"This is the best birthday I have ever had.”

Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer from Madison, Wisc., regarding his winning the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest in Key West, Fla., on his 68th birthday. The city’s annual Hemingway Days celebration ended on Sunday, July 23, and the Look-Alike Contest was held at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, a frequent hangout of Ernest Hemingway when he lived in Key West during the 1930s. Marshall won the competition over nearly 140 other entrants; it was his 11th attempt at the contest. (NPR — July 24, 2023)