Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center

Hemingway in Venice Reading Retreat
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-07 | Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR, 72454, United States
On July 8, 1918, Ernest Hemingway was wounded near Venice, Italy, while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. During the late 1940s, he fell in love with the city he had defended in his youth – and with young Venetian Adriana Ivancich. In this retreat, we’ll use books, film, a new photo exhibit and a Venetian-themed mystery party to explore the city that enchanted Hemingway.
Here’s How It Works:

Click here to download the brochure for full information on texts, schedule and price.
Sign-up today and buy your books at any major retailer or from our store.
Read the three books at your convenience over the winter.
Join us in April for a weekend of discussion and fun based on the books.

Papa's Upland Bird Hunt
2024-01-27 | Liberty Hill Outfitters, 2 Co Rd 470, Rector, 72461, United States
Charity guided quail hunt with proceeds benefitting the museum. Tickets are $1500 for a party of four, with lunch included. For more information, visit the event page.

Hemingway's Cuba
2024-05-25 - 2024-06-01 | AR
Join us for a unique once-in-a-lifetime trip to Havana on the beautiful and historical island of Cuba! You will enjoy a week supporting the Cuban people as you experience their art, culture, cuisine, music, and of course, the classic American vintage cars!On this amazing trip, you will have a chance to walk in Ernest Hemingway‘s footsteps in Cuba, where he lived for 21 years (1939-1960). You will exchange ideas with the Cuban people as you visit Old Havana and spend the day at Hemingway‘s home and museum, Finca Vigia, where he wrote The Old Man and the Sea. At the Hotel Ambos Mundos, you will see where he began his work on For Whom the Bell Tolls.In addition, you will visit art projects, natural wonders, a working tobacco plantation, and lots of wonderful restaurants.
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Summer Writers Retreat
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-21 | Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR, 72454, United States
The retreat offers adults the opportunity to work on personal creative writing, share their work, receive feedback, and interact with others interested in writing. Writers have the opportunity to work in the Barn-Studio where Ernest Hemingway wrote during visits to Piggott. Not all writers come with something in mind to write, but many do. The retreat is structured to be interactive, a time when friendships are formed, craft is honed, and creativity is enhanced.
This year’s Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh will serve as mentor for the retreat. She is the author of Here Be Dragons, a memoir about the wonderful misery of raising children with someone you love. She also hosts Wild Precious Life, a literary podcast about making the most of the time we have.
Annmarie teaches writing at Ashland University where she also works with incarcerated students trying to obtain their degrees. Her essays have appeared on in numerous publications and staged with the Cleveland Humanities Festival and Listen to Your Mother, Pittsburgh. In her non-writing moments, Kelly-Harbaugh loves kickboxing, karaoke, dogs, ping-pong, books that make her laugh, movies that make her cry, and salads other people make her eat. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is currently querying a novel about all the truth in the lies we tell.
For more information on the retreat, click here.

Garden of Eden Reading Retreat
2024-08-09 - 2024-08-10 | Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR, 72454, United States
The Garden of Eden is one of Hemingway’s most perplexing novels. Published posthumously and set in the French Riviera, it examines the complicated relationship between David Bourne and his wife Catherine. We’ll explore the novel alongside two other Lost Generation novels that share important themes.
Here’s How It Works:

Click here to download the brochure for full information on texts, schedule and price.
Sign-up today and buy your books at any major retailer or from our store.
Read the three books at your convenience over the summer.
Join us in August for a weekend of discussion and fun based on the books.
