Today is Mary Welsh Hemingway Day in Bemidji; play being written in her honor
BEMIDJI -- "Those skating years were also the years when I celebrated my birthday on April 5 by making the first swim of the season in Lake Bemidji. Usually the winter's ice had retreated only a yard or two from the beach at Diamond Point, but th...
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Bethany Wesley |
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Ernest and Mary Hemingway on safari in Africa, 1953-1954.
BEMIDJI - “Those skating years were also the years when I celebrated my birthday on April 5 by making the first swim of the season in Lake Bemidji. Usually the winter’s ice had retreated only a yard or two from the beach at Diamond Point, but there was enough open water for swimming fifteen or twenty strokes and whoever accompanied me came out of the water pink and giggling.”