STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
“Fathers and Sons” will be the theme of the 2023 Ernest Hemingway Seminar at The Community Library.
The seminar will kick off the evening of Thursday, Sept. 7 and will continue through 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9.
It will focus on six of Hemingway’s short stories: “Indian Camp,” “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” “My Old Man,” “Then Indians,” “Fathers and Sons” and “An African Story.”
The opening keynote speaker will be Marc Seals, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Baraboo. He will be joined by Stacey Guill and Clyde Moneyhun of Boise State university.
Verna Kale, associate editor of The Hemingway Letters Project and on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, will give the concluding keynote followed by an early evening reception on the library’s patio.
The seminar costs $95 to attend in person and $30 to attend virtually. Register to attend in person at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/10739230. Register to attend virtually at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/10739137.
The inaugural Ernest Hemingway Symposium started in 2009. Since, the seminar has focused on such topics as Hemingway and the masculine persona, how Hemingway continues to influence authors and readers 50 years after his death, Hemingway’s Cuba and Hemingway and nature.