Michigan Hemingway Society: Goals and Objectives

The Michigan Hemingway Society
has been active for many years, but was incorporated officially as a non-profit organization in 1993. The group's volunteer energies have been focused ad hoc on such events as its annual Hemingway weekend held in Petoskey, Michigan, each October.

The Michigan Hemingway Society is made up of university professors, writers, high school teachers, fly fishers, journalists, and all kinds of other people who are interested in exploring the body of literature created by this Nobel prize-winning author.

Goals and objectives of the group include:

To encourage the study of Hemingway's relationship to Michigan in his life and work

To collect, interpret and preserve artifacts, memorabilia and places connected with Hemingway

To make available to the public, the knowledge and interpretations of Hemingway scholars and researchers

To sponsor annual Hemingway weekends in Petoskey, where he spent his boyhood summers and was inspired to use northern Michigan people, settings and incidents as a basis for his early writing (especially the Nick Adams stories)

To publish literary materials illuminating Hemingway's life and work

To publish such materials as might help researchers locate the places in northern Michigan which figure in Hemingway's life and fiction

To celebrate in 1999, the centennial of Hemingway's birth in cooperation with the National/International Hemingway Society and the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Illinois.

To support the archival and exhibition capability of the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University, official institutional home of the Michigan Hemingway Society; and to support the acquisition of additional Hemingway related materials through the Hemingway Endowment.

TO JOIN THE SOCIETY:
It is a simple matter to be part of this group, to have access to its resources, and to assist in its work. Annual membership is $10.00. These funds are used to produce and distribute occasional newsletters as well as to support the goals and objectives listed above. Life membership is conferred for a contribution of $100.

To join, simply make your check payable to the Michigan Hemingway Society and mail it to:
P.O. Box 922
Petoskey, Michigan 49770 USA

Send it with your name, address, and e-mail address; and please let us know your particular area of interest or expertise.

For your convenience, we have an online form you may print out.

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