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(PETOSKEY, Mich)—A celebration is planned in downtown Petoskey’s Pennsylvania Park for Sunday, July 22 by The Michigan Hemingway Society to commemorate Ernest Hemingway’s 119th birthday. This is the 4th year of the birthday celebration and the first since the young Hemingway statue by Andy Sacksteder was dedicated on July 21, 2017 by the daughter of donor Robert Jensen Dau.  

The event begins at 1:30 next to the young Hemingway statue which stands in the park and will include ice cream and cake, music by Robin Lee Berry, readings by local actors, a roundtable discussion in the Hemingway Room at City Park Grill and a free viewing of the new documentary produced locally, “Young Hemingway & His Enduring Eden.”

Hemingway’s actual birth date is July 21, 1899 and it was six weeks later that he first visited here. He would come with his family to this corner of the northern lower peninsula for the next 20 summers. He then was married in a Horton Bay church in the fall of 1921, and honeymooned with his first wife, Hadley, at the family cottage on Walloon Lake, before moving to Paris – and finding recognition as a writer a few years later through his stories about people and places in the region around Walloon Lake.

That first summer, he was witness to, but probably did not remember, the building of the cottage. Called “Windemere” by his mother and father, the small cottage – remodeled and enlarged in the 1990s – still stands on its original location and is still owned and occupied by a family member, Ernest Mainland, Hemingway’s nephew and namesake.

Robin Lee Berry, who wrote and performs the documentary’s theme song, “Gone Wild,” will kick off the celebration in the Gazebo at Penn Park at 1:30 p.m. accompanied by Glenn Wolff.  This will be followed at 2 p.m. by a cake cutting ceremony and ice cream for all those on-hand at the event. There also will be a letter writing station for children to participate in the tradition of writing summer vacation letters complete with a Hemingway Postal Stamp.

Readings from Hemingway’s earliest published work about Northern Michigan will then be presented by Dale Hull and Eric Grandstaff, both active in local theater. And from the River Walk Theatre group in Lansing, Michael Hays will present segments from his starring role in “The Hemingway Play,” a highly acclaimed play written for PBS presentation and now being performed by local theaters across the country.

At 3:30 p.m., a round table discussion open to the public will examine young Hemingway’s life in northern Michigan – and his published writings about that life.

The session will be held in the Hemingway Room at City Park Grill and will be led by members of the Michigan Hemingway Society. A cash bar will be available for those attending the discussion.

The day’s celebration concludes with a 5 p.m. screening at the First Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Mitchell and Division Streets, of the new 75-minute documentary entitled “Young Hemingway & His Enduring Eden,” the latest work from Contemporary Learning Systems, Inc. by local producer-director Dr. George Colburn.  There is no charge to attend the screening. Tickets will be available earlier in the day at the park and at City Park Grill.

Colburn’s documentary premieres a few days later at the International Hemingway Conference in Paris on July 26. He will be on hand at the church to answer questions following the screening. Over the past three years, previews of earlier versions of the documentary have been screened on Hemingway’s birthday.

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A reception sponsored by the Michigan Hemingway Society will begin the evening’s events at 6 P.M. and will feature a performance by singer/songwriter Robin Lee Berry of Boyne City who created the documentary’s theme song, “Gone Wild.”

Tickets for the event are $10 per person, but active duty military personnel and those under 18 will be admitted free of charge.

The film was produced by Starbright Media Corp, a Petoskey-based production company, for Contemporary Learning Systems, Inc., (CLS), a Walloon Lake-based non-profit corporation that supports the production and distribution of informational and educational programming for television, the classroom and the Internet. The 90-minute Young Hemingway documentary was written and directed by George A. Colburn, Ph. D., a resident of Melrose Township.

The documentary and education project began in 2012 at the international conference of the Hemingway Society which met for the first time in its history at Bay View and other Petoskey area locations. The final pre-broadcast screening of the documentary will be held in July of this year at the Society’s gathering in Paris, France at the American University.

According to Colburn, “Broadcast and Internet outlets for distribution of the documentary will be sought by CLS after the summer event in Paris. We hope it will air on public television stations nationwide in 2019.”  The next step for the project is to secure funding for a series of electronic educational modules that will contain segments of the documentary,”  Colburn added.

The documentary’s major funders include the Meijer Foundation, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Michigan Humanities Council, Ernest and Judith Mainland, the late Robert Jensen Dau and the late Paxson Offield.

Colburn is quick to point out that he could not have finished the program without numerous additional donations from local organizations, companies and individuals, including the Bay Harbor Foundation, the Petoskey Area Visitors Bureau, Boyne USA, and the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation.

More information about the documentary may be found on the project’s website, www.HemingwaysMichigan.com, or by calling 231.535.2440.

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