Play it Again Sam
I am writing this blog from Key Largo while attending the Humphrey Bogart Film Festival. I try to attend at least two film festivals a year and this is my third time in Key Largo. The place is still recovering from the Hurricane there is rubble and remains at places along Ocean Highway but most seems to be back to normal. On my way down here, I have been listening to the audio book Writer,Sailor, Soldier, Spy which brings to light for the first time this riveting secret side of Hemingway's life - when he worked closely with both the American OSS, a precursor to the CIA, and the Soviet NKVD, the USSR's forerunner to the KGB, to defeat Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The book starts with the story of Hemingway looking for the survivors of the great Hurricane of 1935 it had 200-mile-an-hour winds and had conspired with politics, the Depression, and petty bureaucracy to turn disaster into tragedy. As part of the New Deal there were three veteran work camps on the key...