchandise would like to be added to our mailing list and/or through the website. Please join us next year for a receive a brochure for next year’s tournament, please great tournament.
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11 Tournament Thanks Major Sponsors of the 2018 Havana Club Key West Marlin Tournament
The 2018 Havana Club Key West Marlin Tournament thanks all of it’s sponsors and those companies contributing Raffle and Auction items.
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13 Tournament Rules Havana Club Key West Marlin Tournament Official Tournament Rules All Decisions By Rules Committee Will Be Final
TOURNAMENT Bait — Bait may be obtained by Entries will be accepted up until BOUNDARIES, DATES any means before commencement the start of the Captains’ Meeting & TIMES of fishing hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 at The Waterfront Brewery, 3rd p.m. During fishing hours boats floor deck, on Wednesday, July 18, Fishing will be on Thursday, may catch their own bait but may 2018 at 6:00pm. July 19; Friday, July 20, and not obtain bait from any other ENTRY REFUSAL : The Saturday July 21, 2018. There are boat. Tournament Committee reserves geographical boundary limits as GENERAL RULES: the right to refuse tournament follows; External boundary applications or entry from any limits: E81º 0”; N25º 0”; W82º 1. Fishing must be performed prospective entrant with or 40”; S23 º 40”. The controlled daily in accordance with principles of without cause in its sole discretion. departure location will be in the good sportsmanship, and in Entrants and/or entrants pro- Lower Keys Area. Boats must compliance with these and IGFA posing to fish on boats that have assemble each morning inside rules as published in the ‘2008 been barred from other fishing the reef line between Looe Key Edition’ of the IGFA World Record tournaments can expect to have Reef off Big Pine Key and Sand Game Fishes' book under their entry rejected. Any applicant Key Light off Key West. The ‘International Angling Rules’. refused entry shall be entitled to a Committee Boat will broadcast refund of entry fee. over VHF Channel 78 at 7:30 a.m. a 2. This is a boat event. Each signal authorizing all boats to boat participating must pay an 4. THIS IS AN OPEN depart the assembly area. Boats entry fee of $1800 which allows two EVENT: Professional Guides, must pass through the controlled anglers to fish in the tournament Captains, and Mates are eligible to assembly area after 7:30 a.m. and and provides two additional social participate as anglers. before they begin fishing. Boats privileges. There is no maximum 5. All tackle must meet must remain in the water i.e. NOT number of anglers per boat but specifications for each category. transported in any manner to each additional angler must pay another location. Dates and times $200 to enter. Angler substitutions 6. Angler must hook and are final. There is no weather day. may be made but must be called in On Thursday July 20, boats are play fish without help. Rod, reel to the Committee Boat before and line must not be touched by requested to assemble at 7:20 a.m. ‘Lines in the Water’ each day. Boats anyone until the leader is brought in the area of the airport marker for may only be changed as a result of within the grasp of the angler, a traditional bimini start. mechanical breakdown and the other angler, captain or mate at 8:30 a.m. — Lines in the Water on a change must receive prior approval which time more than one person Radio Signal from the Committee of the Rules Committee. There is no is permitted to hold the leader. Boat maximum number of lines in the water. 7. Fish injured or mutilated 4:00 p.m. — Lines out of the Water are not eligible. on a Radio Signal from the 3. ENTRIES: Entries must be Committee Boat postmarked or received by June 8. Double line, if used, must 15, 2018 to be eligible for the early leave rod tip during the fight and On Saturday July 21, lines out of entry fee of $1,800. After June 15, fish must be fought most of the the water will be at 3:00pm . 2018, the entry fee will be $2,100. time on specified class line.
14 9. Line Test Limits: It is the subject to and must pass responsibility of the angler to polygraph testing. Refusal to take insure that the proper test line is the test will result in used. Line test limits disqualification. must be adhered to. Polygraph tests will Manufacturer's stated include questions on test line is a maximum angling and release of 130#. Lower test procedures and species line may be used, but of fish. Polygraph tests no bonus is awarded are final and winners for using lower test are not official until line. all test results are completed. 10. Beginning January 1, 2008 , anglers 4. RELEASE— fishing from HMS Proper release tech- permitted vessels and niques must be used. participating in Release is official only billfish tournaments if the following con- must use only non- ditions are met: offset circle hooks A. For blue marlin, when deploying natural bait or fish. In the event that a camera white marlin, spearfish, and natural bait artificial lure malfunctions or some other sailfish—ALL billfish MUST be combinations. Tournament unusual circumstance results in released. anglers may deploy “J” hooks no photographs, the angler may with artificial lures. petition the Rules Committee to B. Fish must be fought on the have his catch allowed. The specified class line (i.e. the double VALIDATION Rules Committee may request line and the leader must leave the REQUIREMENTS special polygraph tests or other reel) for the majority of the time corroborating evidence that the fish is hooked-up. 1. PHOTOGRAPHS—Each would help validate the catch. boat will provide their own The decision of the Rules C. The fish must be brought video camera in order to record Committee is final . close enough to the boat for the the fish during the fight and mate, angler, or captain to touch before the release showing the 2. LINE / LURE—Boats the leader (and photo should be mate’s hand on the leader. The which have caught and released a taken of the fish at this time) to tournament will provide each target species must turn in the qualify as a catch and release. boat with a series of validation camera, along with the leader, or a After the leader has been touched, sheets that each morning will be portion thereof, the double line, the angler may continue to fight instructed by the committee boat and at least 10' (ten feet) of the the fish in an effort to tag it. If a photo of the designed sheet single line closest to the double possible, multiple photos of the which will precede all other line after each day’s fishing. fish, angler, and tag should be photos of that day. The boat must Cameras and line must be turned taken. There are no additional provide to the weigh master a in at the weigh station, Waterfront points for tagged fish. means to download the camera Brewery, dockside, within two to the official records of the and one-half (2 ½) hours after the COMMUNICATIONS & tournament, this can be achieved Committee Boat calls for ‘Lines REPORTING by either having a removable out of the water’ but no later than 5pm on the final day of fishing. sim card or having a cord to 1. The Committee Boat will download to a computer. All fish monitor VHF Channel 78. caught and released should be 3. POLYGRAPH— All photographed several times winning teams may be subject to 2. All boats must report during the fight and at the time and must pass polygraph testing. ‘Hook-ups’ and ‘Releases’ to the of release. Failure to photograph Refusal to take the test will result Committee Boat at the time of the a fish may result in dis- in disqualification. Any person occurrence, identifying the species qualification of that particular aboard the boat may also be and the Anglers name. Reports
15 Tournament Rules in the Fun Fish Division. continued Minimum weight for these species is 15 pounds. All dolphin, wahoo, and tuna, must be may be relayed by another boat or deposit will not be refunded. The weighed at the Conch Republic may be by telephone if the decision of the Rules Committee Seafood Company in the Historic will be final. reporting boat cannot reach the Seaport within two and one-half (2 1/2) hours after the Committee Committee Boat. SCORING SYSTEM Boat calls for 'Lines out of the 3. If any boat is ‘Hooked-up’ 1. Blue marlin score 400 points Water'. An exception to this rule at the time the Committee Boat for a release. Any blue marlin killed will be allowed in the event that a calls for ‘Lines out of the Water’, for record consideration will also 'Hook-up' was reaffirmed with the boat must reaffirm the ‘Hook- receive 400 points provided it the Committee Boat at the time of up’ with the Committee Boat. weighs a minimum of 600 pounds. 'Lines out of the Water' in which If a blue marlin is killed for record case the fish may be weighed in 4. Cameras and line must be consideration and weighs less than up to two and one-half (2 1/2) 600 pounds it scores zero points. hours after the fish boated time submitted within two and one- 1 reported to the Committee Boat half (2 ⁄ 2 ) hours after the 2. All white marlin releases score but no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Committee Boat calls for ‘Lines 400 points. final day of fishing. Boats out of the Water’. An exception to wishing to weigh-in dolphin, this rule will be allowed in the 3. All spearfish releases score wahoo, or tuna should notify the event that a ‘Hook-up’ was 400 points. Committee Boat that they are reaffirmed with the Committee bringing in a fish to weigh. Boat at the time of ‘Lines out of the 4. One fun fish per day can be Wahoo, dolphin, and tuna may be Water’ in which case the camera entered for additional points as transported to the weigh station and line may be submitted up to follows: by land or by sea, thus allowing 1 two and one-half ( 2 ⁄2) hours after boats fishing out of Big Pine and the Release time reported to the SAILFISH — release 50 points the Lower Keys to return to their Committee Boat but no later than (must turn in camera). home dock and bring their fish to 5:00 p.m. on the final day of fishing. to the Waterfront Brewery by car DOLPHIN — 1 point per pound. or truck. The Weighmaster's ACTS OR SITUATIONS i.e. 38.5 pounds scores 38.5 announced weight at the time of THAT WILL DISQUALIFY points. weigh-in will be entered into the A RELEASE: record as the official weight and WAHOO — 1 point per pound. the Captain and/or Angler will be Any violation of these Rules or asked to witness the weight. In violation of the guidelines as TUNA , YELLOWFIN, the event of a tie, the boat with published in the ‘2009 Edition’ of BLACKFIN, and SKIPJACK — the earliest fish weighed in will the ‘IGFA World Record Game 1 point per pound. be the higher placed boat. It is not Fishes’ book under ‘Angling necessary to turn in camera, line, Regulations’ will disqualify a Minimum weight on dolphin, and leader for these fish except fish. If an angler has a fish wahoo and tuna is 15 pounds. for sailfish release where the disqualified he/she may attempt video must be turned in. to catch another fish of that 5. In the event of a tie on points, TOURNAMENT WINNERS species during the tournament the boat with the earliest catch or timetable. All decisions of the release time on their last scored fish 1. Cash prizes totaling Rules Committee are final. will be the higher placed boat. $40,000 will be awarded to the PROTEST three boats with the highest points 6. Boats entered in the Marlin in accordance with the Tournament All protests must be in writing Division of the Havana Club Key Scoring System. and submitted to the Rules West Marlin Tournament may pay Committee on the day of the an additional $300 entry fee to 2. Cash prizes totaling alleged violation with a deposit of compete for a total of $10,000 in $10,000 will be awarded for the $500.00. If the alleged violation is cash prizes for the three heaviest three heaviest dolphin, tuna and upheld, the deposit will be dolphin, wahoo, and t una wahoo weighed in by the boats refunded. If not upheld, the (yellowfin, blackfin, and skipjack), entered in the Fun Fish Division.
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17 Inspiring Authors of Fiction and Nonfiction Keys Angling
he sport fish and game fish searching for giant marlin in the was arguably Western novelist that inhabit Keys waters waters between Key West and Zane Grey, who arrived in the don’t just provide targets Cuba with comrades including early 1900s and stayed at the Tfor eager anglers. For decades, Joe Russell, founder/owner of the Long Key Fishing Camp, a resort they have also provided island’s iconic Sloppy Joe’s Bar. built by Henry Flagler. significant inspiration for local Encounters with oceanic “big Grey often fished with local and visiting writers — from game” found their way into his guide Bill Partea and reportedly Ernest Hemingway and Zane books, from “To Have and Have missed only two Keys fishing Grey to contemporary Not,” set in Depression-era Key seasons from 1911 through 1926. angler/authors such as Jeffrey West, to the Pulitzer Prize– In his 1919 pamphlet, “Tales Cardenas and Jim Sharpe. winning “Old Man and the Sea.” of Fishes,” Grey introduced a Hemingway, who lived and Hemingway may have helped worldwide audience to “Gulf wrote in Key West throughout the popularize Florida Keys fishing Stream Fishing,” describing the 1930s, discovered big game through his literary output, but he use of light tackle to catch sailfish fishing in the Florida Keys. When wasn’t the first notable author and kingfish off the Keys. It was he wasn’t penning literary who developed a passion for the the first time sailfish were classics, he often could be found area’s angling opportunities. That presented as a worthy game-
18 fish target. operating the Lower Keys’ Sea Grey, who co-founded the Boots Charters, writing for legendary Long Key Fishing acclaimed fishing publications Club, also made a lasting and hosting regional radio and contribution to the Keys fishery Fish,” described by notable writer television shows on angling. by being one of the first anglers to Peter Matthiessen as “delightful His invaluable reference book embrace a catch-and-release ethic. — fine observation of marine on dolphin covers the species’ A sign at the club recommend ed natural history.” Cardenas also life and habits, behavior, bag limits: “2 SAIL FISH, 5 wrote a collection of essays about environmental influences and a TARPON, 6 KING FISH, 6 saltwater fly fishing titled “Sea wealth of fishing techniques GROUPER” and added, “Any Level: Adventures of a Saltwater garnered from Sharpe’s extensive Fish Caught Above The Number Angler” as well as pieces for experience. Of Each Above Specified Should magazines including Time and As they did in the days of Be Carefully Returned To The Outside. Hemingway and Grey, today the Water.” Few writers, however, have Florida Keys waters have a strong Contemporary Keys angler/ delved as deeply into their appeal for fiction and nonfiction authors include Jeffrey Cardenas, subject as Captain Jim Sharpe, writers. Whether they crave also a photographer and author of “Dolphin: The Perfect material for a book, the renowned flats guide who has Gamefish.” adrenaline rush of battling a spent several decades fishing and Born and raised in Miami, finned foe or the satisfaction of drawing inspiration from Keys Sharpe is a veteran of several catching dinner, authors and waters. decades of fishing and anglers can find what they seek in Cardenas’ books include tournament wins. His career the inspiring waters of the “Marquesa: A Time & Place with includes establishing and Florida Keys. U A E R U B
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23 History of The Tour nament t is interesting to me that when people think of Ernest Hemingway, Key West immediately comes to mind, but when thinking about IHemingway fishing for giant blue marlin they usually don’t connect marlin fishing and Hemingway with the gulf stream south of Key West. Founders of the Key West Marlin tournament Capt. Norman Wood and Wayne Hunt believed that marlin fishing in Key West could rival marlin fishing in many other spots in the world. Did Hemingway know about the great marlin fishing off Key West 40 years before? You bet he did! It wasn’t to prove the point but in 1981 Norman Wood invited Miami Herald writer Jim Hardie to Key West for a trip aboard the Petticoat III . Little did they know this trip would make history. After that fishing trip the Miami Herald headline read; “Hemingway Never Had It So Good”. When the Petticoat III returned to Oceanside Marina in Key West, four marlin flags flew from the outrigger; three release flags and a fourth a silhouette of the captured blue marlin weighing 285 pounds. The released marlin were estimated at 150, 275 and 400 pounds. As exciting as that trip was, the full story was even more unbelievable. Seven blue marlin were hooked on that day, setting the stage for one of the greatest fishing tournaments in history. Shortly after that historical day of fishing aboard the Petticoat III , another Key West sportfishing boat recorded nine blue marlin hook-ups in one day. News of the red-hot marlin fishing on the Key West Wall spread through the sport fishing community like wild fire.
The Key West Marlin Key West attorney Jack separated the first through eighth- Tournament Is Born Spottswood with a 462 pounder, place marlin. Aboard Captain Dick In 1982 the inaugural Key West aboard the Chelsea . Micky Rupp Myers Fair Star angler Harold Marlin Tournament took place aboard his boat Rupp Rigger was Shappel landed a 328.12 pound October 23 – October 25 with 92 the winner of the tag and blue marlin to claim first place. boats and 400 anglers testing the release division with two marlin. Navy Captain Red Best waters south of Key West on the 1983 was the year of the 300 commanding officer of the NAS Wall. It was a rousing success. pounders. Only 4 ounces separated Key West Base won the marlin tag 1982 was the year of the 400 the first and second place marlin and release division fishing with pounders with first prize going to winners and only 23 pounds Captain Junior Rendueles.
24 1984 was the year of the 500 The Key West Marlin pounders. Mary Jo Spence Tournament Is Reborn landed a 500-pound blue marlin to claim first place fishing aboard 1999 Drambuie Key West the Mary Jo with captain Matt 1988 returned to the year of the Marlin Tournament Borkowski. A second 500-pound 400-pounder. Angler Walter Milo The tournament is reborn with a new and exciting scoring format blue was weighed in on the last fishing with Captain Jay Weed that keeps every boat in the day of the tournament to take aboard the Lucky Two landed a tournament until lines out on the second place based on time of 422.25-pound blue marlin to final day. In 1999 the first place catch. Angler Kent Smith aboard make the winners circle. Capt. Frank Smith’s Renegade was boat in the marlin division was the Talisman with angler Jim Sharpe the tag and release champ with 1989 was once again the year of two marlin releases. Jr. and Captain Mike Friday with the 300-pounder. Angler Roy 470 points. Second place boat was Spear fishing with Capt. Patrick the CC Rider with 461 points. 1985 was the year of excitement Sheppard aboard the Dream and variety of catches. Angler Third place boat was the Sweet made the winners circle with a Deal also scoring 461 points but Charles Lewis fishing aboard 300-pound blue. Angler Tim losing second on time of catch. the Amours with Captain Jr. Greene fishing aboard the Rendueles captured the winning Beachcomber with Capt. Mike Cyr 2000 Drambuie Key West blue marlin with a 466.8 took top honors in the release Marlin Tournament pounder. Shirley Wood fishing division. The first-place boat in the marlin aboard the Petticoat III with her division was the Summertime husband Norman took top 1990 was back to the 500-pounders Lady II, with anglers Mike honors for most releases. and a new tournament record. The Sullivan and Capt. Marco Gaona brother team of Captain Bryan and Mike Weinhofer. Second- 1986 was the year of the small Bennett and Glenn Bennett fishing place boat was Molly Good Heads boats with two marlin in excess of on the Thunnus captured a blue with angler Jason Gilbert. Third- 300 pounds being caught in 25-foot that weighed in at 570-pounds. place boat was Leprechaun with boats. Angler Findlay Sinclair’s The release honors went to the Sea angler Joe Richardson and Capt. 348.75 pound blue marlin took first Boots 34 angler Chuck Stitzel and Andy Fortin. place, he was fishing aboard the Capt. Todd Badd. In the dolphin division the top Katherine Louise with Capt. Tom dolphin were separated by only Walker and Ed Allie. The second three pounds. The Do Fish with 1991 featured all releases; first place weight marlin went to angler angler Kevin Firestone weighed in marlin release was angler Tom Ramón Rodriquez and Capt. Pat a 43.05-pound bull to take first Daniels and Capt. Larry White Tuper. Bill Voegeli’s two tag and place. In second place was Talisman fishing on the Chief , second marlin releases were tops overall. First with angler Jim Sharpe Jr.’s 42.65- tag, Sonny Boy , Sonny Tilman. release went to angler Scott Ricket pound bull. Third place was the Second Tag, Sea Boots, Capt. Jim on the Serenity and the third marlin Super Equity with angler Pete Sharpe and angler Todd Badd. released went to Warren Worlin Rutskin with a 38.05-pound bull. Sr., fishing with his son Warren 1987 was the year of the 500- Worlin Jr. on the Go Gether. 2001 Drambuie Key West pound blue marlin, as predicted Marlin Tournament in the welcoming letter prior 1992 Angler Steven Lewis and The first-place boat in the marlin to the tournament. A new Capt. Lindsay Forde on division was the Finesse with tournament record was set by Freebee won first place, angler angler Clay Harris and Captain angler Rosie Morrison fishing Phil Eaton and Capt. Ky Ken Harris. The second-place aboard the Sea Boots with Captain Lewis on the Dazie Mae came boat was Rampagous crewed with Jim Sharpe, Rosie’s marlin in second and angler Dennis angler John Crockett and Captain weighed in at 520 pounds. Captik and Capt. Bill Wickers Brett Taporowski. Third-place Angler Gene Stone took top aboard the Linda D IV took went to the boat Looney Tunes honors in the release division. home third place. with angler Bob Scerrato and Ed
25 2005 Drambuie Key West Tournament MarlinTournament History The Julie Jean captained by continued Jimmy Robertson of Boca Grande, Kirvan, Matt Polumbo and Tim Fla., won the top prize in the 2005 Greene, releasing two blue marlin edition of the Drambuie Key Steinmetz fishing with Captain for the win. Second place went to West Marlin Tournament. Carl Rees. the Game Hunter , skippered by Finishing second was Dreamin’ In the dolphin division the top Alex Alder with anglers Brian On , skippered by Randy Hodgekis prize went to angler Tom Payne Baugher, Chris Claypool and with a marlin release and two on the boat Relentless with Anthony Delduca. Get Lit dolphin weighing 21.1 and 28 Captain Paul Ross. In the wahoo captured third place with Captain pounds, with Steve Keinath and division the top boat was Lucky Ray Rosher and anglers Chris Bob Strewe of Rifle, Colorado. Charm with angler Rick Bodett Toomey and Peter Miller . Business Calls was third, with a and Captain Jay Weed. The top In the Fun Fish Division top blue marlin release and a 46.8- tuna was caught on the boat Peg dolphin prize went to angler pound wahoo. The boat was David Lively on the Y2k with a Leg with angler Alan Finnieston. skippered by Bill Rohde with 50.5-pound dolphin. The Kilcare Darren Doop and Mark Staats. caught the largest tuna with 2002 Drambuie Key West The largest marlin of the angler Ned Dickman. The largest Marlin Tournament tournament was estimated at over Marking the 20th anniversary wahoo was captured by the Triple Time with angler Rob Camis. 550 pounds, and released by Bruce of the tournament, the first-place Wood fishing on the Petticoat III winner was Mar-Joe with Captain 2004 Drambuie Key West with Capt. Norman Wood. Scott Henley, George Castro, and Marlin Tournament Bradley Wells, age 10, of Naples, Frank Bolin releasing three blue Miami Beach angler Bob Florida caught a 31.6- pound marlin to add their names to the Cristoph, Sr., caught and released dolphin to win the dolphin division. Norman Wood trophy. The a sailfish Saturday, adding points second-place trophy went to the to his team’s tally that included a 2006 Drambuie Key West Bull Gator team, with Bob Sullivan released blue marlin and a 17.2- Marlin Tournament and Bill Caulfield releasing two pound dolphin to win the 2004 Congratulations to Roy Miller blue marlin. Third-place went to tournament. of Clearwater and John Burket of Summertime Lady with one blue Cristoph’s son Bob Cristoph, St. Petersburg. The Serenity team marlin release based on time. Jr., Ryan Flannery and Bill Mosher caught and released a blue marlin The Fun Fish Division first- fished on the Hook , skippered by to win the 2006 tournament. place dolphin was caught on Rick Morrell of Miami. The second-place trophy was the Erica by Jimmy Butters Randy Reynolds released a awarded to The Finesse , captained weighing 35.35-pounds, blue marlin to give Business Calls’ by Kenny Harris with angler second-place went to Sweet Deal team second place with Captain Andy Glyn of Marshfield, Mass. with Scott Fricke with a 32.2- Bill Rohde. Third place was garnered by pound dolphin and third-place Third place was garnered by The Janice 43 , skippered by Ed was Super Grouper with Chip the team of Sir Veza III . Wilson of Fort Myers, Florida, Veach weighing 29.95-pounds. In the Fun Fish Division top with angler Loren Farinelli of The top wahoo was caught on dolphin prize went to angler Lighthouse Pointe, Florida. the Lucky Charm by Rick Cresse. Kevin Speidel on the Triple Time . In the Fun Fish Division, The The Ambitious took first place in Key West Fire Department , 2003 Drambuie Key West the tuna division with a 66.3- captained by Ed Gates of Key Marlin Tournament pound yellowfin. Tim Trivett was West won the dolphin category. The first-place boat in the 2003 the angler with Mark Baumgarten The wahoo category went to tournament in the marlin division on the Cowboy which took first The Lucky Charm with a 53.1- was the Beachcomber , with captain place in the wahoo division with a pound wahoo reeled in by Daryl Simeon and anglers Rick 33.4-pound. Richard McGinley of Ocala, FL.
26 2007 Drambuie Key West Third place went to Cracker , Marlin Tournament skippered by Mark Schultz with Jeff Strack released a white angler Maurice Gibson for a marlin and caught a 22.6-pound and added a dolphin to win the total of 417.8 points. dolphin Friday, and released a Drambuie Key West Marlin Bill Currie of the On Course blue marlin Saturday to give the Tournament and the $25,000 was awarded the Jim Hardie Giggling Marlin team a total of first-place prize. “I have no Memorial Trophy. 822.6 points and the $25,000 top words to describe this. It is cash prize in the tournament’s amazing,” said Coll of Cudjoe 2010 Drambuie Key West marlin division. Key, Florida. Marlin Tournament On Course , skippered by Bill The Cajun Queen , made up of The Contingent Sea with angler Currie, took second place with Greg Eklund and Mike Nichols, Clayton Syfrett caught and releases of a blue marlin and a both of Islamorada, Fla., plus released the winning marlin in the spearfish by Mike Zalewski of Brad Whitlock, Bob Whitlock, last hours of the tournament to Tampa and Dan Harrington of and Trey Myers, all of Fort capture the tournament win. Terra Verde, Fla., respectively. Myers, Fla., finished second. Second place went to Whiskey In third place was Easy Rider In third place was BFB with Tango with Steve Doss and in skippered by Rob Harris of Jody Briad of Key West, and Paul third place was Dream Catcher Cudjoe Key, Fla. Harris’ team Barret, Paulette Barret, Donna with angler Brian Wenrick. The combined a blue marlin release Barret and Steve Tucker of first-place dolphin was caught by and catches of a 25.3-pound Gulfport, Fla. Rob Gothier, Jr., fishing on the Bar dolphin and a 39.65-pound In the Fun Fish Division, South . The first-place tuna was wahoo, the largest wahoo of the Robert Beck of Plant City, Fla., caught by Play Time with angler tournament. won with a 73.3-pound wahoo. Michael Cioffi and the first-place Captain Billy Wickers III, on Randy Sterling Sr., of Key West, wahoo was brought in by Steve the charterboat Linda D V , won was second with a 42.2-pound Doss on the Whiskey Tango . the tournament’s inaugural Jim dolphin, and Robert Collins of The Jim Hardie trophy was Hardie Memorial Trophy for the Miramar, Fla., was third with a awarded to Dave Claffy for his largest marlin released during 20.45-pound tuna. many contributions to the the tournament. tournament. Hardie, a former “Miami 2009 Drambuie Key West Herald” outdoors writer who Marlin Tournament 2011 Drambuie Key West died in 2006, was the first Rene Cruz, of the Dock Cruiser Marlin Tournament journalist to write about the blue II, fishing with Rick Sheriff, won Two Fort Myers, Florida, marlin fishery off Key West. In the tournament’s top prize of anglers each caught their first 1981, Captain Norman Wood $25,000 and their name added to blue marlin to elevate the Moppy invited Hardie to Key West for a the Norman Wood trophy. They Dick II team to the top position trip aboard the Petticoat III . When released a blue marlin on and the first-place prize. they returned, four marlin flags Thursday and weighed a dolphin Dan Richards released his fish, flew from the outriggers. Three weighing 23.05-pounds Friday to estimated to weigh 125-pounds, were released and one boated. clench the win with 423.05 points. on Saturday and his teammate Clay Harris of Key West, In second place was the Harry Cameron had reeled in his fishing with his father Captain Shockwave fishing team with approximately 150-pound marlin Ken Harris on the Finesse , Captain Marco Gano leading on Friday. caught the largest dolphin at his angler Jim O’Malley to On Course , captained by Bill 48.95-pounds. release a blue marlin estimated Currie of Tampa, Florida, took to weigh 550 pounds. That, second place with a blue marlin 2008 Drambuie Key West paired with a dolphin release and two weighed dolphin. Marlin Tournament weighing 21.45 pounds caught Blue Heaven , with Tampa Risky Business with Danny on Friday, gave them 421.45 angler Steve Swindle, was third Coll and Bernard Davis points to garner second place; with a released blue marlin and a released two marlin on Saturday less than two points out of first. wahoo.
27 2016 Bacardi Oakheart Tournament Key West Marlin Tournament History The Indigenous , skippered by continued The excited team ended the Travis Dickens of Islamorada, tournament with 496.75 points, Fla., garnered top honors and a providing Ruckus the edge to $25,000 first-place prize at the 2012 Drambuie Key West capture the $25,000 first place 2016 Bacardi Oakheart Key West Marlin Tournament prize. Marlin tournament. The Risky Business with Danny Team Ruckus also caught the Dickens’ team combined a Coll and Bernard Davis released a largest dolphin of the tournament blue marlin release Friday, by white marlin to gain first place weighing in at 48.75 pounds. angler Mike Melhado of and win the $25,000. Second place went to OCD Indialantic, Fla, with a 110.5- The second-place team was releasing a white marlin on the pound yellowfin tuna that Kevin the Reel Darlins with Cyd final day of fishing, by team Schoolfield of Melbourne Beach, Tuskowski of St. Petersburg, member John Harris, and Fla., caught Saturday, to best 31 Fla. and Laura Russell, also releasing a sailfish by angler Cece other boats. from St. Petersburg. Imbrie for a point total of 450. Flying Fish Charters of Key Third place was the Cajun Third place was captured by West , with Jamie Connell at the Queen with Captain Greg Eklund High Class Hooker , with angler helm, released a white marlin and angler Jordan Wolk of Jeb Teirney releasing a white Tavernier, Fla. and sailfish for second place. marlin and receiving 400 points. Angler Jim Connell of Key West This would become the last 2013 Drambuie Key West caught and released both fish. tournament to bear the Drambuie High Stakes , skippered by Marlin Tournament name, and a new era would Jason Jonas of Key West, finished Mark Truett made the most of begin with the addition of the third with a blue marlin release his first saltwater fishing trip, Bacardi Oakheart sponsorship. catching and releasing a 500- and a 26.5-pound dolphin. pound blue marlin to win the 2015 Bacardi Oakheart Angler Bob Hansen of Fairfax, tournament. Key West Marlin Tournament Va., caught and released the Truett, of Duncan, Okla., Cowgirl , skippered by Phil marlin, while angler Don Jonas needed about 2.5 hours to land McGinn of Key West, garnered of Key West caught the dolphin. the blue. Later that day Bobby top honors and a $25,000 first- Shannon caught a 17.9-pound place prize at the 2015 tournament. 2017 Havana Club dolphin to add to the boat's point Angler Marty Crews of Mound Key West Marlin Tournament total and give High Stakes the City, Kansas, released a white Reel Captivating st arted off $25,000 first-place prize. marlin on Friday, and Ben Giefer the morning with a sailfish Perry Brown, of Jacksonville, of Leawood, Kansas, released a release by angler Wayne released a blue marlin Friday on sailfish on Saturday that proved Jenkins scoring them 50 fun fish High Class Hooker , skippered by to be the winning fish. points. In the afternoon, they Gene Chrzanowski, of Key West. Blue Heron , skippered by hooked up with what they Troy Martin, of Key West, Shannon Fountain of Big Pine thought could be the winning released a blue marlin Saturday Key, Fla., finished in second with marlin. Unfortunately, it turned on Mr. Z with Key West captain a blue marlin released Friday by out to be another sailfish. Phil "Curly" McGinn to finish Mark Knowles of Key Largo, Fla. Linda D V weighed in the third in the 31-boat fleet. The team added to its score biggest fun fish of the day with with a weight dolphin caught a 32.8lb wahoo caught by angler 2014 Drambuie Key West Saturday. Shane Moseman. Marlin Tournament In third place for 2015 was Belle La Vie Sur La Mer Gary Eng’s white marlin Cracker with a blue marlin weighed in a 29.1lb dolphin release, coupled with several released Saturday by Mark caught by angler David Milo dolphin catches, helped team Schultz of Fort Myers Beach, Fla. and Mark Knowles aboard the Ruckus win the Drambuie Key Jason Johnston of Johnson City, Blue Heron caught a 28.0lb West Marlin Tournament. Tenn., skippered Cracker . dolphin.
28 29 The Florida Keys You Belong in the Keys if … 1. You know all the words to at least four Jimmy Buffett songs and at least two by Howard Livingston. Buffett, the Keys’ “pirate laureate,” took inspiration for anthems like “Margaritaville” from his Key West days in the 70s and early 80s. And Howard, a Lower Keys resident whose Mile Marker 24 Band is a trop rock favorite, penned the equally meaningful “Blame it on the Margaritas.”
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30 looking Key West Harbor. With 5. You’ve eaten a Lobster lively street performers and Reuben at Keys Fisheries, vendors selling creative hand- hogfish at the Hogfish and made wares, it’s a happening that breakfast with the roosters at can’t be missed. Blue Heaven. Once you’ve sampled the Lobster Reuben at 3. You can actually make a Marathon’s waterfront Keys sound when blowing through a Fisheries, you’ll never crave a conch shell. Blowing the conch corned-beef Reuben again. “horn” is a Keys tradition that Hogfish, caught primarily by dates back to the shipwreck spearfishing divers, is a light U A E salvagers of the early 1800s. R white fish best enjoyed at its U B
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35 2018 Hemingway Days Welcome...
your gut says it is much more that caught the night breeze from than that, so very much more — the windows flung wide open — a primal remembrance, perhaps, “Now this is home.” of where on this earth you are I like to imagine that the meant to be. moon was full and that the I remember these words from platinum wash of light filled the a local when I asked him how yard of fledgling palms and his trip off the island had banyan, and that this man who gone. “Oh Dear God,” he said. seemed always to belong to the “I had panic attacks every day. I world, belonged at that moment couldn’t breathe . I swear I could only to himself and his family, N
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36 37 The 38th Annual HEMINGWAY DAYS JULY 17-22, 2018
rnest Hemingway fans can celebrate the late author’s literary accomplishments Eand colorful Key West lifestyle Tuesday through Sunday, July 17-22. The 38th annual Hemingway Days festivities salute the legacy of the Nobel Prize winner who lived and wrote on the island for most of the 1930s. Events include the famed Hemingway ® Look-Alike Contest, prose and poetry readings, the tongue-in-cheek “Running of the Bulls,” symposium presentations and a film evening, a look-alike “party” on Hemingway’s July 21 birthday, running and paddle- boarding challenges, a lively street fair and a high-stakes three-day marlin tournament recalling his passion for Florida Keys angling. The festival begins Tuesday, July 17, with a Hemingway museum exhibit “open house” at the Custom House Museum, 281 Front St. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Key West Hemingway Symposium is to feature scholars Kirk Curnutt, Ashley Oliphant and Brewster Chamberlin; Hemingway interpreter and playwright/author Brian Gordon Sinclair; and writer
38 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Ernest’s great-granddaughter. and Friday, July 19 and 20, with The festival’s other literary the final round Saturday, July 21 offerings include the “Voices, — the 119th anniversary of Places, Inspirations” author Hemingway’s birth. readings, “Papa’s Poems” The “Papas” also enliven presented by the Key West other festival events including Poetry Guild and an evening Saturday’s infamous “Running of spotlighting Sinclair’s “The the Bulls.” Set for 1 p.m. outside Hemingway Monologues” film Sloppy Joe’s with manmade bull U A E
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41 Look-Alikes To Compete ‘Ernestl y’ During The 2018 Hemingwa y ®Look-Alike Contest ust as swallows fly to Capistrano each year, flocks of stocky white-bearded Ernest JHemingway look-alikes make an annual pilgrimage to Key West. Spectators can applaud their favorites Thursday through Saturday, July 19-21, as 125 or more aspiring “Ernests” compete in the annual Hemingway ® Look- Alike Contest. The competition takes place at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, 201 Duval St., where the legendary author often enjoyed cocktails with cohorts when he lived in Key West during the 1930s. The event is a highlight of the July 17-22 Hemingway Days celebration of his writing talent, sporting pursuits and energetic lifestyle. The contest’s preliminary U
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43 Food and Fun for Everyone Hemingway Days Caribbean Street Fair small group tutoring at no charge for adults who read and write below a fifth-grade level. One hundred percent of the money LVA collects from the street fair will be used to provide support for the organization’s program. This year the Caribbean Street Fair is sponsored in part by the Margaritaville Key West Resort & Marina and Pepe’s Café. For more information about the Caribbean Street Fair and/or Literacy Volunteers of America– Monroe County, call 305-294-4352, e-mail [email protected] or visit lva-monroe.org .
iteracy Volunteers of America– corner of Greene Street. Monroe County will once The look-alikes will also stage again present the Caribbean a hilarious “Running of the Bulls” SLtreet Fair during the annual beginning at 1 p.m. outside Hemingway Days festival. On Sloppy Joe’s and proceeding Saturday, July 21, Duval Street along a portion of Duval Street. will be closed to motorized traffic Manmade bulls will be featured for four blocks beginning at Front in this take-off on the famous Street for this event, a highlight Pamplona event, a salute to the of Key West’s annual celebration love of bullfighting that inspired of Ernest Hemingway’s years on Hemingway’s “Death in the the island. Afternoon.” From 10 a.m. to 10 pm. art, This is the fourth year that clothing, delicious ethnic foods and Literacy Volunteers of America– more will be offered to fairgoers Monroe County has presented celebrating Hemingway’s the Caribbean Street Fair. LVA’s lifestyle, savoring the aromas belief is that proficiency in and satisfying every taste as they reading and writing skills will stroll the booths of vendors. help individuals increase their Bearded Hemingway look- earning power and improve their alikes will be available for photo self-esteem. The organization, opportunities beginning at noon founded in 1984, provides outside Sloppy Joe’s Bar at the confidential, one-to-one and
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47 Encouraging Emerging Writers Lorian Hemingway’s Short Story Competition
Most of us like to think we have a story in our lives — or at least in our imaginations. Some of us even put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, to immortalize the event or events that make up our stories. And some of the most motivated submit their completed stories to this prestigious U
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N Merritt, dean of the college of arts A and letters at Bluefield College, Lorian Hemingway signs copies of “A World Turned Over” during a past and Brandi Reissenweber, assistant Hemingway Days celebration. professor and creative writing instructor at Illinois Wesleyan he Lorian Hemingway This is the 37th year for the University. Short Story Competition is competition, which typically This year’s first-place winner an important Key West receives entries from countries all will receive a $1,500 cash prize lTiterary event that coincides with around the world, in addition to the plus publication in “Cutthroat … the annual Hemingway Days United States. Among the 700-plus a Journal of the Arts,” published celebration. Emerging writers entries this year are stories by by Pamela Uschuk, an American whose works have yet to be writers from France, Norway, Book Award winner. Second- and recognized are encouraged to Sweden, Germany, Portugal, India, third-place winners will each enter this contest, competing Cypress, South Africa and Australia receive a $500 cash prize. for cash prizes and possible among others; there’s an entry from The winners will be publication in a literary journal. China, and one from Russia — for announced on Lorian’s website, An accomplished writer only the third time since the shortstorycompetition.com , by 3 herself, Lorian Hemingway is the inception of the competition. p.m. July 22. And as she does each author of three critically- “The number of countries from year, Lorian will telephone the acclaimed works, “Walking into which the stories come always winner to give him or her the the River,” “Walk on Water” and surprises and delights me,” good news. “A World Turned Over.” Lorian said. —Katharine Roach
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Hailey Matthews declared that she’d been in love with him since third grade. Hailey made constant bids for attention and had bleached her hair the year before, though her black roots always showed. In second grade, Hailey’s father died and the town had showered her mother, tall and blonde, with casseroles and condolences. Too young for these southern social graces, we gave Lorian Hemingway is proud to present the 2017 third-place winner of the Hailey space. Since dyeing her short story competition that bears her name, chosen from among 650 entries. hair, Hailey liked to think of herself as popular. She followed Katie, who did not fancy herself popular and was always nice to everyone. After Peter died, some of the art We are the Bobcats kids were asked to paint a mural in By Jackie Mohan his memory on the side hallway to t was all over Facebook. Peter’s conversation at Katie’s sweet the gym, the one with the water profile had become a memorial sixteen to last year’s group project fountains. Each of us began taking of posts he would never read, on photosynthesis. He became the special routes to our next classes Imore posts than he had ever gotten kindest kid in school and a beacon so that we could go down the on any birthday. The messages of light in every class. hallway and see Georgia and were personal, emotional. We felt When his death was Tucker, who had been excused indecent reading some of them, as acknowledged in the morning from class, working on the mural. if a neighbor had forgotten to pull announcements, the Monday after They were painting a fishing pole down curtains at night and we the accident, we held a long that pulled a deep blue fish out of a could see inside. We read every moment of silence. Most of us had pond and into a radiating yellow single one. already known from Facebook . We sun. The thick smell of the paint Before the accident, most of us learned the details from the filled the hallway. Down the didn’t know Peter Bishop beyond Sunday edition of The Spring Hill hall, we heard the drama kids a name. He was quiet, overweight Journal , our town’s weekly rehearsing Romeo and Juliet . and pear-shaped with brown hair, newspaper. A car had struck him On Wednesday, Hailey stood brown eyes, just one more face early Saturday morning as Peter babbling to Katie, who watched filling the school hallways. But headed to Boykin Pond with a Georgia and Tucker in quiet now he was dead. In the hallways fishing pole strapped to his reverie with the rest of us. One girl outside classroom doors, we bicycle. The accident was front started crying and her friend took recalled our interactions with him page news. her into the bathroom. Hailey in heartrending detail, from that A few days after Peter’s death, pulled out her phone and shook
49 her wrist, jangling the set of most special person I’ve ever rhinestone bangles adorning her known.” We shuffled our feet, skinny, spray-tanned arm. cramped and pinched inside our “I don’t know why she was glass windows. Up front, Peter’s tight church shoes. “I can feel him crying,” Hailey said. “Not to be parents talked with the pastor, a looking down on me today from mean or whatever, but I’m the man with thinning brown hair Heaven, telling me that I can get one who’s had a crush on him who was not as old as we thought through this. I don’t know if I forever.” he should be, and the church had can.” We did not care that her eyes This was unlikely, since we all an off-putting, musky smell. Peter’s were red and puffy. We cared that knew that Peter had asked Hailey mother wore a plain black dress, she dared to stand in front of us, in to the Frosty Formal, the winter so well-worn that it was almost front of Peter’s parents, with dance, the year before and she’d navy, and Peter’s father had his plastic tortoiseshell sunglasses gone with the soccer captain arm tight around her shoulders. It perched on her blond head. instead, but we didn’t say stayed there throughout the “I will miss him forever,” she anything. We let Hailey love Peter, service, and when he released her continued. “You have all been so and when she began sniffling in afterward to shake hands with supportive in my time of grief, and the hallway, no fewer than four of funeral attendees, the mark of his I can’t thank you enough.” Here us offered her a Kleenex. She clenched fingers remained in the she turned her blue eyes upward accepted all of them with the thin fabric of her dress. and pointed a glittered nail to the watery, gracious thanks of one of When the pastor asked if high ceiling. We cringed. “We love the wronged women in our anyone would like to come up and you, Peter.” She looked forward, mothers’ soap operas. say a few words about Peter, most over our heads. “Thank you.” of us stayed seated. Peter’s father She brought a wrinkled tissue 9 spoke a little and quickly sat to her eyes, rimmed with eyeliner, Peter’s funeral was a Thursday down. His mother could not stand. and walked back to her seat, her morning. Students who wanted to One boy, Malachi , stood but it shoes squeaking. attend were allowed to leave class took him a few moments to collect early. That morning, we dressed in himself. Peter and Malachi had 9 our Sunday best, climbed into our been friends as long as we could Friday, we were all back in hand-me-down pick-up trucks or remember, and we had heard that school. Hailey came in late, Toyota Camrys, and headed to he was supposed to go fishing wearing black. She couldn’t wear school. As we walked to class, we with Peter that Saturday morning her funeral dress again because it avoided the freshmen, even the but had slept through his alarm. would violate the dress code, so juniors and seniors. They were “Peter was my best friend,” instead she wore black lipstick. whole, intact. They had not known Malachi said, a crumpled piece of “For Peter,” she said, not when our grief. We sat patiently through paper clutched in his hand. He asked, but when we all looked first and half of second period, tried to unfold it but gave up and at her as she walked into Mr. waiting for our cue. When the ran a hand through his uncombed Davenport’s English class, late. principal dismissed us, we rose hair. Peter’s father stood and Mr. Davenport asked us to with the quiet dignity of the helped Malachi back to his seat. write poems. We could use them widowed, hiked our backpacks on The pastor waited off to the side to talk about Peter, to explore our our shoulders, and made sure to and when no one else came to the grief if we wanted. The poems walk by Peter’s mural as we podium, we prepared to leave. would not be graded. He gave us headed back to the parking lot Then Hailey stood. twenty minutes, during which under a rainy sky. Her black heels, too tall to be time he walked around the room, Some of us went to Spring Hill decent, squeaked as she walked to giving sympathetic smiles. Most of Baptist Church alongside Peter, the front. She tugged at the hem us stuffed our poems down into and those who went elsewhere of her short black dress, flipped the depths of our backpacks or still knew how to behave at a her hair over her shoulder, and folded and tucked them in the funeral. We filed into the pews, cleared her throat. back pocket of our binders. Hailey lone islands with careful space “Many of you know how raised her hand. between us, and examined our important Peter was to me,” she “Mr. Davenport, I’d like to surroundings. The vague light of a said. “I met him in third grade. share mine,” she said, lifting a rainy day deadened the tall stained Peter was the nicest, smartest, piece of notebook paper filled with
50 a rainbow of multi-colored gel lone car speeding down the pens. She stood without waiting nearby road, the site of the permission and opened her mouth accident. We wanted to go on to speak. us arrived after sundown. Even standing there forever, an Katie’s voice cut through the with our small class, we filled the unbreakable wall, but we were room. “Nobody wants to hear it!” parking lot and lined the road only teenagers and reality called Hailey looked at Katie, who beyond the trees. The air rang us home. had buried her face in her hands. with cicadas, the sound of a Hailey then looked around at the dying summer, and the humidity 9 rest of us and we looked down at wrapped around us. We stood Hailey wasn’t in school Monday our desks, studying them with the along the edge of the pond holding or Tuesday. We didn’t notice until intensity of monks in prayer. a hodgepodge of whatever Wednesday, when Mr. Davenport Nobody did want to hear it, but we candles we could find: our older asked if anyone had talked to her. weren’t going to say so. It was sisters’ Bath and Body Works We hadn’t. Thursday, we sat in better she heard it from her best candles in Pumpkin Spice, our first period, and the morning friend, although we agreed that mothers’ Fresh Linen from Yankee announcements began, reminding the timing may have been off. Candle, our grandma’s tall red us about the pep rally on Friday. “Thank you, Hailey, but I think and white tapers from dining There was no mention of the these are best kept private,” Mr. rooms. Malachi passed out tea opening night of Romeo and Juliet Davenport said. “I think we’re all lights in Styrofoam cups to despite the flyers that now as overwhelmed by Peter’s death everyone else. Hailey was not wallpapered our lockers. We as you are.” He gave her one of his there, and when we asked Katie began pulling homework out of sympathetic smiles, the one he about it, she said, “I couldn’t give our bags, reading questions on The used when he wanted to make us her a ride.” Her fingers worked to Scarlet Letter , calculus worksheets, feel like he understood us. shred the edge of her cup, and the biology notes on our dying fruit Hailey fell back into her seat as white particles floated down flies. Hushed conversations if she’d been struck. No one and stuck to her sweatshirt. rose up as our teachers busied looked at her. We imagined Hailey at home, themselves writing the day’s At lunch, she sniffled, and not reapplying black lipstick, sore agenda on their whiteboards. one of us offered her a tissue from over missing an opportunity to The intercoms crackled to life the plastic packs our mothers claim Peter for herself. again. “Bobcats, I’m sorry for the made us carry, worried about our Malachi had a photograph of interruption. I’ve just received dealing with tragedy so young. himself and Peter, arms around some tragic news.” Our hearts When Hailey sat by Katie in each other and fishing poles high stopped. We could not breathe. Biology, Katie got up to go to the in the air, in a thin black picture “This week, we have lost another bathroom and when she returned, frame. He also brought a small member of our family. I am she sat at a different table. Before boat, the kind he might have built sorry to tell you that Hailey last period, as we made our quick in woodshop or with his father as Matthews passed away yesterday trip to Peter’s mural, we crowded a boy, and he placed the picture on morning.” We looked at each together and left Hailey to stand this. Kneeling by the pond, he other, bewildered. “For those alone by herself. We each pushed the boat out into the water. wanting to talk, your guidance mourned and felt the weight of About twenty feet from shore, the counselors are still available. Peter in our chests. Hailey didn’t picture slipped off the boat. We Thank you.” There was no moment get to have a monopoly on grief. wanted to jump in, to pull Peter of silence. up, and a few of us even took a Yesterday morning? We had 9 step forward as if to try. We seen nothing online. We pulled Over the weekend, Malachi wanted to save him, but instead out our phones and began organized a vigil at Boykin Pond. we stayed rooted to the ground. scouring social media for any Some of us came early and fished a We stood side by side until the mention of Hailey, but we found little before the sun went down. moon rose above the blackened none. Malachi was the only person who trees and felt the loneliness of our “Phones away, everyone,” our caught anything, one tiny fish grief fall away, like shedding a teachers said. thrashing its silver body against skin. It was a clear, perfect night, We could not remember one death. He threw it back. The rest of and we flinched at the sound of a thing our teachers said in class.
51 or memorial to be condoned. “Suicide, you know,” he had told Tucker. cBontionuebd cats We knew. We knew from the watched Katie, who dragged the missing moment of silence, from weight of a failed best friendship the lack of information in The When we tried to listen, their behind her wherever she went. Spring Hill Journal , from the mural words passed through our heads At lunch, Georgia sat with Katie Georgia and Tucker would never like shadows. Hailey was dead? at a quiet corner table, their trays paint. We knew from the way we But we hated Hailey. She couldn’t of pizza sticks untouched. After felt uneasy talking about Hailey, die. Most of our teachers tried to third period, we gravitated from the way our mothers began carry on as normally as possible. toward Georgia’s locker. asking probing questions about Mr. Davenport held his own “Well?” we asked. “Well?” our emotional states and the way moment of silence in his classroom Georgia had circles under her our fathers refused any mention of before giving the class the rest of eyes. “She killed herself,” she said. “that Matthews girl.” the period to study for a test . We had already known this. When we looked up Hailey on Throughout the rest of the day “How?” one of the younger Facebook, the most recent post on and Friday, we monitored our girls asked, in bad taste, we her profile was her message to phones for clues but none came. In thought. Peter. No one had posted on her third period, we asked Georgia Georgia fiddled with her lock, profile since then. Her long and Tucker what Hailey’s looping it around her finger like a message ended with a picture that memorial mural would be. They shackle. “She hung herself,” Hailey’s mom must have snapped said the administration hadn’t Georgia said. “With her father’s in elementary school. Hailey approached them about it. red silk tie.” was sprawled on a purple rug, a Early Sunday morning, we We remembered the tall pink dress splayed around her surprised our parents by fetching ceilings of the Matthews’ house tiny body like a fan, coloring the paper from the sidewalk from last year’s Halloween party, construction paper valentines for before they were even awake. But draped in orange streamers and our class. The one between her The Spring Hill Journal held no cottony shreds of spider web. hands was a red heart, slightly answers, no article or obituary. No Hailey’s mother rolled her eyes misshapen, with Peter’s name mention of a funeral. We asked and told us that Hailey had spent written on it in large purple letters. this semester’s student intern at all day decorating. We recalled the the paper about it. “The editor told way the skeletons were hung high 9 me that we don’t cover suicides,” on the walls, dancing, their toothy At the end of the day, not yet she said. Suicide? We could not smiles grinning down at us. ready to go home, we stood in believe it. Hailey was not the type. Most of us had skipped out of front of Peter’s mural as the She wore pink and glitter and had Hailey’s party early to meet at the hallways fell quiet. The frigid air a laugh that grated in our ears. She Confederate cemetery, by far the of the vents bore into our skin and was annoying. She was young, oldest in town, where the real fun somewhere near the school, a young like us. She couldn’t die. was found in the brown paper tractor rumbled by. The mural We couldn’t die. And yet, here we bags we’d smuggled under our was well done. The wood grain in were, becoming a dying breed. costumes. the fishing pole was rendered in The first bell rang and we painstaking detail and tiny, 9 scattered to our classes. careful lines formed the ripples of Katie was not in school Monday After school, we found Tucker the water, billowing outward. or Tuesday and we worried . touching up some of the fish scales Still, it somehow fell flat. We Wednesday , she returned, wearing on Peter’s mural. “What about looked at the mural and missed no makeup and moving at a Hailey’s?” we asked. He told us Peter, but there was nowhere to turtle’s pace through the hallways. that he had gone to the front office look for Hailey. We had nothing We kept our distance when we got during lunch to ask where the except the sound of Hailey’s heels stuck behind her. school would like Hailey’s mural squeaking around and around in “Can you imagine?” we painted. The principal told our heads. remarked as we stood outside him that the nature of Hailey’s Mr. Davenport came to stand our second period classes. We death would not permit a mural beside us. Our backs stiffened. His
52 white shirt was wrinkled and his handed us programs, which we belt did not match his shoes. folded and tucked into our “Where’s the mural for Hailey?” pockets. he asked, his hands in his pockets, We entered the cold auditorium jangling spare change. around us. The cheerleaders with its cheap red curtains draped “She doesn’t get one,” Tucker streamed out from a side door, along the walls. The drama kids’ said. shaking their pompoms. One of parents and grandparents sat in He stopped jangling the coins in them pulled at the hem of her skirt the front and centermost seats. his pocket. “Do none of you feel and we thought of Hailey’s dress at Their hushed murmurs rose as badly?” Deep lines seemed to form Peter’s funeral. they looked around and saw the on his fallen face. The principal spoke of “our crowd. “It must really be great this We wished he would leave. loss” and how this game was an semester!” they said to each other. “We tried, but the principal said opportunity to come together. He Then one mother, closer to us, no,” Georgia said. announced the basketball team as whispered to an elderly woman Mr. Davenport turned and they came dribbling in. Only one beside her, “It’s because of Peter.” looked at each of us, one by one. sophomore was on the team and The grandmother didn’t hear her “Not about the mural,” he said. he moved with an appropriate but the woman continued. “Times We studied the painted fish amount of slowness. The players like these make them come scales, the peaks and valleys left by shot some baskets, tried some together and feel closer to their the brushstrokes. The space flashy slam dunks, and the rest of school.” between us closed in as we the classes cheered. The “What about that Matthews contracted like a fist. He had no cheerleaders started a routine and girl?” someone asked. right. We were young and the principal took charge. “Who?” the mother said. The grieving, scarred and bleeding, and “We are the Bobcats, the mighty, lights went down. he had no right after everything we mighty Bobcats!” His voice boomed At intermission, we stayed had gone through. from the black megaphone. He seated. The cheerleaders sold “About what?” we said . pointed from section to section, cupcakes in the lobby to fundraise freshmen to senior, conducting for their upcoming competition. 9 them in a chorus of C-A-T-S. We We let the mothers buy them and It was Friday and time for the were A. Each time it was our turn, return with lipstick smudged by pep rally. We avoided the we managed a cheer so weak that it frosting. Finally, act five arrived. spontaneous Bobcats cheers in the was as if we weren’t there at all. When Juliet killed herself, we hallways, didn’t enter the raffle for clutched the ends of our armrests, a Bobcats swag bag at lunch. When 9 our arms pressed together like the bell rang for fourth period, we Saturday night was the theater magnets. Our faces stayed hidden followed the rest of the school to department’s opening night of by the darkness and by the the gym for the mandatory pep Romeo and Juliet . The inside of the closeness of so many bodies in one rally. We filed up into our seats in a school felt eerie and out-of-bounds. place, at one time, that we could silent procession as the other We paid our five-dollar student not tell where one ended and the grades laughed and whooped ticket fees and unenthused ushers next began.
Jackie Mohan is a fiction writer from Fort Mill, South Carolina. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University in May 2018. She currently resides in Norfolk, Virginia, where she is developing a novel based on "We are the Bobcats."
53 Hemingway Days Continues Key West’s Rich Literary Tradition
The Key West Art & Historical Society’s Hemingway Symposium begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday, featuring insights from scholars, actors and writers inspired by Hemingway’s work. Scheduled presenters are Kirk Curnutt, author of “Coffee with Hemingway” among others; Ashley Oliphant, author of “Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at ‘The End of the World’”; Brewster Chamberlin, discussing Key West during Hemingway’s era; actor and playwright/author Brian Gordon Sinclair; and writer Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Hemingway’s
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trolley tour of Hemingway’s Key West. Departing from the Custom House Museum, the tour spotlights sites associated with the author including his former home and waterfront settings he Terry Jones' bronze sculpture World famous Hemingway interpreter memorialized in his of Hemingway . Brian Gordon Sinclair. novel “To Have and Have Not.” Life and Death in Key West,” At 5:30 p.m. Friday, festival Held in conjunction with narrated by Sinclair at Tropic attendees can discover the little- Hemingway Days is the inter- Cinema, 416 Eaton St. Sinclair known poetry of Ernest Hemingway . nationally recognized Lorian also is to showcase his seven- The Key West Poetry Guild Hemingway Short Story volume series, “The Hemingway presents a reading of “Papa’s Competition. At 3 p.m. Sunday, Monologues: An Epic Drama of Poems,” as well as their own work, author Lorian Hemingway, Ernest Love, Genius and Eternity,” and at Old City Hall. Hemingway’s granddaughter, plans present Canada’s Hemingway on At noon Sunday, July 22, to announce the winning writers Stage Award with Jaynes. historian Sharon Wells is to lead a at shortstorycompetition.com .
55 Hemingway Days Celebration Schedule of Events
TUESDAY Sinclair, author of the multi- JULY 17 volume series “The Hemingway Monologues”; and writer Cristen 9:30 A.M.-4:30 P.M. — Hemingway Jaynes, Hemingway’s “Hemingway Collection” great-granddaughter. Old City Museum Day. Discover rare Hall, 510 Greene St. Registration artifacts and memorabilia from required; $5 per person (free for Hemingway’s life, a life-sized KWAHS members). Visit bronze of the author and 59 kwahs.org . original pen-and-ink drawings by famed marine wildlife artist Guy WEDNESDAY Harvey — all illustrating JULY 18 Hemingway's “The Old Man and the Sea.” Custom House Museum, 4 P.M. — Final registration for 281 Front St. Free admission for the Havana Club Key West Hemingway Days participants. Marlin Tournament. Anglers Visit kwahs.org . compete for $50,000 in guaranteed 6-8 P.M. cash prizes for targeting marlin, — Key West Art & spearfish, sailfish, dolphin fish, Historical Society’s Hemingway tuna and wahoo. Waterfront Symposium. The symposium Brewery, 201 William St. Visit features scholars, actors and keywestmarlin.com. writers inspired by Hemingway’s 5:30 P.M. work. Presenters are moderator — Meet the “Papas.” Kirk Curnutt, Ph.D., author of Get to know the contestants and “Coffee with Hemingway” previous winners of Sloppy Joe’s among others; Ashley Oliphant, Hemingway ® Look-Alike Contest. Ph.D., author of “Hemingway Sloppy Joe’s, 201 Duval St. Visit and Bimini: The Birth of Sport sloppyjoes.com . HEMINGWAY Fishing at ‘The End of the 6-8 P.M. World’”; Brewster Chamberlin, — Key West Marlin DAYS 2018 Ph.D., discussing Key West Tournament captains meeting, July 17-22 during Hemingway’s era; actor auction and raffle. Waterfront and playwright Brian Gordon Brewery, upstairs deck.
56 7:30-9 P.M. — “Voices, Places, 4-6 P.M. Inspirations.” This evening of — Key West Marlin readings, presentations and Tournament weigh-in. Dock storytelling features Chuck Ball, outside Waterfront Brewery. author of “Last Chance Key West” 5:30 P.M. among others; Cristen Hemingway — “Papa’s Poems.” The Jaynes, reading from “The Mirage Key West Poetry Guild presents a of Mario Sanchez”; Kirk Curnutt, reading of the poetry of Ernest discussing notable novels about Hemingway, as well as their own Key West and their writers; work, during a free-admission Brewster Chamberlin, whose books event at Key West’s Old City Hall. include “Peregrine’s Island”; and For info, contact Nance Boylan at Brian Gordon Sinclair, author of 908-591-5566. “The Hemingway Monologues” 6:30 P.M. — Sloppy Joe’s 38th among others. A “meet-the- annual Hemingway ® Look-Alike authors” reception follows. Key Contest, second preliminary round, West Lighthouse and Keepers to be judged by former contest Quarters. 938 Whitehead St. Free winners. Sloppy Joe’s Bar. $35 entry admission. Visit kwahs.org . U A
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57 7:30 P.M. — Hemingway 5k Hemingway Days Sunset Run/Walk. Racers start at the Southernmost Point in the Sconctihnued dule continental United States at Whitehead and South streets, and proceed through Old Town NOON — Photos with “Papas.” Key West. A post-race awards Look-alikes provide a photo party is scheduled at the opportunity for fans. Greene Southernmost Beach Café. Visit Street outside Sloppy Joe’s. For keywesthalfmarathon.com . info, visit sloppyjoes.com . 1 P.M. SUNDAY — Running of the Bulls. JULY 22 Now in its 20th year, this wacky event is sponsored by Sloppy Joe’s 10 A.M. Bar and features Hemingway ® — Bloody Marys with Look-Alike Contest winners and “Papa.” Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Visit entrants dressed in their Pamplona sloppyjoes.com . best — and a breed of “bull” found 10 A.M. only in Key West. The fun starts on — Sloppy Joe’s Arm Greene Street outside Sloppy Joe’s. Wrestling Contest. Registration is Visit sloppyjoes.com . set for 10 a.m. and the contest begins at 11 a.m. Prizes await 1:30 P.M. — Sloppy Joe’s winners in multiple weight birthday party for “Papa.” divisions. Sloppy Joe’s Bar. $5 Celebrate Ernest’s birthday entry fee; free to watch. Visit (complete with cake) alongside sloppyjoes.com . former winners and contestants in 12-2 P.M. ® U
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