Volume 27, Number 20 · December 18, 1980
A Clean Well-Lighted Place
By George Plimpton
This is part of a speech made at a dinner on July 18, 1980, to commemorate the opening of the Hemingway Room in the Kennedy Library on Columbia Point, Boston. In attendance at the dinner—which was held in the great glass-fronted foyer of the I.M. Pei building and at which were served dishes and drinks described in his books (Hemingway's own Papa Doble rum concoction among them)—were members of the Hemingway family (though not Hemingway's widow, Miss Mary, who was indisposed), Mrs. Aristotle Onassis, representing the Library, and more than one hundred Hemingway scholars.
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