One More Visit With “Old Man” Gregorio Fuentes

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.06.02 | 2:08 AM ET

Steve Kettmann made the pilgrimage to Havana to visit Gregorio Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway’s inspiration for “The Old Man and the Sea,” three years ago. “It’s a mixed bag,” Kettmann writes in the San Francisco Chronicle, “this business of stalking a long-departed writer’s former associates and former haunts for glimpses of something real, something that helps you understand the inspiration behind the books.”