It was the outdated man and the ocean of clones.
In celebration of famend creator Ernest Hemmingway’s 125 birthday on Sunday, a bar in Key West Florida hosted its annual lookalike competitors of the penman.
The competition on the native watering gap Sloppy Joe’s Bar, one in every of the celebrated author’s favourite hangouts, celebrates what Hemmingway referred to as mainland America’s southernmost level his dwelling within the Nineteen Thirties.
Greater than 120 white-bearded contestants got here in hopes that the bell would toll for thee on Sunday after preliminary elimination rounds earlier final week.
After 10 earlier makes an attempt, 71-year-old David “Bat” Masterson, a retired helicopter pilot from Daytona Seashore, was topped this yr’s “Papa” — a nickname given to the novelist throughout his life, in response to The Related Press.
Hemingway’s spirit of journey — he cherished massive sport fishing throughout the globe together with baseball, boxing, bullfighting and loads of consuming — is one other main a part of the competitors.
“I believe it’s a break up, and I believe that’s what’s enjoyable,” his great-grandson Stephen Hemingway Adams mentioned of these admiring the late creator’s writing and outdoorsmanship.
Masterson himself mentioned he has “a thirst for all times and a quest for journey” as effectively, he advised CBS Miami.
“I wish to fly and journey bikes and soar out of airplanes and that kind of stuff…And Hemingway was a really adventurous man, and I love him for that.”
The competitors additionally featured a fake working of the bulls down the streets of the vacationer isle.
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