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Perseverance, a lucky sweater, and an uncanny resemblance to one of world's most iconic authors. That was the winning formula that helped a 69-year-old man from Key West, Florida, win the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest title this weekend in the Southernmost City in the U.S.

Eighteen white-bearded men who resemble the late U.S. author Ernest Hemingway have arrived in Havana for the weekend to visit some of the his favorite places when he lived on the island decades ago.

Hemingway Days started in 1981 with a short-story competition and a look-alike contest. This year鈥檚 celebration concluded Sunday on the 125th anniversary of Hemingway鈥檚 birth on July 21, 1899.

Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer from Madison, prevailed Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar, a frequent hangout of Ernest Hemingway when he lived in Key West during the 1930s.

Almost 140 bearded men who resemble Ernest Hemingway have converged on Key West to compete in the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. The challenge began Thursday evening.

Joe Auvil, a Dade City resident, beat out 124 entrants. Auvil, who already shares Hemingway's passion for fishing, is dressing for the job he wants: "Every man wants to write like Hemingway," he said.

After being canceled last year because of the pandemic, the annual Hemingway Look-Alike contest is set to return to Key West, the island where the writer lived in the 1930s.

A white-bearded retired banker beat out 141 contestants in the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest in Key West at the annual Hemingway Days festival.Joe鈥�

Shortly after his mother died in 1987, Brian Gordon Sinclair stumbled upon a copy of 鈥淎 Farewell To Arms,鈥� Ernest Hemingway's famous novel set during鈥�

Ernest Hemingway lived at Finca Vig铆a for two decades before leaving the country in the early 1960s. Today, the house remains as the American author left it.

Earning a spot on the author's list of most beloved drinks was no small feat. But bartender Constantino Ribalaigua, of Havana's now 200-year-old El Floridita, created a still-legendary cocktail.

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