News from the Hemingway Collection

• NEWS FROM THE HEMINGWAY COLLECTION JAMES M. ROTH The John F. Kennedy Library Hemingway Research Room Update Summer 2002 has been quite busy for the Hemingway Research Room. Not only have we had numerous researchers, but we have been host to several educational groups as well as teachers' in-service visits and workshops , and have had a full complement of tourists curious about Ernest Hemingway. In May, two Air Force cadets began a month-long internship at the Library. This annual internship divides the interns' time between helping the staff maintain the collection and allowing them time to research their own Hemingway-related projects. The staff was further supported with several additional summer-long internships. Interns and staff accomplished many tasks. Reference copies described in the 1998 Appendix have been fully integrated into the collection. During this integration, interns labeled and re-foldered all the materials and recopied missing or damaged documents. Interns photocopied correspondence from the William Walton Papers collection related to Ernest Hemingway and Mary Hemingway and placed both the Walton Papers and the Jane Mason Papers in the room for easier access. One intrepid intern took on the task of cataloging a collection of individual articles. Researchers can access this collection of printed and non-published articles, previously called the "vertical file," through a ProCite database available on site. Work continues on converting the Catalog into an electronic document viewable on the web. Most of the catalog has been scanned and once this is complete, researchers will be able to access the catalog and the appendices online through the John F. Kennedy web site. Appendix material will be integrated into the original catalog and will be marked with its opening date. 111 HiMiN(JWAY REVIEW, vol. 22. no. ?. ??? 2002. Copyright © 2002 Carol Hemingway. All Rights Reserved. Published by the University of Idaho Press, Moscow, Idaho. NEWS FROM T Il E HEMINGWAY COLLECTION · J 4 9 Hemingway Letters Project The John F. Kennedy library is proud to be a supporter of the Hemingway Letters Project at Penn State. Staff is currently working with Sandra Spanier, General Editor of the Project, to facilitate the process of editing all of Hemingway's correspondence, the bulk ofwhich is located at the library. Summer Programs: The Boston Writing Project This summer the Hemingway Research Room was host to three workshops for The Boston Writing Project's "Teaching Writing in the Schools" Graduate Certificate Program. Founded in 1979, the Boston Writing Project (BWP) is a program of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in the Graduate College of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. BWP conducts annual summer institutes and in-service programs, and offers a graduate certificate program in the teaching of writing for a wide variety of urban and suburban schools and teachers. Taught by Bruce Rettman, the program is designed for K-12 teachers and administrators in all subject areas who want to learn strategies to strengthen students' writing and thinking skills, develop expertise in teaching writing and literacy across the curriculum, gain a deeper understanding of literacy learning, and improve their own writing. The teachers spent a week reading, analyzing, and discussing several short stories, while stressing the need to recognize the importance of revision in writing. At the end of the program, Bruce Rettman reported that the participants in the workshops were all enthusiastic about their experiences. Commenting on the Hemingway Collection and Research Room, Bruce remarked, "surely the Hemingway Room is the premier research facility in the country both aesthetically and practically and its staff unparalleled." Thanks for the compliments and your continued support, Bruce. Hemingway Research Grants The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Ernest Hemingway Collection are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2002 Hemingway Research Grants. Recipients of the annually awarded grants were Mark Ott, Ph.D. dissertation, "The Gulf Stream and the Transformations in Hemingway 's Sea Fiction, 1932-1952," University of Hawaii-Manoa; Joseph Fruscione , Ph.D. dissertation, "Modernist Gestalt: The Relationship between William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, 1920-1962," The George Wash- 150 ¦ THE HEMIN Ci WAY REVIEW ington University; and Paul Dickson, independent writer, for The March of the Bonus Army: A Depression Odyssey That ChangedAmerica. The...