BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER (PT 2) by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In Part 2 we offer some history on the town of Seney, Michigan, when it served as home for three thousand loggers, becoming a North Central version of a wild west town, in the days before Hemingway stopped there on his fishing trip. In part two Nick Adams manages to pull in some nice trout and loses one big one, the whole process described extremely well by young Hemingway who was on his way to a career in writing.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone. The one thousand one classic short stories stories entails. This is your host John |
| 0:34.2 | Hagenorn. Today part two of Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway. I found an |
| 0:41.0 | article written in December of 1990 for Michigan history written by Jack Jobst called |
| 0:46.0 | Hemingway Insaini. |
| 0:48.0 | I'll provide you with a few lines from it. |
| 0:49.7 | I think you'll find it very helpful in understanding the story. Here's how it starts. The |
| 0:55.1 | hot August sun hovered directly overhead his 20-year-old Ernest Miller |
| 0:58.7 | Hemingway stepped carefully down from the train at Sainey, Michigan. |
| 1:02.8 | It was 1919. |
| 1:05.2 | He walked slowly, favoring his right leg |
| 1:07.6 | towards a small wooden depot in the south side of the tracks. |
| 1:11.0 | While his leg hurt each time he put weight on it, he was proud of his wounds and he could handle it. |
| 1:16.0 | After all, he was one of the first Americans wounded in Italy during the Great War, |
| 1:20.0 | and he enjoyed talking about the Austrian mortar shell that had put him in a Milan, Italy |
| 1:24.7 | hospital for several months. Still, the pride would come more easily if he was wearing his |
| 1:29.4 | fancy Italian officer's uniform. He cringed as he recalled the brakeman's cruel remark, |
| 1:34.9 | Hold her up, the man yelled to the engineer. |
| 1:37.4 | There's a cripple and he needs time to get his stuff down. |
| 1:42.2 | The trip from the Hemingway Summer Home on Walloon Lake had been long but enjoyable. |
| 1:46.6 | From the moment they stepped aboard the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, which was called |
| 1:50.6 | the GRNI, in Potaski early that day, Hemingway and his two friends who aren't mentioned in the story. |
| 1:57.6 | Jack Penicost, his high school classmate from Illinois and Al Walker had looked forward to visiting Saini. |
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