The festivities in northern Michigan include tours of the ... neighborhood of shading maple trees and modest homes. Local histories and Hemingway biographies tell us that the young man was always ...

She wrote songs like 'Lovely Walloona,' a paean to the family retreat on Walloon Lake in north Michigan. Hemingway inherited neither his mother's literary style, nor her musical talent.

All his life, Hemingway would use the words “writer” and “naturalist” interchangeably. He grew up in a period of rapid environmental change, and saw Michigan’s lake country, his first ...