Open House Planned for Ernest Hemingway Birthday Celebration

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation next weekend will celebrate Hemingway's birthday with an open house at the Hemingway Birthplace and Museum on Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21. 

The foundation will cap off the weekend with a Sunday celebration, featuring guest speaker Liesl Olson, exploring "Hemingway and Chicago," and the announcement of the foundation's first Writer in Residence. 

Olson is the director of the School Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She held a national endowment for the humanities fellowship in 2011-12 and an NEH/Mellon Foundation fellowship at the Newberry Library in 2010-11, according to her website. 

In 2013, Olson will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, focused on Chicago, "as the center of a new modernist geography. 

Read more about Olson here.

Schedule of Events 

Saturday, July 20 

Tours of the Hemingway Museum and Birthplace, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sidewalk Hemingway Book Sale, Oak Park Avenue & Lake Street, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Lemonade & Pastries on the Porch, Hemingway Birthplace Home, 339 N. Oak Park Ave., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s first Budding Literary Masters Awards, Hemingway Birthplace Home, 7 p.m.—9 p.m.

Sunday, July 21

Tours of the Hemingway Museum and Birthplace, 1—5 p.m.

Sidewalk Hemingway Book Sale, Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street, 1—5 p.m.

Exclusive Tastings, Papa’s Pilar Rum, Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Ave., 6—10 p.m.

Live Music by Pennies from Heaven, Hemingway Museum, 6—10 p.m.

Appetizers & Cocktails by Maya Del Sol, Hemingway Museum, 6—10 p.m.

Announcement: 2013-2014 Writer in Residence, Hemingway Museum, 6—10 p.m.

Guest Speaker: Liesl Olson, Ernest Hemingway in Chicago, Hemingway Museum, 7 p.m.

Tickets are $30, or $25 for members. More information here.

Source: Ernest Hemingway Foundation website