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(Walloon Lake, Mich) — Young Ernest Hemingway – merely an infant when he first visited Walloon Lake, Michigan – starting a 22-year tradition that shaped his life as an outdoorsman and storyteller.  “On September 5th, Tues, Ernest 6 ½ weeks old went to Walloon Lake with Mama, Papa and Nurse Norris on the steamship Manitou,” wrote his mother, Grace Hemingway, in his first baby book archived and ...read more