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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Cuba, US experts try to save Hemingway home

Cuba, US experts try to save Hemingway home
(AFP) – 4 hours ago

HAVANA — US and Cuban experts are teaming up to try to save the Cuba
home where Ernest Hemingway lived for more than two decades and penned
his classic "The Old Man and the Sea," official media said Wednesday.

Cuba's National Patrimony office chief Margarita Ruiz inked an agreement
with the private US Finca Vigia Foundation to step up efforts to
preserve and restore Finca Vigia villa.

The colonial home outside Havana is now crumbling in some places, the
Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma reported.

It did not put a figure on the cost of saving the whitewashed home the
US foundation says is "filled with original furniture, 9,000 books,
artwork, and several thousand irreplaceable letters, photographs,
documents, and manuscripts.

"The preservation of the documents and repair of the villa must occur
immediately, before all is lost forever," the Boston-based US foundation
says on its website.

The Nobel prize winner's home here officially has been a Cuban museum
since 1961.

Though Cuba and the United States do not have full diplomatic ties they
have seen cultural exchanges increase somewhat since US President Barack
Obama took office a year ago.

AFP: Cuba, US experts try to save Hemingway home (20 January 2010)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i9jhnOszHUuYMCrbhqtvZaswytdw

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