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Ernest Hemingway Look-alikes Compete At Key West Festival
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By Ben Hooper
July 23 (UPI) -
- Ernest Hemingway look- alikes are gather- ing in Florida to celebrate the life of the famed author and crown a champion impersonator.
The Key West Hemingway Days kicked off Thursday, with multiple bearded men wandering the streets in their apparel that most resembles the attire favored by The Old Man and the
Sea author.
The festival
is scheduled to last
through Sunday, with the top impersonator being crowned
Saturday at the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar, which was a favorite hangout of Hemingway's dur-
ing his time in Key West.
Organizers said this year's event marks the 40th Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike
Contest, after the event took a year off in 2020 due to the COVID-
19 pandemic.
The annual event raises money for various charities
and community service projects.
"That's why I have been involved. I like things like charity and scholarships and things like
that, but I have a good time too, trust me," David Douglas, a com- petitor who won the look-alike contest in
2009, told WFOR-TV.
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