Table of Contents Welcome 6 Tim Greene— Chairman, The Key West Marlin Tournament 8 Scott Greene and Debora Bent— Directors, The Key West Marlin Tournament

Hemingway Days 2016 38 Hemingway Days Welcome 40 36th Annual Hemingway Days 44 “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike Contest Key West Marlin Tournament 10 Schedule of Events 12 Sponsor Recognition 14 Tournament Rules 18 The Art of Rod-Building 24 History of The Tournament 46 Hemingway Days Caribbean Street Fair 48 5k Sunset Run & Paddleboard Race 50 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 51 “Camila Pitanga” by Ladee Hubbard Florida Keys & Key West 55 Hemingway Days Literary Events 32 Explore the Keys With an Eco-Tour Expert 56 Hemingway Days Schedule of Events 34 Five Ways to Enjoy Key West Like a Local 64 Where to Get a Florida Keys “Flavor Fix”

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 page 49).

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Welcome Fishing, Fishing, Everywhere!

elcome to the 2016 Bacardi Oakheart Key West Marlin Tournament! We are delighted to have you join us for another exciting and cWhallenging fishing tournament, full of great fishing, fun, food, entertainment, and friends.

This is an exciting year for our tournament with the inclusion of our new “pre-tournament,” the Marathon Marlin Tournament at Faro Blanco Resort and Yacht Club. Expanding our tournament’s brand allows us to include upper and middle Keys anglers in our premier fishing event. We are happy to welcome our new anglers and are proud to share with them a first-class fishing experience.

We will also be experiencing the excitement of a new venue for many of our events. Everything excluding our Awards Banquet and Silent Auction (held at the beautiful Westin Key West Resort & Marina) will be held at Dante’s Restaurant & Raw Bar. Dante’s complex boasts a crystal clear swimming pool, a cascading waterfall and Tiki bars, creating a gorgeous and relaxing setting for our anglers.

We are very happy to welcome back our title sponsor Bacardi Oakheart, the number one fishing Rum. Bacardi Oakheart is a spiced rum with a unique, smoky flavor, perfect for sipping after an adventurous day of fishing.

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. Bacardi, Marine Max, Westin Key West Resort, Stay in Costa Rica, First State Bank, Dante’s Restaurant & Raw Bar, and the Monroe County Tourist Development Council.

To good fishing and great friends,

Tim Greene, Tournament Chairman

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Welcome From The Directors

elcome to the Bacardi Oakheart Key West Marlin Tournament! This year’s tournament offers lots of excitement, with a new “Wpre-tournament” event in Marathon hosted by Faro Blanco Resort and Yacht Club, along with the pleasure of experiencing our new event venue, Dante’s Restaurant & Raw Bar.

We are looking forward to enjoying the new friendships and SCOTT GREENE camaraderie created by the expansion of our tournament brand into Tournament Director Marathon, and can’t wait to enjoy all of the entertainments offered by Dante’s!

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 DEB0RA BENT fellowship! Tournament Co-Director

Planning and directing this sensational tournament is a challenging adventure, but the positive feedback we receive from the participants and sponsors alike make it a truly rewarding experience. Our board of directors is committed to enhancing this event so it can remain one of the premiere fishing tournaments in the world.

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! Debora Bent Scott Greene Debora Bent Tournament 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 (Dante’s Restaurant & Pool Bar— 7:30 AM — Bimini Start 8:30 AM — 3PM — Lines out of the water Lines in the water tent on second level) 3-5 PM — Weigh In 8:30 AM — (Dante’s Restaurant Lines in the water 4PM — & Pool Bar) 6-7 PM — Lines out of the water Captain’s Meeting 4 PM — 6:30-7:30 PM — (Dante’s Restaurant Lines out of the water 4-6 PM — Weigh In Awards Banquet Cocktails & Pool Bar— (Dante’s Restaurant (Westin Key West Resort tent on second level) 4-6 PM — Weigh In & Pool Bar) & Marina) (Dante’s Restaurant & 6:30-8:30 PM — Silent Pool Bar) 6:30-8PM — 7-8 PM — Auction (Westin Key West Dockside Cocktails Auction and Raffle Resort & Marina) (Dante’s Restaurant 6:30-8 PM — and Fish Fry & Pool Bar— Island Pig Roast and (Dante’s Restaurant 7:30 PM — Awards Banquet Cocktail Party & Pool Bar— Dinner and Awards tent on second level) (Dante’s Restaurant & Pool tent on second level ) (Westin Key West Resort Bar—tent on second level) & 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 2017 Bacardi Oakheart Key West please e-mail your name, address, phone, and e- marlin tournament have been selected. Please mail address to [email protected] . You can mTark your calendar for July 19 thru July 22, 2017, now register and pay for the tournament on-line and and plan to join us for another great tournament. If obtain all the information, pictures and merchandise you 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, great tournament.

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11 Tournament Thanks Major Sponsors of the 2016 Bacardi Oakheart Key West Marlin Tournament

The 2016 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 Bacardi Oakheart 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 Dante’s Seafood & Raw Bar on p.m. During fishing hours boats Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at Fishing will be on Thursday, may catch their own bait but may 6:00pm. July 21; Friday, July 22, and not obtain bait from any other ENTRY REFUSAL : The Saturday July 23, 2016. 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 23, 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, 2016 to be eligible for the early leave rod tip during the fight and On Saturday July 25, 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 . 2016, the entry fee will be $2,100. time on specified class line.

14 9. Line Test Limits: It is the aboard the boat may also be responsibility of the angler to subject to and must pass insure that the proper test line is polygraph testing. Refusal to take used. Line test limits the test will result in must be adhered to. disqualification. Manufacturer's stated Polygraph tests will test line is a maximum include questions on of 130#. Lower test angling and release line may be used, but procedures and species no bonus is awarded of fish. Polygraph tests for using lower test are final and winners line. are not official until all test results are 10. Beginning completed. January 1, 2008 , anglers fishing from HMS 4. RELEASE— permitted vessels and Proper release tech- participating in niques must be used. billfish tournaments Release is official only must use only non- if the following con- offset circle hooks ditions are met: when deploying natural bait or fish. In the event that a camera A. For blue marlin, white natural bait artificial lure malfunctions or some other marlin, spearfish, and sailfish— combinations. Tournament unusual circumstance results in ALL billfish MUST be 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, Conch points for tagged fish. means to download the camera Republic Seafood Company in the to the official records of the Historic Seaport, within two and COMMUNICATIONS & tournament, this can be achieved one-half (2 ½) hours after the REPORTING by either having a removable Committee Boat calls for ‘Lines out of the water’ but no later than sim card or having a cord to 1. The Committee Boat will download to a computer. All fish 5pm on the final day of fishing. monitor VHF Channel 78. caught and released should be photographed several times 3. POLYGRAPH— All 2. All boats must report during the fight and at the time winning teams may be subject to ‘Hook-ups’ and ‘Releases’ to the of release. Failure to photograph and must pass polygraph testing. Committee Boat at the time of the a fish may result in Refusal to take the test will result occurrence, identifying the species disqualification of that particular in disqualification. Any person 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 up to two and one-half (2 1/2) 4. Cameras and line must be consideration and weighs less than 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 transported to the weigh station Water’ in which case the camera entered for additional points as by land or by sea, thus allowing and line may be submitted up to follows: 1 boats fishing out of Big Pine and two and one-half ( 2 ⁄2) hours after the Lower Keys to return to their the Release time reported to the SAILFISH — release 50 points home dock and bring their fish to Committee Boat but no later than (must turn in camera). the Conch Republic Seafood 5:00 p.m. on the final day of fishing. Company by car or truck. The DOLPHIN — 1 point per pound. Weighmaster's announced ACTS OR SITUATIONS i.e. 38.5 pounds scores 38.5 weight at the time of weigh-in THAT WILL DISQUALIFY points. will be entered into the record as A RELEASE: the official weight and the WAHOO — 1 point per pound. 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 releases where the disqualified he/she may attempt camera must be turned in. to catch another fish of that 5. In the event of a tie on points, species during the tournament the boat with the earliest catch or TOURNAMENT WINNERS 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 Bacardi Oakheart Scoring System. and submitted to the Rules Key West Marlin Tournament may Committee on the day of the pay 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 Captain Randy Towe The Art of Rod-Building U A E R U B S W E N S Y E K A D I R O L F / N A M W E N Y D N A

Captain Randy Towe wraps a guide on one his custom rods that he manufactures In 1983, he secured his U.S. Coast in the Florida Keys. A Keys residents since 1983, Towe manufactures rods from Guard captain’s license and began fly to heavy offshore gear for anglers seeking high-end equipment crafted from taking customers out in the high-quality parts. backcountry. He was making $350 per trip and “living the dream.” But that didn’t seem to keep him busy enough, so he rented a small business space and started a rod- hen Randy Towe was 10 Towe not only continues to build building business just because it years old he asked his rods for himself, he also crafts them offered him a “therapeutic mother to buy him a $200 for others — all from his store in the opportunity to take a break from cWustom fishing rod. His mother Florida Keys. fishing.” didn’t agree with the investment, Infatuated with sport fishing, His brand, Captain Randy Towe’s so he convinced her to spend Towe moved to Islamorada at age Signature Series Handmade considerably less and purchase the 19. He mated on an offshore charter Rods, has become well known to necessary parts. The young fishing boat and earned enough money to dedicated anglers. fanatic then built his own rod. pay his $250-per-month rent and “I make everything from fly to Now more than 40 years later, cover his living expenses. heavy offshore trolling rods,”

18 Towe said. “I build exactly what from $300 to $1,400 apiece, but are the customer wants, how they crafted to last a lifetime. want it to feel and exactly what “There is nothing I build that I they want to do with it.” small version of a bonefish, don’t test,” Towe said. “And I'm Towe said his rods are all about redfish, tarpon or dolphin just the envy of everyone in the rod- fit, finish and top-quality parts. above the rod’s grip. manufacturing business because I When a custom rod is ordered, he When someone purchases a have the testing grounds of the discusses the project personally with Towe-built rod, he can rest Florida Keys in my own backyard. the customer. Among discussion assured that the entire package ”I can make a rod for every topics, Towe said, is “the look.” has been assembled by just one species of fish that swims off the Some people prefer specific person: Captain Randy Towe. Keys,” he said. colors to match their boat, “I used to have people help Many of Towe’s customers company logo or their favorite me, but some got very good, left come to him because they are sports team. Then there’s the and tried to go out on their own,” very serious anglers — some even choice of the blank — either he said. focused on breaking world fiberglass or high-tech graphite — Towe not only builds rods alone, records — and the rods become grip, a reel seat and guides... he also prefers to fish customers in highly prized possessions. whether in titanium or even gold. the same manner — whether it’s “I had to testify in court when a “Some like a lot of design in the backcounty for tarpon, couple got divorced,” Towe recalled. and flash,” Towe said. “Some bonefish an d snook on his 18-foot “They were arguing over a set of people are more interested in the Action Craft skiff or offshore for fly rods and reels. function, feel and action of the rod yellowtail snapper, sailfish, “She got them,” he remembered, rather than the bling.” blackfin tuna or dolphin fish on “and she had me take his name Towe even developed a thread- his 34-foot Pursuit. off of them.” wrapping technique that creates a Towe’s rods cost anywhere —Andy Newman U A E R U B S W E N S Y E K A D I R O L F / E R A C B O B Capt. Randy Towe, right, guides Greg Poland searching for mangrove snapper in Everglades National Park, near Islamorada.

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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 Ithinking about Hemingway 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 1982 was the year of the 400 1983 was the year of the 300 Tournament Is Born pounders with first prize going pounders. Only 4 ounces In 1982 the inaugural Key West to Key West attorney Jack separated the first and second Marlin Tournament took place Spottswood with a 462 pounder, place marlin winners and only 23 October 23 – October 25 with 92 aboard the Chelsea . Micky Rupp pounds separated the first boats and 400 anglers testing the aboard his boat Rupp Rigger through eighth-place marlin. waters south of Key West on the was the winner of the tag and Aboard Captain Dick Myers Fair Wall. It was a rousing success. release division with two marlin. Star angler Harold Shappel

24 landed a 328.12 pound blue took top honors in the release marlin to claim first place. Navy division. Captain Red Best commanding officer of the NAS Key West Base 1990 was back to the 500-pounders won the marlin tag and release and a new tournament record. The division fishing with Captain brother team of Captain Bryan Junior Rendueles. Bennett and Glenn Bennett fishing on the Thunnus captured a blue 1984 was the year of the 500 that weighed in at 570-pounds. pounders. Mary Jo Spence The release honors went to the Sea landed a 500-pound blue marlin Boots 34 angler Chuck Stitzel and to claim first place fishing aboard Capt. Todd Badd. the Mary Jo with captain Matt Borkowski. A second 500-pound 1991 featured all releases; first blue was weighed in on the last marlin release was angler Tom day of the tournament to take Daniels and Capt. Larry White second place based on time of fishing on the Chief , second catch. Angler Kent Smith aboard marlin release went to angler Capt. Frank Smith’s Renegade was Scott Ricket on the Serenity and the tag and release champ with the third marlin released went to two marlin releases. Warren Worlin Sr., fishing with his son Warren Worlin Jr. on the 1985 was the year of excitement Go Gether. and variety of catches. Angler Charles Lewis fishing aboard 1992 Angler Steven Lewis and the Amours with Captain Jr. Capt. Lindsay Forde on Rendueles captured the winning Freebee won first place, angler blue marlin with a 466.8 Phil Eaton and Capt. Ky pounder. Shirley Wood fishing to the tournament. A new Lewis on the Dazie Mae came aboard the Petticoat III with her tournament record was set by in second and angler Dennis husband Norman took top angler Rosie Morrison fishing Captik and Capt. Bill Wickers honors for most releases. aboard the Sea Boots with Captain Jim Sharpe, Rosie’s marlin aboard the Linda D IV took home third place. 1986 was the year of the small weighed in at 520 pounds. boats with two marlin in excess of Angler Gene Stone took top 300 pounds being caught in 25-foot honors in the release division. The Key West Marlin boats. Angler Findlay Sinclair’s Tournament Is Reborn 348.75 pound blue marlin took first 1988 returned to the year of the place, he was fishing aboard the 400-pounder. Angler Walter Milo 1999 Drambuie Key West Katherine Louise with Capt. Tom fishing with Captain Jay Weed Marlin Tournament Walker and Ed Allie. The second aboard the Lucky Two landed a The tournament is reborn with a place weight marlin went to angler 422.25-pound blue marlin to new and exciting scoring format Ramón Rodriquez and Capt. Pat make the winners circle. that keeps every boat in the Tuper. Bill Voegeli’s two tag and tournament until lines out on the releases were tops overall. First 1989 was once again the year of final day. In 1999 the first place tag, Sonny Boy , Sonny Tilman. the 300-pounder. Angler Roy boat in the marlin division was Second Tag, Sea Boots, Capt. Jim Spear fishing with Capt. Patrick the Talisman with angler Jim Sharpe and angler Todd Badd. Sheppard aboard the Dream Sharpe Jr. and Captain Mike made the winners circle with a Friday with 470 points. Second 1987 was the year of the 500- 300-pound blue. Angler Tim place boat was the CC Rider with pound blue marlin, as predicted Greene fishing aboard the 461 points. Third place boat was in the welcoming letter prior Beachcomber with Capt. Mike Cyr the Sweet Deal also scoring 461

25 The top wahoo was caught on Tournament the Lucky Charm by Rick Cresse. History continued 2003 Drambuie Key West Marlin Tournament The first-place boat in the 2003 points but losing second on time tournament in the marlin division of catch. was the Beachcomber , with captain Daryl Simeon and anglers Rick 2000 Drambuie Key West Kirvan, Matt Polumbo and Tim Marlin Tournament Greene, releasing two blue marlin The first-place boat in the marlin for the win. Second place went to division was the Summertime the Game Hunter , skippered by Lady II, with anglers Mike Alex Alder with anglers Brian Sullivan and Capt. Marco Gaona Baugher, Chris Claypool and and Mike Weinhofer. Second- Anthony Delduca. Get Lit place boat was Molly Good Heads captured third place with Captain with angler Jason Gilbert. Third- Ray Rosher and anglers Chris place boat was Leprechaun with Toomey and Peter Miller . angler Joe Richardson and Capt. In the Fun Fish Division top Andy Fortin. dolphin prize went to angler In the dolphin division the top David Lively on the Y2k with a dolphin were separated by only 50.5-pound dolphin. The Kilcare three pounds. The Do Fish with caught the largest tuna with angler Kevin Firestone weighed in angler Ned Dickman. The largest a 43.05-pound bull to take first tuna was caught on the boat Peg wahoo was captured by the Triple place. In second place was Talisman Leg with angler Alan Finnieston. Time with angler Rob Camis. with angler Jim Sharpe Jr.’s 42.65- pound bull. Third place was the 2002 Drambuie Key West 2004 Drambuie Key West Super Equity with angler Pete Marlin Tournament Marlin Tournament Rutskin with a 38.05-pound bull. Marking the 20th anniversary Miami Beach angler Bob of the tournament, the first-place Cristoph, Sr., caught and released a sailfish Saturday, 2001 Drambuie Key West winner was Mar-Joe with Captain adding points to his team’s tally Marlin Tournament Scott Henley, George Castro, and that included a released blue The first-place boat in the marlin Frank Bolin releasing three blue marlin and a 17.2-pound dolphin division was the Finesse with marlin to add their names to the angler Clay Harris and Captain Norman Wood trophy. The to win the 2004 tournament. Ken Harris. The second-place second-place trophy went to the Cristoph’s son Bob Cristoph, boat was Rampagous crewed with Bull Gator team, with Bob Sullivan Jr., Ryan Flannery and Bill Mosher angler John Crockett and and Bill Caulfield releasing two fished on the Hook , skippered by Captain Brett Taporowski. blue marlin. Third-place went to Rick Morrell of Miami. Third-place went to the boat Summertime Lady with one blue Randy Reynolds released a Looney Tunes with angler Bob marlin release based on time. blue marlin to give Business Calls’ Scerrato and Ed Steinmetz The Fun Fish Division first- team second place with Captain fishing with Captain Carl Rees. place dolphin was caught on Bill Rohde. In the dolphin division the top the Erica by Jimmy Butters Third place was garnered by prize went to angler Tom Payne weighing 35.35-pounds, the team of Sir Veza III . on the boat Relentless with second-place went to Sweet Deal In the Fun Fish Division top Captain Paul Ross. In the wahoo with Scott Fricke with a 32.2- dolphin prize went to angler division the top boat was Lucky pound dolphin and third-place Kevin Speidel on the Triple Time Charm with angler Rick Bodett was Super Grouper with Chip with a 37.25-pound dolphin. The and Captain Jay Weed. The top Veach weighing 29.95-pounds. Ambitious took first place in the

26 tuna division with a 66.3-pound Florida. More than 300 anglers yellowfin. Tim Trivett was the aboard 58 boats fished the 2006 angler with Mark Baumgarten tournament. on the Cowboy which took first place in the wahoo division with 2007 Drambuie Key West a 33.4-pound. Marlin Tournament Jeff Strack released a white 2005 Drambuie Key West marlin and caught a 22.6-pound MarlinTournament dolphin Friday, and released a The Julie Jean captained by blue marlin Saturday to give the Jimmy Robertson of Boca Giggling Marlin team a total of Grande, Fla., won the top prize in 822.6 points and the $25,000 top the 2005 edition of the Drambuie cash prize in the tournament’s Key West Marlin Tournament. marlin division. Finishing second was Dreamin’ The blue marlin hit a skirted On , skippered by Randy Hodgekis horse balao at about 9:30 a.m. with a marlin release and two Saturday, July 21, the third and dolphin weighing 21.1 and 28 final day of the tournament. pounds, with Steve Keinath and After that release, they Bob Strewe of Rifle, Colorado. continued fishing without success Business Calls was third, with a except for a small dolphin that blue marlin release and a 46.8- was below the 15-pound pound wahoo. The boat was minimum required for weigh-in. skippered by Bill Rohde with of fishing. They managed to On Course , skippered by Bill Darren Doop and Mark Staats. hook up another blue marlin of Currie, took second place with The largest marlin of the approximately 300-pounds and releases of a blue marlin and a tournament was estimated at fought it for over an hour. spearfish by Mike Zalewski of over 550 pounds, and released by Unfortunately, the release was Tampa and Dan Harrington of Bruce Wood fishing on the lost just inches from touching Terra Verde, Fla., respectively. Petticoat III with Capt. Norman the leader. However, they still In third place was Easy Rider Wood. went on to finish the day with skippered by Rob Harris of Bradley Wells, age 10, of the win and honor of having Cudjoe Key, Fla. Harris’ team Naples, Florida caught a 31.6- their names added to the combined a blue marlin release pound dolphin to win the dolphin Norman Wood Trophy. and catches of a 25.3-pound division. The second-place trophy was dolphin and a 39.65-pound awarded to The Finesse , captained wahoo, the largest wahoo of the 2006 Drambuie Key West by Kenny Harris with angler tournament. Marlin Tournament Andy Glyn of Marshfield, Mass. Captain Billy Wickers III, on Congratulations went to two Third place was garnered by The the charterboat Linda D V , won brother-in-law, Roy Miller of Janice 43 , skippered by Ed Wilson the tournament’s inaugural Jim Clearwater and John Burket of of Fort Myers, Florida, with Hardie Memorial Trophy for the St. Petersburg. The adventure angler Loren Farinelli of largest marlin released during began on the final day of fishing Lighthouse Pointe, Florida. In the the tournament. The impressive with just one 27.55-pound Fun Fish Division, The Key West fish had an estimated weight of dolphin while not having seen a Fire Department , captained by Ed 350 pounds and was caught by billfish during the first two days. Gates of Key West won the angler Micah McDowell of Fort With time running out, the dolphin category with a 55.2- Lauderdale, Fla. Serenity team realized their luck pound fish. The wahoo category Hardie, a former “Miami was changing as they caught went to The Lucky Charm with a Herald” outdoors writer who and released a blue marlin in the 53.1-pound wahoo reeled in by died in 2006, was the first first 20 minutes of the final day Richard McGinley of Ocala, journalist to write about the blue

27 (marlin), we said, ‘We’re back in Tournament it. Let’s do it.’ After the second History one, we went dolphin fishing.” continued After going through the polygraph test, Coll and Davis were happy with the victory, but exhausted after fishing so hard marlin fishery off Key West. In with such a short staff. 1981, Captain Norman Wood The Cajun Queen , made up of invited Hardie to Key West for a Greg Eklund and Mike Nichols, trip aboard the Petticoat III . When both of Islamorada, Fla., plus they returned, four marlin flags Brad Whitlock, Bob Whitlock, flew from the outriggers. Three and Trey Myers, all of Fort were released and one boated. The Myers, Fla., finished second. headline that followed several In third place was BFB with Jody days later proclaimed Briad of Key West, and Paul Barret, “Hemingway Never Had It So Paulette Barret, Donna Barret and Good.” Steve Tucker of Gulfport, Fla. Clay Harris of Key West, fishing In the Fun Fish Division, with his father Captain Ken Harris Robert Beck of Plant City, Fla., on the Finesse , caught the largest won with a 73.3-pound wahoo. dolphin at 48.95-pounds. Randy Sterling Sr., of Key West, Celebrating its 25th anni- was second with a 42.2-pound versary, the tournament had 324 little time for anything else as dolphin, and Robert Collins of participants fishing on 56 boats. they trolled as many as eight Miramar, Fla., was third with a The angling field tallied releases lines at the same time. 20.45-pound tuna. of seven blue marlin, two white “We’re running 7, 8 lines; I’m marlin and the spearfish. busy all day,” Coll said. “Changing 2009 Drambuie Key West baits, deweeding... I don’t have a Marlin Tournament 2008 Drambuie Key West lot of time to drink beer.” Rene Cruz, of the Dock Cruiser II, Marlin Tournament Early Saturday, Drambuie fishing with Rick Sheriff, won the Risky Business had an tournament chairman Tim tournament’s top prize of $25,000 operator error slowing their Greene informed Coll and Davis and their name added to the takeoff, then things got worse. that photographs showed the Norman Wood trophy. They The fish they had released marlin they thought they caught released a blue marlin on Thursday Friday was deemed by officials Friday was actually a sailfish. and weighed a dolphin weighing reviewing photographs to be a “We thought it was a marlin,” 23.05-pounds Friday to clenched sailfish, not a marlin worth 400 said Davis of Big Pine Key. “It the win with 423.05 points. points. While knocking off 350 never showed a sail, it never In second place was the points changed their strategy, indicated anything. Until a Shockwave fishing team with Danny Coll and Bernard Davis picture said something else, we Captain Marco Gano leading were not deterred. were all convinced.” his angler Jim O’Malley to The two-man team released The setback was shrugged off release a blue marlin estimated two marlin on Saturday and to weigh 550 pounds. The fish added a dolphin to win the quickly. was caught on the last day of Drambuie Key West Marlin “We had a plan today,” Coll fishing and was released after Tournament and the $25,000 said. “We knew this was a marlin four hours of hard fighting. first-place prize. “I have no tournament and went out That, paired with a dolphin words to describe this. It is (Saturday) expecting to catch weighing 21.45 pounds caught amazing,” said Coll of Cudjoe fish. So we changed our strategy, on Friday, gave them 421.45 Key, Florida. I thought, we’ve got to get away points to garner second place; Fishing on a 35-foot Cabo from baits and use all lures. less than two points out of first. sportfisherman, the team had “Once we got the first

28 Third place went to Cracker , Fla. and Laura Russell, also skippered by Mark Schultz with from St. Petersburg. angler Maurice Gibson releasing Third place was the Cajun a blue marlin on Thursday and Queen with Captain Greg Eklund catching a dolphin weighing and angler Jordan Wolk of 17.8 pounds on Friday for a total Tavernier, Fla. of 417.8 points. Bill Currie of the On Course 2013 Drambuie Key West was awarded the Jim Hardie Marlin Tournament Memorial Trophy. Mark Truett made the most of his first saltwater fishing trip, 2010 Drambuie Key West catching and releasing a 500- Marlin Tournament pound blue marlin to win the This was the year of the oil tournament. spill and the tropical storm. For Truett, of Duncan, Okla., six weeks before the tournament needed about 2.5 hours to land BP was trying to cap an oil well the blue. Later that day Bobby in the Gulf that was releasing Shannon caught a 17.9-pound millions of gallons of oil that was dolphin to add to the boat's forecast to enter into the gulf point total and give High Stakes loop current and come to the and the first-place prize. the $25,000 first-place prize. Florida Keys, which never Dan Richards released his fish, Capt. Jason Jonas, 27, said happened. There also were estimated to weigh 125-pounds, that he and his team were a tropical storm warnings during on Saturday and his teammate bundle of nerves during the the first day of fishing which Harry Cameron reeled in his final hours of fishing. fortunately never materialized. approximately 150-pound "We tried every opportunity The Contingent Sea with angler marlin on Friday, the second day to put more points on the Clayton Syfrett caught and of the tournament. board, but all the dolphin we released the winning marlin in the Ironically, both fish were caught were too small." last hours of the tournament to caught on the same lure, a It didn't matter. Even though capture the tournament win. green and yellow jethead, four other teams each released a Second place went to Whiskey within a mile of each other blue marlin, none of them Tango with Steve Doss and in and about the same time in third place was Dream Catcher weighed any fun fish. the mid-morning. with angler Brian Wenrick. The Perry Brown, of Jacksonville, On Course , captained by Bill first-place dolphin was caught by released a blue marlin Friday on Currie of Tampa, Florida, took Rob Gothier, Jr., fishing on the Bar High Class Hooker , skippered by South . The first-place tuna was second place with a blue marlin Gene Chrzanowski, of Key West. caught by Play Time with angler release and two weighed dolphin. Troy Martin, of Key West, Michael Cioffi and the first-place Blue Heaven , with Tampa released a blue marlin Saturday wahoo was brought in by Steve angler Steve Swindle, was third on Mr. Z with Key West captain Doss on the Whiskey Tango . with a released blue marlin and Phil "Curly" McGinn to finish The Jim Hardie trophy was a wahoo. third in the 31-boat fleet. awarded to Dave Claffy for his many contributions to the 2012 Drambuie Key West 2014 Drambuie Key West tournament. Marlin Tournament Marlin Tournament The Risky Business with Danny Gary Eng’s white marlin 2011 Drambuie Key West Coll and Bernard Davis released release, coupled with several Marlin Tournament a white marlin to gain first place dolphin catches, helped team Two Fort Myers, Florida, and win the $25,000. Ruckus win the Drambuie Key anglers each caught their first The second-place team was West Marlin Tournament. blue marlin to elevate the Moppy the Reel Darlins with Cyd Eng released his marlin on Dick II team to the top position Tuskowski of St. Petersburg, the first angling day of the

29 fish. For Giefer, the tournament Tournament was his first experience ever History fishing in saltwater habitats. "I continued credit the crew because they and receiving 400 points. put together a game plan This would become the last specifically targeting sailfish to three day angling contest to tournament to bear the Drambuie give us the lead," Giefer said. earn 400 points. name, and a new era would begin "We weren't on the water for The team ended the tournament with the addition of the Bacardi more than 40 minutes and had with 496.75 points, providing Oakheart sponsorship. the fish." Ruckus the edge to capture the Blue Heron , skippered by $25,000 first place prize. 2015 Bacardi Oakheart Shannon Fountain of Big Pine Team Ruckus also caught the Key West Marlin Tournament Key, Fla., finished in second with largest dolphin of the tournament Cowgirl, skippered by Phil a blue marlin released Friday by weighing in at 48.75 pounds. McGinn of Key West, garnered Mark Knowles of Key Largo, Fla. Second place went to OCD top honors and a $25,000 first- The team added to its score releasing a white marlin on the place prize at the 2015 Bacardi with a weight dolphin caught final day of fishing, by team Oakheart Key West Marlin. Saturday. member John Harris, and Angler Marty Crews of In third place for 2015 was releasing a sailfish by angler Cece Mound City, Kansas, released a Cracker with a blue marlin Imbrie for a point total of 450. white marlin on Friday, and released Saturday by Mark Third place was captured by Ben Giefer of Leawood, Kansas, Schultz of Fort Myers Beach, Fla. High Class Hooker , with angler Jeb released a sailfish on Saturday Jason Johnston of Johnson City, Teirney releasing a white marlin that proved to be the winning Tenn., skippered Cracker .

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31 Explore the Keys With an Eco-Tour Expert

in the region’s fascinating Q. What made “An Eco- natural environment. Tourist’s Guide to the Everglades & the Florida Keys” a book you Q. What sparked your passion had to write? for the Keys environment and “The Everglades and the the natural world? Keys form a natural itinerary “As a kayaker, it didn’t take for outdoorsy travelers, both long for me to get hooked on because water so intricately the Keys and Everglades connects their ecosystems and outdoors. And reporting because each area offers jewels about the local ecosystem clued you won’t find anywhere else me into how dynamic it is, and in the world. But nobody had obert Silk has a great how fragile. That gave those written a guide making that love for the Florida outdoor excursions deeper connection and catering Keys’ natural world. He meaning for me.” directly to that market.” dRiscovered that world after receiving his Master’s degree in journalism from the University of Miami, when he arrived in the Upper Keys to take a news- paper job. After 10 years of reporting for Keys publications, today he’s a travel writer for the national trade publication “Travel Weekly.” He tele-commutes from his home in Key Largo, blending work with as much Keys kayaking as possible. K L I S

Recently Robert’s outdoor T R E B outlook inspired him to write O R F O Y

“An Eco-Tourist’s Guide to the S E T R

Everglades & the Florida Keys,” U O C O which was released by the T O H University Press of Florida. P And here he offers insights into his favorite activities and places Author Robert Silk, enjoying his love of kayaking.

32 Q. What qualities make the price, that I’ve been to in Keys and the Everglades the southern Florida. perfect subject for an eco- “In the Lower Keys it’s hard to guide? the many sections where I write ignore Bahia Honda State Park, “The Everglades is undoubt- about local culture, local history with its postcard-perfect stretch edly the world’s most famous and the delicate balance of the of beach, but I also like looking wetland. The Keys are framed local ecology, I want them to for alligators at the Blue Hole in by the third largest barrier reef gain a sense of place. When the National Key Deer Refuge. in the world on one side, and on people feel more involved in an And the paddling in the Great the other side by shallow area, they naturally become White Heron National Wildlife estuaries dotted with a patch- stewards.” Refuge is both outstanding and work of tiny islands. On the practically limitless. very fringe of our area lies Dry Q. What are the best must- “From Key West, camping on Tortugas National Park, which I see spots or activities for Garden Key in Dry Tortugas think is the most spectacular environmental or adventure National Park is a must-do. single site in southern Florida. visitors in each Keys district? Closer in, the island is lots of And in total, the area I cover in “For Key Largo I’d have to go fun to bicycle and it also has an the book has three national with the diving and snorkeling. eclectic collection of botanical parks, 12 state parks and a There are fantastic reefs, such as gardens.” patchwork of federal preserves, Molasses and French, as well as sanctuaries and refuges that the landmark Christ of the Deep Q. What’s your favorite encompass some five million statue and a variety of wrecks activity in the Keys? acres of land and water. That’s a including the Spiegel Grove. “I’m a kayaker. I love exploring lot of material for an eco-guide.” “My favorite spot in Islamorada mangrove creeks and shallow- is Indian Key. A short paddle water flats. And on any given Q. What do you want your takes you to an island that is often excursion I never know what I’m book to communicate to almost empty, and has a great going to see — bald eagles, rays, readers? What feelings do you historical story to tell. manatees, tarpon, bottlenose hope it will inspire? “In Marathon I enjoy walking dolphin... I can kayak off my “I want readers to learn the Old Seven Mile Bridge. It’s a yard into a national park. Plus, about new things they can do in 4.5-mile round trip — all of it where else am I going to be able the southern Everglades and with fabulous views. Then I like to watch the manatees in the the Keys... find places they to stop off at Keys Fisheries for canal through my kitchen wouldn’t have known about what I’d say is the best raw bar, window?” without this book. And through when one combines quality and —Carol Shaughnessy K L I S T R E B O R F O Y S E T R U O C O T O H P

33 Five Ways to Enjoy Key West Like a Local U A E R U B S W E N S Y E K A D I R O L F / N A M W E N Y D N A

ne of the reasons so many people visit Key average visitor might not find out about or choose West each year is the island’s casual, quirky to spend time and energy experiencing. But you atmosphere. And the best way to absorb should — because they’re genuinely rewarding if Othat atmosphere is to forget you’re a visitor. you want an out-of-the-ordinary vacation that Instead, adjust your mindset. Stop thinking of creates lasting memories. yourself as a “tourist” and instead self-identify as “temporary local.” 1. Bike or stroll through Key West’s Old Town Why? Because if you adopt the “tourist” neighborhood, the largest predominantly mindset, you’re all too likely to limit your wooden historic district in the entire United experience to typical “tourist” activities. But if you States, as evening falls. It’s a simple activity, but a think of yourself as a local — even if it’s only for a very worthwhile one. Allow yourself to get lost few days — you’re more likely to search out and and simply wander, discovering lovingly restored embrace off-the-beaten-path pursuits that Victorian homes and cottages along narrow lanes, longtime residents enjoy. while enjoying the fragrance of luscious flowers For example, here are five pastimes that the drifting from behind white picket fences.

34 2. Try smoked fish dip at the tranquil afternoon swimming Hogfish Bar & Grill , a hard-to- and lazing beside the Atlantic find hideaway on Stock Island Ocean. “Fort Zach,” as the park just off Key West, sitting is affectionately nicknamed, is outdoors at a weathered picnic McCloud, who plays most renowned for its shady picnic table. The smoked fish dip afternoons. His tales and songs area cooled by ever-present combines a creamy texture with are spiced with irreverent humor. breezes — and its 1,000-foot a satisfyingly hearty taste, and beach that Key Westers regard the picnic tables overlook 4. Immerse yourself in as the island’s best. Spend some picturesque vessels moored creativity during neighborhood time snorkeling in the relatively along the dock — everything art strolls held monthly in Key deep near-shore water, spotting from houseboats decorated West. One of the best is staged colorful tropical fish around with exuberant island art to a on Upper Duval Street on the rocky promontories, or explore schooner with a fascinating first Friday of each month, while the weathered Civil War–era history. another (held on the third fort that gave the park its name. Thursday of each month) 3. Discover a Key West features White Street and a Every year, countless visitors locals’ hangout with great live portion of Truman Avenue. At flock to Key West for a vacation music: the Schooner Wharf both you can find unique visual escape from the stresses of Bar. Standing on the waterfront art, meet the Florida Keys the “real world.” When it’s in the Historic Seaport, it's the artisans who create it, and your turn to travel, do it the kind of funky open-air place explore intriguing galleries right way — by adopting the where you can bring your dog, alongside residents who are “temporary local” outlook, your girlfriend and half a passionate about the island’s enjoying away-from-the- dozen fishing buddies — and lively cultural community. mainstream offerings, and everyone will have fun. Try to embracing the easygoing vibe get there in time to hear 5. Head to Fort Zachary that makes the island so eccentric troubadour Michael Taylor Historic State Park for a appealing. 0 . 4 A S - Y B C M C [ O ) C . K T R O O P S W G N O W L B O . ( R S E O T H O A O L C V S H O T C S N I R O C C An iconic wayfinder sign at Fort Zachary Taylor beach. Seeing Key West the way the locals do — biking!

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37 2016 Hemingway Days Welcome...

rare quality of both wisdom and together, talked a bit about books innocence, childlike glee and and writing, and somehow Tom an uncanny depth of character. managed to work into the We were young then, we were conversation that I wasn’t well. lit from within by stars and The three of us went right away sunlight, and it seemed as if to Saint Mary’s — as if this had tragedy could never touch us. been Tom’s plan all along — and The world forever delighted and there Father Baker gave me a fascinated Tom, his pure joy and special blessing while Tom sat exuberance for life like a halo you there and smiled, I daresay a could almost touch. And he loved beatific smile. people so dearly. His humor, And then there came for Tom intelligence and altruism drew so the collapse of his spine, the many to him that I always felt multiple surgeries that left him blessed in his presence, as if the in constant debilitating pain. world were a safer and better Suffering though he was, the place with him in it. optimism I first saw in him when And it was, it truly was. we were young never once (Editors’ Note: Each year, Lorian Because Tom gave his heart to failed him, nor his faith, ever. He Hemingway writes a piece in these Key West and to so many who endured this crucifying pain with pages welcoming anglers and their were not only friends, but a courage that far surpassed grace guests to the Key West Marlin folks who never met him who under pressure. And Tom became Tournament. This year, however, she became beneficiaries of his fight for me a man beyond heroic. felt compelled instead to pay tribute for equality on all levels: as a We talked before one of his to the late Tom Oosterhoudt, one of champion and supporter of the surgeries, and I asked Tom what the most dedicated guiding spirits arts, as city commissioner, as the color candle he would like for behind Hemingway Days and the publisher of his own photo-essay me to light. “Make it blue, festival’s literary events.) magazine, as a loving and Lorian,” he said. “Blue as the devoted son, as someone who not sky. Sky blue.” In Loving Memory of only believed in One Human When the news came on a sky- Family, but who tried to make blue April day that Tom rested Tom Oosterhoudt that harmony a reality by both now in the arms of God, this word and action. mortal world lost some of the rnest Hemingway’s quote As we grew older health vastness of its magic. I wandered that “courage is grace under challenges rose up for us both. around my home, stared at pressure” has held meaning We often talked of our faith, nothing, not believing — refusing Efor me at different stages of my life, how it sustained us, although I to believe — it could be true. And but never has it borne such always sensed that Tom’s was far when I finally lay down to rest I poignancy as it does now, when I stronger than mine. Perhaps he heard as clearly as if he were remember the life and legacy of did as well because during that beside me, Tom’s words to me my friend Tom Oosterhoudt. time Tom brought the miracle spoken on one of our rides out to Tom was, and shall ever of yet another friendship into Stock Island: “Faith, Lorian. That remain, my hero twice over: first my life, that of Father John is what binds us. Promise me you when we became friends decades Baker. I will never forget our will always remember that.” And ago and I recognized in him that first meeting: we all had lunch I do. I promise. Oh yes I do.

38 39 The 36th Annual HEMINGWAY DAYS JULY 19-24, 2016

ans of adventurous living and writing can celebrate the legacy of Ernest Hemingway FTuesday through Sunday, July 19- 24. The 36th annual Hemingway Days salutes the vigorous Key West lifestyle and literary mastery of the author who lived and wrote on the island for most of the 1930s. Festival highlights include a look-alike contest for Hemingway imitators, prose and poetry readings and a three-day marlin tournament that pays tribute to Ernest’s passion for deep-sea angling. Some 125 burly, bearded contestants are expected to compete in the “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, 201 Duval St. Preliminary rounds are set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 21 and 22, with finalists facing off at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 23 . Visit www.sloppyjoes.com for contest registration and information. Held in conjunction with the festival is the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition coordinated by Ernest’s grand- daughter, author Lorian Hemingway. Each year the contest awards $2,500 to emerging writers.

40 For more information visit Wednesday through Saturday, www.shortstorycompetition.com . July 20-23. Participants can pursue The event’s other literary marlin and spearfish, sailfish, highlights include “Voices, Places, tuna, dolphin fish and wahoo Inspirations,” an evening of while competing for $50,000 in readings beginning at 7:30 p.m. guaranteed cash prizes. For Wednesday, July 20, at the Key information and registration, visit West Woman’s Club, 319 Duval www.keywestmarlin.com . U

St. At 5 p.m. Friday, July 22, fans A Other festival attractions include E R U B

of fine writing can discover S a 5k sunset run and paddleboard W E N

Hemingway’s little-known poetry S race, museum exhibits and a Y E K

in a Key West Poetry Guild A reception honoring Key West D I R O

reading at the Blue Heaven L literary legends, a street fair on the F / N restaurant, 729 Thomas St. A island’s Duval Street, the offbeat M W E

Anglers can emulate “Papa’s” N “Running of the Bulls” and a Y D N devotion to deep-sea fishing A birthday cake commemorating during the Bacardi Oakheart Key Visitors stroll on the entrance path of the the 117th anniversary of “Papa’s” West Marlin Tournament, set for Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum. July 21 birth. U A E R U B S W E N S Y E K A D I R O L F / N A M W E N Y D N A Ernest Hemingway Look-Alikes proceed on Duval Street during the annual "Running of the Bulls" last year. The whimsical and much safer answer to the event's namesake in Pamplona, Spain, is staged as a facet of Hemingway Days.

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43 “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike Contest Look-Alikes Add Fun to Festival ach July visitors can spot the spirit of Ernest Hemingway, (or even scores of “spirits”) Eon the island where the legendary author lived and wrote during the 1930s. That’s because approximately 125 stocky, white-bearded aspiring “Ernests” converge on Key West in July to compete in Sloppy Joe’s annual “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. Set for Thursday through Saturday, July 21-23, the contest takes place at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, 201 Duval St., where Hemingway often enjoyed cocktails with cohorts. The event is a highlight of the annual Hemingway Days celebration of the literary legend’s writing talent and colorful Key West lifestyle. U

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from around the United States to S W E vie for the title of “Papa.” Most N S Y E wear khaki safari garb or wool K A D I R fishermen’s sweaters that recall O L F / N

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6:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, N A July 21 and 22, with the finals at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The Charlie Boice, center, is congratulated by previous victors after winning the Hemingway hopefuls will be 2015 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. Boice finally won the contest judged by previous contest after trying for 15 years, beating out 121 other entrants following two winners including 2015’s Charlie preliminary rounds, a semi-final and two final rounds. Planting a playful smooch on Boice is Wally Collins, left, the 2014 winner. Boice of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, who triumphed on his 15th attempt. of Ernest’s July 21 birth and Florida Keys students. Before Thursday’s preliminary announce the recipients of Other look-alike highlights round, the “Papas” are to the Hemingway Look-Alike include Sloppy Joe’s “Running of celebrate the 117th anniversary Society’s scholarships for the Bulls,” inspired by the world-

44 renowned event in Pamplona, Spain, but featuring man-made bulls. Preceded by a photo opportunity for “Papa-razzi” at noon, the extravaganza begins at 1 p.m. Saturday outside Sloppy Joe’s. U U A A E E Prior to the contest events, R R U U B B S S

the bearded brethren will stage W W E E N N S S a “Meet and Greet” Wednesday Y Y E E K K A A at 5:30 p.m. at Sloppy Joe’s. D I D I R R O O L L F

Contestants and fans are / F / N N A A M

M welcome to attend. W W E E N N In addition, many ”Papas” Y Y D D N N A A prove their strength in the annual Celebrity chef Paula Deen cheers for her Sloppy Joe’s Arm-Wrestling Supporters of Richard Filip cheer on husband Michael Groover as he Contest. Registration is set for 10 their contestant during the final round of competes in the "Papa" Hemingway a.m. Sunday, July 24, with the the "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar. contest following at 11 a.m. Contest. U A E R U B S W E N S Y E K A D I R O L F / N A M W E N Y D N A Spectators at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla., use their mobile devices to record Gerrit Marshall's efforts to convince judges to choose him as the 2015 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest winner. Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote in Key West throughout the 1930s.

45 Food, Fun and Frivolity Hemingway Days Caribbean Street Fair The money LVA collects from the street fair – 100 percent of it – will be used to provide support for the organization’s program. This year the Caribbean Street Fair is sponsored in part by the Westin Key West Resort & Marina, located at 245 Front St. in downtown Key West. 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 www.lva-monroe.org .

nce again Literacy Volunteers “Running of the Bulls” beginning of America–Monroe at 1 p.m. outside Sloppy Joe’s Bar County will present the at the corner of Greene Street, COaribbean Street Fair, a highlight proceeding along a portion of of the subtropical summer, during Duval Street. Manmade bulls will the annual Hemingway Days be featured in this take-off on the festival. Saturday, July 23, Duval famous Pamplona event, in a Street will be closed to motorized salute to the love of bullfighting traffic from Front Street to Angela that inspired Hemingway to pen Street for the lively event. “Death in the Afternoon.” From 10 a.m. to 10 pm. vendors This is the second year that will man their colorful booths, Literacy Volunteers of America– offering their wares to pedestrians Monroe County has presented the strolling through the open-air Caribbean Street Fair. Founded in marketplace. Everything from 1984, the organization provides clothing to jewelry to art to literacy tutoring for adults and sumptuous ethnic and Caribbean families whose reading and foods and beverages will be writing skills are at grade-school available to satisfy fairgoers’ desires levels. LVA’s belief is that as they celebrate the exuberant proficiency in these skills will lifestyle of Ernest Hemingway. help individuals to increase their Bearded Hemingway Look- earning power and improve their Alikes will take part in a hilarious self-esteem.

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Hemingway Days 5k Sunset Run & Paddleboard Race

overall finishers, top three male and female masters, and top three male and female finishers in age categories ranging from 9 and under to 75 and over. Special medals also will be . K

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2 at the corner of Duval and South - 4 1 0 2 streets. Race packets can be © picked up there. unners, fitness walkers and course before finishing back at the Participants can register online paddleboard enthusiasts beach. at www.active.com or download can test their skills and The popular 5k run/walk is to registration forms by visiting cRelebrate Ernest Hemingway’s begin at 7:30 p.m. at the www.keywestspecialevents.com . sporting lifestyle Saturday, July Southernmost Point in the Forms also can be picked up at 23, during the Papa’s Pilar Rum continental United States, local hotels and fitness centers. Hemingway 5k Sunset Run/Walk oceanfront at Whitehead and The registration fee is $45 per and Paddleboard Race. South streets. Participants race adult for either race or $80 for The athletic challenges are part through picturesque Old Town both races. The fee includes a of Hemingway Days, a six-day Key West, past landmarks that collectible race tech shirt, food, commemoration of the life and include the Ernest Hemingway libations and giveaways. work of the author who lived and Home & Museum, as they wrote in Key West for most of the complete the flat 3.1-mile course. 1930s. Papa’s Pilar Rum is named Afterward, a post-race awards for Hemingway’s fishing boat, party is scheduled at the

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Attracting Worldwide Entrants Lorian Hemingway’s Short Story Competition

received major-market recognition to submit unpublished stories of up to 3,500 words to the competition. She and a panel of judges she has selected, including writers and other literary luminaries, read and evaluate each story as they search for new visions from unheralded talent . “We do not go by what is in U

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N will receive a cash prize of $1,500 A and publication of his or her Lorian Hemingway signs copies of “A World Turned Over” during a past winning story in “Cutthroat: A Hemingway Days celebration. Journal of the Arts.” Second- and third-place winners will receive ittle did Lorian Hemingway Canada, Australia and even $500 each. dream in 1981, when she China. All have submitted their The judges feel the responsibility started the celebrated short unpublished works hopefully, of ranking the entries while at the Lstory competition that bears her vying for top honors in the highly same time experiencing the joy name , that it would become an esteemed competition. of reading the works of as yet internationally renowned literary Lorian, granddaughter of unrecognized writers. challenge for aspiring writers. the late and legendary Ernest “As the competition has grown The number of entries has Hemingway, is an accomplished over the years, so has the level of increased from just 75 that year writer in her own right. She has our entrants’ talent,” Lorian says. to well over 800 for the 2016 written several critically acclaimed According to Lorian, some contest. books including “Walk on Water,” entrants from previous years While the 1981 competition “A World Turned Over” and have gone on to make their mark attracted mostly Florida writers, “Walking into the River.” in their chosen field, and she is this year’s has drawn entrants Each year she invites aspiring proud of — and grateful to — from Europe, Great Britain, Africa, writers whose works have not yet every one of them.

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The short story published here is Lorian Hemingway’s choice, the third-place winner from the 800-plus entries in the 2015 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. like a star balanced against a night sky. What do you see? Camila Pitanga asks you.

3. Camila Pitanga is the most beautiful woman in the world.

4. You are no Camila Pitanga.

5. Camila Pitanga is a Brazilian movie star. This fact becomes an aura that follows her everywhere she goes, like a trail of bent roses or a bridal train. It is what your husband is staring at when she approaches you at the party.

6. You, in contrast, are a thirty- Camila Pitanga five year old, African-American By Ladee Hubbard stay at home wife and mother 1. Are you coming to bed? He with a Master’s Degree in Camila Pitanga does not asks you. Cinema Studies. This is your first time in Brazil. Depending want your man. She has come to 2. give him back to you along with Inside the box the walls have on your prior history, these the gift of a wooden box carved been painted black. On one facts may require a certain by the manicured fingers of her side is a small opening; when amount of active imagining on left hand. you slide it back you see a flap your part, which is why point You shouldn’t have, you of dark paper hinged with a of view should be established tell her. piece of duct tape. On the other early on. Such preliminaries De nada, Camila Pitanga side is a square of aluminum are a crucial component of says. sheet metal, with a pinhole in composition: it’s all about point Inside the box are the pieces the center. The light on the of view. You may or may not of ice she has chipped from balcony of the hotel room experience a certain degree of your husband’s smile. where you sit shines through it disorientation as you adjust to

51 your host has read it. How nice Camila Pitanga that the two of them will finally continued have the chance to meet. the realization that this is who of cocktail chatter you find 13. you now are but do not worry. yourself standing near the hors- Everyone nods their head and This is common. This is normal. d’oeuvres table, gripping a does not stare at you. You smile glass of caipirinha while you back, waiting for someone, in 7. listen to your husband explain either broken English or slow You are concerned about the how the two of you met and motion Portuguese, to ask you way in which your insistence married in graduate school, about your field of study, which on a distinct point of view may how you put your studies they do not do. disrupt the flow of the overall on hold when you became narrative. There is always a pregnant with the son who is 14. point of view, of course. But currently clutching your thigh Your husband has asked that this insistence on specificity, with one hand and shoving fish you not cling to him at parties. your studied awareness of the balls into his mouth with the He wants you to engage people, way it shapes story seems to other. Seven years later you are to give them a chance. You will unavoidably draw attention to still AbD. Your husband is a never learn Portuguese until you itself, potentially becoming a PhD. Your son has ADD. actually try to communicate. He distraction or, worse yet, to is convinced that you know far reduce itself to an obsession 11. more than you are aware, that with mere spectacle. Your husband is now a rising you only need to push yourself. figure in the world of Brazilian Sometimes when he sees you 8. film studies. He wrote his walking towards him he shakes Similarly, it is entirely dissertation on a brief off shoot his head and turns the other way. possible that everyone is not of the Cinema Novo movement This is meant as encouragement. staring at you when you enter of the 1960s, the subtitle of the party on the arm of your which indicates his interest in 15. white husband. As your host the mass marketing of utopic Often you are walking leans forward to kiss your desire. Camila Pitanga’s father, towards him in order to pass cheeks, it is entirely possible the legendary actor Antonio along what you feel is important that everyone is not noticing the Pitanga, was the star of the information. For example: you fact that you are the only dark movie that formed the central cannot find your son. You’ve skinned woman present who is pivot around which his research looked everywhere but you not clutching either a white was based, model text of cannot find him. baby or a serving tray. This is what he argued was in fact a Or: could he talk to your son? perhaps your own hang up, new genre. He has now turned You found him on the terrace, an affect of your sense of his attention to contemporary with his head stuck between the dislocation in relation to the representations of race in railings. When you asked him space you now inhabit and Brazilian cinema, within what he was doing he told you reflects your continual efforts to which Camila Pitanga figures he was spitting on the cars negotiate the shifting terrain of prominently. This means the on the street below. You feel your given subject position. enchantment, like distance, is this is unacceptable. You would long standing. like confirmation that this is 9. unacceptable. Also, you do not speak 12. Or: you cannot find your son. Portuguese. And she is here somewhere, The last time you saw him he you are told as the three of you had his head stuck between the 10. pass through the door. It is railings of the terrace. It took you Your husband, in contrast, possible, though doubtful, that ten minutes to wedge his ears is fluent. Over the course she has even read his book. But out and then he ran off again

52 and now you cannot find him . little to say in response to such Or: you found your son. He a simple question?) was in your distinguished host’s study and has peed on 22. the man’s red leather sofa. nurture them. Within this Camila Pitanga walks What should you do? representational context towards you at a party, bathed creative reconstructions of all in her own radiance, flashing a 16. ready inhabited worlds are golden smile. It shocks you. Your husband squints at you. never, strictly speaking, utopic. You realize you are specific. He is mingling. More The more productive view Someone is throwing their arms importantly he is making would be to acknowledge them about you, kissing your cheeks, contacts. Somehow the as the careful rearrangement of clutching your hand. What has constant fuss of childcare has parts, a shuffling of signifiers happened? Camila Pitanga become your primary and tropes. All of which is says. What can I do to help? responsibility. You look back at simply to say that we enter dark him and feel bracketed by your rooms out of habit and already 23. choices, by the fact of loving well versed. You can see your husband some people who pee on sofas standing speechless in the while you are wearing silk, 19. corner, beholding all that other people who squint to Before this night is over your golden light, enraptured by its remind you that you have no son will make his way into your glow. He is not looking at you, business wearing silk. distinguished host’s study and as he should be. pee on his red leather sofa. You, 17. in a state of panic, will run to 24. Yet it is true: you push the kitchen seeking something This is all one brief moment through a series of doors at to wipe it up and find, of all in your life. Little more than random and find your son on things, Camila Pitanga standing the blink of an eye. But you the other side of one of them, before you with her arms hold on to it, trying to figure jumping up and down on a outstretched. out what you see. When your sofa, a dark stain spreading husband makes a show of across the front of his pants. 20. helping you into your coat at You bend down to clean it up Camila Pitanga rushes the door, it stays with you. and stain your dress. Stop what towards you at a party with When you are in the cab riding you are doing, look around the her arms outstretched. It is back to the hotel, staring out room at the papers scattered understood before a word is the window at the skyscrapers across the floor and think, now spoken that she has mistaken and crowded streets of what? you for someone else. Copacabana it stays with you. When you are in your hotel 18. 21. room, standing alone on the Certain forms of aesthetic There is something sad balcony and you hear your criticism are predicated on about the fact that you are at husband call you to bed, it evaluations of the success or first confused by this, certain stays with you. A single frame failure of creative manipulations she has mistaken you for now etched in memory. of audience expectation. The someone else. But then she is implication being that any asking you to tell her your 25. deviation from the normative name which means she is Ultimately, that is the gift necessarily, in and of itself, aware she does not all ready Camila Pitanga gives you: the implies the norm. The coherency know it. (Why you? You possibility of other worlds and of subcultures implies the wonder. Not, why not you? the beauty of your persistent presence of hegemony. Anti- When did you begin to confuse ability to perceive them. An establishments are predicated yourself for something so exchange of light, the promise on the establishments that small, someone who had so that what you experience

53 Ladee Hubbard is a writer from cConatimnueild a Pitanga New Orleans. ”Camila Pitanga” was the third-place is real and valid and might winner in the 2015 competition simultaneously constitute an 27. and has appeared in the Beloit offering. You are both an act of Inside the box are the Fiction Journal. An earlier draft faith and self-aware. invitations to all the parties you of her first novel, which she is would have rather attended. now editing, was first runner- 26. up for the Faulkner-Wisdom What do you see, Camila 28. Creative Writing Competition Pitanga asks you. What do Inside the box is a single star for the Novel. you see? balanced against a night sky.

54 RecallingKey West’s Creative Heritage Hemingway Days Literary Events

seen at 513 Truman Ave. Both “meet-the-authors” reception. exhibitions continue throughout The spotlight returns to the the festival and beyond. Custom House Museum at Contemporary writers star in 5 p.m. Thursday, July 21, for a the “Voices, Places, Inspirations” presentation titled “People readings set for 7:30 p.m. and Places That Influenced Wednesday , July 20, at the Key Ernest Hemingway” by Nancy West Woman’s Club, 319 Duval Sindelar, Ph.D. An internationally St. Scheduled participants include acclaimed Hemingway scholar, noted Irish novelist Denyse Sindelar penned “Influencing Woods, who recently bested 2,100 Hemingway: The People and Places Irish novelist Denyse Woods, winner of the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest. other writers to win the Florida That Shaped His Life and Work.” Keys Flash Fiction Contest; Chuck A reception follows at 6 p.m. Ball, author of “Hemingway’s The next evening at 5 p.m., rich roster of literary events Heist” among others; Steven Hull, festival attendees can discover the awaits readers and writers creator of the edgy Hunter Benson little-known poetry that helped during Hemingway Days series; Mandy Bolen Miles, launch the literary legend’s writing 2A016, set for Tuesday through renowned for her “Tan Lines” career. The Key West Poetry Guild Sunday, July 19-24. books and columns; and Terry presents “The Poetry of Ernest The festival celebrates the Schmida, whose “True Crime” Hemingway,” which also features literary accomplishments and series chronicles criminal deeds in guild members’ work, at the Blue exuberant Key West lifestyle the Florida Keys. Heaven restaurant, 729 Thomas St. of legendary writer Ernest The event is presented by — a site where Ernest refereed Hemingway, who lived on the Literacy Volunteers of America– neighborhood boxing matches island throughout the 1930s. Monroe County and includes a in the 1930s. Hemingway Days opens with a museum day Tuesday, July 19, honoring Key West’s two most famous writers. Literary fans can view “Depicting Hemingway,” featuring renowned artist Guy Harvey’s original sketches illustrating Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” at the Custom House Museum, 281 Front St. An exhibit exploring playwright Tennessee Williams’ long residence in Key West can be

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throughout the 1930s and wrote the island while exploring his some of his most enduring beliefs and legacy. Highlights classics. 907 Whitehead St. For include personal photographs of info and ticket prices, visit Williams at home with his partner . www.hemingwayhome.com and friends, first-edition plays and books, a typewriter he used in TUESDAY Key West and much more. 513 JULY 19 Truman Ave. behind the Key West Business Guild Visitor 9:30 A.M.-4:30 P.M. — “Depicting Center. Free admission; donations Hemingway” museum exhibition. accepted. Exhibition continues Discover 59 original pen- throughout Hemingway Days and-ink drawings by world- and beyond. For info, visit renowned marine wildlife artist www.twkw.org . Guy Harvey — all providing a visual narrative to Ernest WEDNESDAY Hemingway’s “The Old Man JULY 20 and the Sea.” The sketches are 4 P.M. paired with rare artifacts from — Final registration for the Hemingway’s Key West years, Key West Marlin Tournament. as well as a life-sized bronze of Anglers compete for $50,000 in the author. Custom House guaranteed cash prizes for Museum, 281 Front St. Mention targeting marlin, spearfish, dolphin HEMINGWAY Hemingway Days upon fish, tuna and wahoo. Dante’s Key entering and receive discounted West Pool Bar and Restaurant, DAYS 2 016 admission. The exhibition upstairs, 951 Caroline St. For info, continues throughout Hemingway visit www.keywestmarlin.com. July 19-24 Days and beyond. For info, visit 5:30 P.M. www.kwahs.org . — Meet the “Papas.” Get to know the contestants and DAILY 10 A.M.-5 P.M. — Tennessee previous winners of the “Papa” Ernest Hemingway Home & Williams Key West Exhibit. Learn Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. Museum guided tours. Visit the about playwright Tennessee Sloppy Joe’s, 201 Duval St. For home where Hemingway lived Williams’ longtime residence on info, visit www.sloppyjoes.com .

56 6-8 P.M. — Key West Marlin contest winners. Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Tournament captains meeting, $35 entry fee. Free to watch. For auction and raffle. Dante’s Key more look-alike event info, visit West Pool Bar and Restaurant, www.sloppyjoes.com . upstairs. 6:30-8 P.M. — Key West Marlin 7:30-10 P.M. — “Voices, Places, Tournament cocktail party and Inspirations.” This evening of island-style pig roast. Dante’s Key readings features authors including West Pool Bar and Restaurant, Chuck Ball, Steven Hull, Mandy upstairs. Free to tournament Miles and Terry Schmida — plus a participants. special appearance by noted Irish novelist Denyse Woods, winner of FRIDAY the international Florida Keys JULY 22 Flash Fiction Contest. Presented by Literacy Volunteers of America– 8:30 A.M.-4 P.M. — Key West Monroe County, the event also

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JULY 21 N challenge using traditional A “Cuban yo-yos.” Conch Republic 8:30 A.M.-4 P.M. — Key West features a reception marking the Seafood Co. docks, 631 Greene St. Marlin Tournament first day of 117th anniversary of Ernest’s July Free to watch. For info, visit fishing. For more info, visit 21 birth. Custom House Museum. www.papalookalikes.com . www.keywestmarlin.com . For info, visit www.kwahs.org . 4-6 P.M. — Key West Marlin 9 A.M. 5:30 P.M. — Coffee and Donuts — Sloppy Joe’s Tournament weigh-in. Dante’s with the “Papas.” Join past Look- Birthday Party for “Papa.” Key West Pool Bar and Restaurant, Alike Contest winners and current Celebrate Ernest’s birthday stage area. competitors for a lighthearted (complete with cake) alongside 5 P.M. “coffee break” at Cypress House, a former winners and contestants in — “The Poetry of Ernest historic inn at 601 Caroline St. the “Papa” Hemingway Look- Hemingway.” The Key West Visit www.papalookalikes.com . Alike Contest. Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Poetry Guild presents a reading of For look-alike event info, visit Hemingway’s poems and guild 4-6 P.M. — Key West Marlin www.sloppyjoes.com . members’ work — and chronicles Tournament weigh-in. Dante’s the poetry that helped launch 6 P.M. Key West Pool Bar and Restaurant, — Hemingway Look-Alike Ernest’s writing career — at Blue stage area. Society scholarship presentations. Heaven, a site where he once The society is to announce the refereed neighborhood boxing 5 P.M. — “People and Places That winners of its annual scholarships matches. 729 Thomas St. For info, Influenced Ernest Hemingway” for Florida Keys students. Onstage email [email protected] . presentation and reception. at Sloppy Joe’s Bar. For info, visit 6:30-8 P.M. Join internationally acclaimed www.papalookalikes.com . — Key West Marlin Hemingway scholar Nancy Tournament dockside cocktail 6:30 P.M. Sindelar, Ph.D., to examine the — Sloppy Joe’s 36th party and fish fry. Dante’s Key individuals, locales and adventures annual “Papa” Hemingway Look- West Pool Bar and Restaurant, that helped shape the literary Alike Contest, first preliminary upstairs. Free to tournament legend’s work. The evening also round, to be judged by former participants.

57 6 P.M. — Lazy Dog Paddleboard Hemingway Days Race. Competitors follow a 3-mile Atlantic Ocean course that cSonctihnued dule begins and ends at Key West’s Southernmost Beach, 1405 Duval St. on the ocean. For more 6:30 P.M. — Sloppy Joe’s 36th information and registration, visit annual “Papa” Hemingway Look- www.keywestspecialevents.com . Alike Contest, second preliminary 6:30 P.M. round, to be judged by former — Key West Marlin contest winners. Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Tournament awards banquet and $35 entry fee. Free to watch. silent auction. Cocktails and silent auction are set for 6:30, with the 8:30-11 P.M. — Key West dinner and awards presentations Marlin Tournament Party with at 7:30. Open to tournament the Bacardi Oakheart Team. participants and their guests Enjoy an exuberant gathering for only. Westin Key West Resort & tournament participants. Marina, 245 Front St. 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY — Sloppy Joe’s 36th JULY 23 annual “Papa” Hemingway Look- Alike Contest, final round, to be 8:30 A.M.-3 P.M. — Key West judged by former contest winners. Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Free to watch.

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Volunteers of America–Monroe A M W County. Much of Key West’s E States at Whitehead and South N Y D famed Duval Street is closed to N streets, and proceed through Old A vehicular traffic and transformed Town Key West. A post-race awards party is scheduled at the into an open-air island market Street outside Sloppy Joe’s. For Southernmost Beach Café. For with arts, crafts, jewelry, tropical info, visit www.sloppyjoes.com . clothing and food For info, visit information and registration, visit 3-5 P.M. www.keywestspecialevents.com . www.lva-monroe.org or email — Key West Marlin [email protected] . Tournament weigh-in. Dante’s SUNDAY NOON Key West Pool Bar and Restaurant, —Photos with “Papas.” stage area. JULY 24 Hemingway look-alikes provide a 3-7 P.M. 10 A.M. photo opportunity for fans. Greene — Papa’s Pilar Rum — Sloppy Joe’s 30th Street outside Sloppy Joe’s. For Hemingway 5k Sunset Run/ annual Hemingway Days Arm info, visit www.sloppyjoes.com . Walk and Paddleboard Race Wrestling Contest. Registration is 1 P.M. registration. Register and pick up set for 10 a.m. and the contest — Running of the Bulls. race packets for the popular run begins at 11 a.m. Prizes await male This wacky event is sponsored by and paddleboard challenge. and female winners in multiple Sloppy Joe’s Bar and features past Southernmost Hotel parking lot, weight divisions. Sloppy Joe’s Bar. ”Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike corner of Duval and South $5 entry fee; free to watch. For Contest winners dressed in their streets. $45 entry fee for either info, visit www.sloppyjoes.com . Pamplona best — and a breed of race or $80 for both. For more “bull” found only in Key West. The information and registration, visit This is a preliminary schedule and is fun begins and ends on Greene www.keywestspecialevents.com . subject to change.

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Where to Get a Florida Keys ‘Flavor Fix’ cores of visitors envy Florida Keys “locals” who create satisfying lives full of Sauthentic pleasures and natural fudge and specialty chocolate bark only at the restaurant/bakery at ingredients. But visitors too can with Key lime and pistachios. MM 81.6, lime lovers can pick up enjoy the indigenous flavors of the Perhaps the quirkiest creations Bundt cakes and cookies there or Keys, and even take home tasty are Thomas’s chocodiles — order them at www.bobsbunz.com . “souvenirs” to help sustain them whimsical 9-inch-long crocodiles until their next vacation escape. made of white or dark chocolate. Head down the Florida Keys Nearly everyone who journeys Those with a sweet tooth will Overseas Highway through to the island chain samples locally delight in visiting the shop, and Marathon and, shortly before caught seafood and locally made treats can be ordered for shipping the Seven Mile Bridge begins, Key lime pie. Both are excellent at www.keylargochocolates.com . starting points for an exploration into the region’s unique edibles — Key lime pie, which originated but much more is available to in Key West in the late 1800s, was savor as well. The Keys are home to artisan food crafters, a master chocolatier, beekeepers and even a saltmaker whose wares can be relished during visits and later as treats at home. make a sharp right onto Gulfview At the head of the Keys in Key Avenue. Perched right on the Largo, for example, the Florida waterfront at the end of the short Keys’ premier chocolatier can be street is one of the best casual found at mile marker (MM) 100.5 seafood restaurants in the Keys: bayside. Key Largo Chocolates is voted Florida’s official pie in 2006 Keys Fisheries . Try the fresh by the state legislature. But Bob’s stone crab claws, peel-and-eat Key Bunz , a friendly Islamorada West shrimp and savory conch “comfort food” restaurant and chowder. And the eatery’s famed bakery, features the tiny limes in Lobster Reuben makes even other sweet temptations including stubborn New Yorkers abandon Bundt cakes and yummy bite-size traditional corned-beef Reubens cookies. for their seafood “cousin.” No trip to the Upper Keys is As well as being a favorite spot complete without visiting the for locals and visitors, Keys emporium, whose name comes Fisheries ships seafood (including the brainchild of Kristie Thomas, from the legendary (and gigantic) the yummy Lobster Reuben) to who infuses local flavors into cinnamon and sticky buns created those craving a taste of the island handmade chocolate confections. by owner Robert “Bob” Spencer. chain. Orders can be placed at Standouts include luscious truffles, While the “bunz” can be purchased www.keysfisheries.com .

64 Few things flavor a dish like artisanal salt, and Lower Keys residents Midge Jolly and Tom Jolly and Weyant’s sustainable S A N

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can be purchased at SALT Island F F E J Y

Provisions, located at 830 Fleming B O T O

St. in Key West, or ordered at H P S A N E www.SaltIslandProvisions.com . D R A C said SALT owner Jeffrey Cardenas, Y E R F

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O the place to discover other www.SaltIslandProvisions.com . T O H

P intriguing products from Florida “It comes straight out of the hives.” Keys artisans, including raw and Weyant harvest 100 percent solar- unprocessed small-batch honey As enticing as these items evaporated sea salt on their Earth whose distinct flavors can’t be are, they’re only a sampling of & Sea Farm. Their Florida Keys found anywhere else in the world. the foodstuffs produced by Sea Salt is described as an all- The delicacy is produced by creative spirits in the Florida Keys. around cooking and finishing salt, independent beekeepers who Additional offerings include and the natural rhythm of its have hives around the Lower mango wasabi and rum mustards, hand-harvested production harks Keys, and favorites include red rich and creamy smoked fish dip, back to the Keys’ saltmaking mangrove honey. Key Largo’s renowned Bees N The tradition of the 1800s. “It’s a beautiful, rich honey that Keys honey and even Key lime For more information about grows at the edge of the ocean,” dog treats.

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