A Wisconsin man took home first prize in Key West’s annual Ernest Hemingway lookalike contest — 11 years after he first entered the event.
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Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer from Madison, was crowned “Papa” himself after strutting his white beard and portly stomach across the stage of Sloppy Joe’s Bar, where Hemingway used to hang when he lived on the Florida key throughout the 1930s. Gerrit Marshall triumphantly holds aloft his trophy alongside fellow competitors in the 2023 Hemingway lookalike contestNearly 140 lookalikes entered the competition this year. Previous winners from the Hemingway Look-Alike Society judge the contestantsAs if their likeness wasn’t enough, Marshall’s birthday is just one day shy of Hemingway’s. He’s also tried his hand at writing short fiction and nonfiction.
The real Ernest Hemingway, left, and his triumphant 2023 lookalike winner. The two have common interests, this year’s winner said
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