(EFE).- The United States approved a fund of 25,000 dollars to restore the former home of the American writer Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, reported this Monday the Finca Vigía Foundation, the entity that works with the authorities in Havana to preserve the current house. museum.
The money will also be used for the creation of a restoration center as well as for the maintenance and rescue of “thousands of documents, manuscripts, letters and photos along with its bookstore with a volume of 9,000 copies,” the organization adds in a statement.
For the charge d’affaires of the US embassy on the island, Benjamin Ziff, the fund approved by the US government highlights the historical and cultural value that the house represents for both Washington and Havana.
“Supporting Finca Vigía represents our commitment to preserving the incalculable history and shared cultural heritage that links the United States and Cuba,” Ziff highlighted in the note.
“Supporting Finca Vigía represents our commitment to preserving the incalculable history and shared cultural heritage that links the United States and Cuba”
For his part, Frank Phillips, co-president of the Finca Vigía Foundation, stressed that this fund is the first “financial support from the US Government” and that, therefore, it is “incredibly significant.”
“Our hope is that the embassy’s support can inspire others to contribute,” Phillips added.
The Finca Vigía mansion, located about 15 kilometers from Havana, was the residence of the American writer for more than 20 years and became the Ernest Hemingway Museum after his death on July 2, 1961, when he shot himself by suicide. with a hunting shotgun in Idaho (USA).
Ernest Hemingway spent long periods between 1939 and until shortly before his death at Finca Vigía, where he even wrote part of some of his most famous novels, including The Old Man and the Sea, a very important work for him to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Literature in 1954.
The museum preserves a collection of more than 20,000 personal objects and documents that belonged to the novelist, including books, hunting trophies, records, weapons, stationery, photos, a typewriter, where he used to write standing up, and the yacht El Pilar, with which he went fishing and sailing in the Caribbean Sea.
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