(REMOTE ZOOM PROGRAM)

Thursday, April 4, 2024 (7:00 PM - 8:30 PM) 

With a new baseball season upon us, it is only fitting that we have Dr. Sharon Hamilton return for an updated discussion on Hemingway and Chicago Baseball. When Ernest Hemingway was growing up in Oak Park during the early years of the twentieth century, it was a particularly exciting time to be a Chicago baseball fan. During the years of Hemingway's youth the Chicago Cubs, White Sox, and Federal League Whales were all championship teams. This talk explores such questions as: Which Chicago baseball teams did Hemingway watch and cheer for? What was his personal experience of the Black Sox scandal? What can be determined about Chicago baseball photos Hemingway himself took? What Chicago baseball players did Hemingway particularly admire? And was he the first author to use the baseball idiom “off base,” meaning a mistake, in a novel? Join us for wonderful discussion on America’s pastime and Hemingway.

**the field image has a caption which says: “In the yard at Windemere Cottage -Walloon Lake, Mich.- our own baseball team, 1912. L-R: Cheslie Sweeney, Ernest Hemingway, Mildred Sweeney, Marcelline Hemingway, Grace Stockwell. (Cheslie and Ernest slept in the tent)” * part of the Hemingway Archives

**Ticket Stub, Hemingway went to the Yankees vs White Sox baseball game at the Polo Grounds on May 22, 2018, the day before he shipped out to Europe for WWI. He saved and carried this ticket stub with him. * part of the Hemingway Archives

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

As part of our Hemingway in the 21st Century series, we discuss one of the latest books added to the Hemingway anthology, Mythbusting Hemingway: Debunking Hemingway Myths and Celebrating the Extraordinary Stories of His Life. Co-authored by Thomas Bevilacqua and Robert K. Elder, we will be joined by Oak Park's own Elder to discuss the many myths of Hemingway. This discussion will be led by Carla Whitacre Mayer, who heads up the Outreach and Education initiatives for the foundation.

In this book, Hemingway legends--both true and debunked--are informed by detective work the authors did for the Paris Review, Chicago Tribune, and Huffington Post. For this volume, the authors conducted fresh interviews and scholarship that shed new light on the man, his work, and legacy.

The event is FREE, but please register here.

We will be recording this event and uploading to Youtube, we will provide a link when it is available.

Robert K. Elder is the award-winning author or editor of 20+ books, including four about Ernest Hemingway. He is also the President and CEO of Outrider Foundation, which supports journalism and media about climate change and nuclear threats. A Montana native, Elder lives in Chicagoland with his family. For more information, visit robertkelder.com.

Ken Trainor sits down with best-selling author, William Hazelgrove to discuss Ken’s new book, “Our Town Oak Park – Walk with Me, in Search of True Community,” based on columns published in Wednesday Journal over the past three decades, which chronicle life in our dynamic, ever-evolving community where the unique meets the universal. The unifying thread is true community, finding it in the extraordinary ordinary, in the day-to-day, the face-to-face, the moments of beauty or, as Thornton Wilder said of his play, “Our Town,” finding “a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.” So join us as we embrace community.

** Please note date change

Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Registration is requested as event capacity is limited.

Ken Trainor has been with Growing Community Media for 30 years, wearing almost every hat available, including Forest Park Review editor, Austin Weekly News editor, Wednesday Journal managing editor and, currently, copy editor, Viewpoints editor, and obituaries editor. He has written upward of 2,000 columns and still hasn’t run out of things to say.

William Hazelgrove is the National Bestselling author of ten novels and twelve nonfiction titles. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly Kirkus, Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards Junior Library Guild Selections, Literary Guild Selections, History Book Club Selections, History Book Club Bestsellers, Distinguished Book Award. and optioned for the movies. He was the first Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. https://www.williamhazelgrove.com/

Haunted Hemingway: Ghost Stories SOLD OUT

7:00 -9:00 pm

F@H's features a haunted Hemingway Birthplace so join us for an evening of literary ghost stories read by Chicago area writers. Featured authors included:

Deborah Shapiro is the author of the novels Consolation, The Summer Demands, and The Sun in Your Eyes (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight Unseen, Chicago Magazine, Literary Hub, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Chicago. http://www.deborah-shapiro.com/

Jennifer Solheim’s short fiction has earned recognition in contests held by Glimmer Train and Craft, and her fiction and essays have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Confrontation, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Pinch,and Poets & Writers. One of her stories in BLR was performed at their Page to Stage series at the NYU Langone School. She was longlisted for the Granum Fellowship Prize. She serves as Associate Director of the BookEnds novel revision fellowship at Stony Brook University, co-directed by Susan Merrell and Meg Wolitzer. https://jennifersolheim.com/

Julia Fine is the author of The Upstairs House, winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction; What Should Be Wild, which was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Superior First Novel Award. Her third novel Maddalena and the Dark was published by Flatiron in June 2023. She teaches writing in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and children. https://www.julia-fine.com/

Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, is forthcoming from Tor Books. She is also the author of four chapbooks: Vigil, Tropicália, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize, Amblyopia, and Translation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, The Common, Witness, and elsewhere. She was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, for her fiction, and an early version of CRAFT was named a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark. Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in Chicago. https://www.anandalima.com/

Please join us for our fall fundraiser event on Saturday, September 30th, from 6:00 – 9:00 pm highlighting our Hemingway Archives held in the Special Collections of the Oak Park Public Library. The crown jewel within this archive collection is the famed “Dear John” letter Ernest Hemingway received from his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, upon his return to Oak Park after serving in the American Red Cross during World War I.  The evening’s festivities will focus on the seminal part this letter played both in Hemingway’s life and in literary history.

6:00 – 6:45 pm     Cocktail Reception with hors d'oeuvres

6:45 – 8:00 pm     Dear John Letter and Archival Presentation

8:00 – 9:00 pm     Archival Viewing and Cocktails
 
The evening will feature delicious catered hors d’oeuvres, cocktails by Papa’s Pilar, wine, beer, a separate raffle for professionally framed themed artwork of the Hemingway Birthplace ($400 value) or a Papa Pilar Themed Cooler Gift Basket ($550 value). Raffle tickets can be purchased in advance or on-site. We will also have on-site a fabulous Hemingway bookshelf (purchase a book for $20 and get a reward, $35-$100 value).

Tickets are $60.00 per person (includes hors d’oeuvres, two complimentary beverages of your choice).

Raffle Tickets are $20.00 each

DRESS ATTIRE: Smart Casual (No shorts, no jeans, etc)

Reserve your spot for what will be an enjoyable, insightful evening at:

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

Trapper Schoepp (Porch Concert)

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Tonight, on Hemingway’s birthday no less, as part of our F@H series we present a porch concert featuring Trapper Schoepp an American singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His latest album, Siren Songs, is a folk rock odyssey recorded at Johnny Cash's Cabin in May 2022. Produced by John Jackson (Jayhawks) and Patrick Sansone (Wilco). In 2019, the Milwaukee singer-songwriter published a long lost song with Bob Dylan called “On, Wisconsin” – making him the youngest musician to share a co-writing credit with the Nobel Prize laureate. The song led to a #1 trending article in Rolling Stone and over a hundred tour dates worldwide.

You can learn more about Trapper at: http://trapperschoepp.com

(Weather-permitting this will be an outdoor event)

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

3:00 - 4:30 PM (HYBRID PROGRAM)

When Ernest Hemingway was growing up in Oak Park during the early years of the twentieth century, it was a particularly exciting time to be a Chicago baseball fan. During the years of Hemingway's youth the Chicago Cubs, White Sox, and Federal League Whales were all championship teams. This talk explores such questions as: Which Chicago baseball teams did Hemingway watch and cheer for? What was his personal experience of the Black Sox scandal? What can be determined about Chicago baseball photos Hemingway himself took? What Chicago baseball players did Hemingway particularly admire? And was he the first author to use the baseball idiom “off base,” meaning a mistake, in a novel? Join us for wonderful discussion on America’s pastime and Hemingway.

**the field image has a caption which says: “In the yard at Windemere Cottage -Walloon Lake, Mich.- our own baseball team, 1912. L-R: Cheslie Sweeney, Ernest Hemingway, Mildred Sweeney, Marcelline Hemingway, Grace Stockwell. (Cheslie and Ernest slept in the tent)” * part of the Hemingway Archives

**Ticket Stub, Hemingway went to the Yankees vs White Sox baseball game at the Polo Grounds on May 22, 2018, the day before he shipped out to Europe for WWI. He saved and carried this ticket stub with him. * part of the Hemingway Archives

World War I radically changed Ernest Hemingway as a writer.  He served as an ambulance driver and was badly wounded only a few weeks after his deployment. He spent 7 months recovering in a hospital in Milan. His brief service shook 18-year-old Hemingway and helped launch him as one of the key forces in modernism.  Hemingway docent and retired teacher, Rick Kabialis discusses Hemingway's experiences during a crucial developmental period as part of our Hemingway in the 21st Century series.

This is a free event but registration is required to reserve your spot as space is limited.

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

In Ernie’s Footsteps: A Walking Tour of Young Hemingway’s Oak Park

A 90-minute outdoor tour explores young Hemingway’s connections to Oak Park. Sites to be visited include the Birthplace Museum, Boyhood home, Oak Park & River Forest High School, Oak Park Public Library, Congregational Church and WW I War Memorial in Scoville Park. Your guide is Dr. Nancy Sindelar, author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Includes guided walking tour and 1 copy of book, Influencing Hemingway (15 person max)

Advanced Reservations required

7:00 -9:00 pm

The Nick Adams Stories: A World Premiere of a New Piece Based on Hemingway's Famed Stories

The Nick Adams Stories are a collection of short, semi-autobiographical works written by Hemingway throughout his life. Many of the stories detail Hemingway's youth in Michigan, which drew  percussionist Josh Graham and composer Griffen Candey towards a collaboration. Both native Michiganders, Graham will be performing the world premiere of a new work for solo marimba written by Mr. Candey. The performance will include readings from the works interspersed with the musical works they have inspired, as well as a discussion and Q and A session with the composer and performer.

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers (Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books) introduces, in Frida, an everywoman for the ages. Using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic. Chan will be joined in conversation by fellow writer, Deborah Shapiro, writer, her third novel, Consolation, was published in October 2022.

Jessamine Chan’s stories have appeared in Tin House and Epoch. A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in Chicago with her family. The School for Good Mothers is her first novel. i: @jessamine.chan | t: @jessaminechan | w: jessaminechan.com

Deborah Shapiro is the author of the novels Consolation, The Summer Demands, and The Sun in Your Eyes (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight Unseen, Chicago Magazine, Literary Hub, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Chicago. http://www.deborah-shapiro.com/

This author event is co-sponsored with the Oak Park Public Library

Books will be available for sale through the Book Table

This is a free event but we do kindly ask you to register via the button below

Ethan Philion Trio: Jazz

7:00 -9:00 pm

F@H's welcomes the return of bassist Ethan Philion who will present an evening of music alongside a newly-formed trio featuring violinist Mark Feldman and guitarist Mike Allemana. Their concert will feature new compositions by Philion as well as arrangements of pieces by Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Duke Ellington, and more. 

Learn more about them: https://ethanphilion.com/home

Ernest Hemingway grew up hearing stories of the Civil War service of his grandfathers Ernest Hall and Anson Hemingway. Though very different men in background and personality, their paths had unusual matching twists and turns.  They experienced the hardship and injury that Hemingway would later witness and endure on multiple battlefields. We'll examine how the grandfathers' stories echo in the life and work of Hemingway. 

Harriette Gillem Robinet, the acclaimed author of 12 historical novels for young adults, will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's Fuller Award at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 14. The ceremony will take place at Dominican University's Performing Arts Center, starting at six p.m.; a reception with appetizers and drinks will follow. Speakers include Linda Robinet, Nora Brooks Blakely, Athena Williams, Frank Lipo, Glennette Tilley Turner, and Tsehaye Geralyn Hébert.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Robinet will be the 14th recipient of CLHOF's highest honor for living writers. Robinet's Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses started a career that has over the past three decades earned her recognition from such prestigious organizations as the Friends of American Writers and Midland Authors. She's won a Carl Sandburg Award and a Scott O'Dell Award, and been a finalist for an Edgar Award, a Willam Allen White Award, a Texas Bluebonnet Award, and a Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award. Walking to the Bus Rider Blues was recognized as Jane Addams Award Honor book in 2001.

The Hemingway Foundation is a co-sponsor of this event