safaris

Patrick Hemingway in Africa: A Report from the 1960s

Just to illustrate how random this blog will be as it accumulates over time, I’m offering this article about Hemingway’s first son. Patrick was born on June 28, 1928 at Research Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and as of this writing (September 30, 2022) remains with us, living in Bozeman, Montana, with his second wife, Carol. This Associated Press dispatch from Tanzania appeared in the Kansas City Times, the Star’s morning edition, on March 19, 1969. From the available evidence I must have found it while finishing my Hemingway at Eighteen draft in 2016. I knew of Patrick’s safari business in the early 1950s, but was unaware how many years he spent in Tanzania and that he taught at a school for wildlife management.