The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Cuban Embargo Hinders Efforts to Restore Hemingway Estate

By Suzanne Perry

Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Cuba while writing The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and other works, left behind a stucco villa outside of Havana filled with furniture, artwork, books, and letters.

The estate, Finca Vigia (Overlook Farm), serves today as a small oasis of Cuban-American cooperation at a time when...

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