The Petoskey area of Northern Michigan has many echoes of Ernest Hemingway, who spent a lot of time here during his formative years.
Walloon Lake, the site of the Hemingway family cottage, is where the famed author spent a lot of time during his early years. (Katherine Rodeghier/Chicago Tribune )
A young Ernest Hemingway was a regular at the Horton Bay General Store. Built in 1876, it still caters to summer visitors in Northern Michigan. (Katherine Rodeghier/Chicago Tribune )
A photo of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, hangs in the Horton Bay General Store near Petoskey, Mich. The bench on which they sat now stands in the front porch of the store. The Hemingways were married in a church next door in 1921. (Katherine Rodeghier/Chicago Tribune )
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Ernest Hemingway usually sat on the second bar stool from the end at what is now City Park Grill in Petoskey, Mich. (Katherine Rodeghier/Chicago Tribune )
The City Park Grill was one of Hemingway’s favorite bars in Petoskey, Mich. At the time, it was a saloon and billiards hall called The Annex. (Katherine Rodeghier/Chicago Tribune )
In 1919, Hemingway lived in a boarding house in Petoskey, Mich., laboring over his writing in the second-floor room on the right. (Katherine Rodeghier/Chicago Tribune )