NBC News: Ernest Hemingway's Cuban home

The Daily Nightly - MSNBC.com: Reporter Mark Potter had a fascinating story about the "politically-complicated efforts to restore the Cuban home of famed American writer Ernest Hemingway. Reporting this story gave us rare access to the fascinating place known as Finca Vigia, or Lookout Farm, which sits on a hill overlooking Havana. Hemingway lived and worked there for 21 years, from 1939 to 1960, and it's where he finished 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' and fully wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea,' for which he won both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize for Literature.

All of us in the NBC team were struck by how the house seems frozen in time, and feels as if Papa, himself, could stroll through the door at any moment. The walls are filled with his hunting trophies from around the world, including the head of an African Cape Buffalo. On the bathroom walls are the handwritten notes he would write every day recording his weight. The last entry was from July 24, 1960. He weighed 190 pounds then."

I toured Hemingway's home on Key West a couple of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed that.