IN PERSON: Join longtime Ernest Hemingway specialist Ashley Oliphant for a fresh look at the author's iconic career. We will discuss his role as a big-game fisherman, his contributions to the formation of the International Game Fish Association and his crafting of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Old Man and the Sea," which helped him win the Nobel Prize for literature. The course will go back in time to examine the people, places and events that helped shape Hemingway's evolution as a big-game fisherman and his ultimate ascent to the pinnacle of the sport he helped to establish. Students will consider his surprising position as one of the first fishing conservationists and one of the earliest sportsmen to recognize female anglers as equal competitors and essential to a healthy sport. Class discussion will include group analysis and debate of "The Old Man and the Sea" as it reflects in literary terms the challenges and demands of the sport before technology changed the angler's landscape. | Facilitated discussion.
Max enrollment: 15.
Location: Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Rd, Durham NC 27705
