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stairs outside and discussed books."
Gordon continues. "When I went
back to Grand Island to continue my
teaching [she had received a teaching
degree in physical education from a
college in Illinois], Hemingway met
me in Chicago. And he took me up to
his room and he told me that he had
written to a Kansas City paper and
they accepted his column and he was
s00000 thrilled, he had to take me up to
show me." A smile streams across her
face as she recalls the triumphant day.
"The following summer, we played
tennis every morning when it was
nice." She admits that one of the rea-
sons he liked being with her was
because she was a
Over a leisurely and
good tennis play-
hearty lunch of sal-
er. And did she
ads, fruit and rolls,
ever beat him?
in the kitchen and
"Maybe a game
living room of the
now and then,
Petoskey home she
she says. "Then he
purchased in 1928,
was gone.
Irene Gordon reflects
Gordon's
on the carefree days
younger daughter,
during her teens and
Gloria Levine, in
early 20s, when she
Petoskey for the
hung out with her
summer (she and
friend Ernest
her husband win-
Hemingway, and on
ter in Florida) also
the subsequent years
listens to Gordon
when she periodically
on this
saw him and corre-
Wednesday after-
sponded with him.
noon, helping to
She savors a cook-
add bits of bio-
ie while her mind
graphical informa-
rolls back the calen-
tion on her moth-
dar to the November
er
and their fami-
"OK, I'll have a little fruit, but I'd
day she met the
ly.
(Gordon's other
also like another cookie. That's three
handsome young
child,
Henriette,
cookies," smiles the mischievous Irene
man, who in 1919
lives
in
Chicago.)
Gordon, during a recent lunch at
rented a large front
Says
Levine,
which she recalls her many fascinat-
bedroom on the sec-
ing
experiences. The centenarian also "Everyone is fasci-
ond floor of a gabled
nated with her
enjoys
a daily cocktail.
frame house on State
Hemingway con-
Street in her home-
nection, but we're
town of Petoskey.
fascinated with her as a person and the
"I was teaching school in Grand
responsibilities she took on and the way
Island, Neb., and I came home to
she's handled her whole life." Gordon
Petoskey for vacation," recalls Gordon,
chose to remain single following her
her eyes fixed on her past, a colorful
divorce from a Chicago-based traveling
lifetime quilt made of hundreds of
salesman so that she could do what she
pieces that each reflect a fascinating tale.
wanted to do, when she wanted to do it.
"There was a party in Bay View [a
With pride, Levine adds that her
nearby Methodist cultural colony] and I
mother is crazy about books and
was to go. Someone said to me, 'Ernest
always has been. "She's even written
Hemingway will be there' and 'do you
poetry, reams of it. I've read it ... sim-
want to meet him?' [He had just
plistic but nice," she says, clearing
returned from joining the Red Cross in
away the dishes while her husband,
Italy, where he had been badly wound-
Eugene, mixes up some instant coffee.
ed. He'd received a "Dear John" letter
He likes to tell a few Gordon tales
from the woman with whom he'd fallen
as well, including the one about her
in love. He would later write about
having to fix the "dimples in her car
those experiences in A Farewell to Arms.]
that were really dents," or how she
So I met him and he and I sat on the
"stops traffic when she walks to Bay

Eugene Levine live during the sum-
mers — will be honored at a special
birthday dinner in Petoskey.
The celebration salutes the centen-
nial of Hemingway's birth and
Gordon's own 100th birthday. The
birthday gala is part of a weeklong
Petoskey-area salute to the author, run-
ning July 18-25, that features tours of
his family's summer cottage on nearby
Walloon Lake, museum exhibits, walk-
ing tours, a writers panel and more.
Had Hemingway been alive today, he
surely would be celebrating his 100-year
mark with the lovely Irene Gordon.

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