[applause] >> for more information if this is the website,paul deannestillman.com. >> "hemingway's boat." wh mr. hendrickson, what was the pillar? >> it was a 38-foot seagoingt fishing cruiser that hemingway bought in 1934, and own for thes last 27 years of his life but ie was probably, peter, the most below much or possession that he ever owned. thout so i thought maybe i could tell that hemingway story in a new a way figure story telling devis. >> could you do it? >> well, i went to cuba in 2005, to havana, and when the guards were not looking, i certain tishesly touched the boat, a moving experience. the boat was dry dock, on a hillside at hemingway's home, and it was in terrible condition. it looked as if it were dying of thirst and only wanted to get into water, but that further convinced me i had a story to tell through the prism of this boat because when hemingway got the boat, he was the reigning monarch of american literature. he was at the very apex, and when he lost the boat, when he lost everything, when he killed himself by shotgun 27 years later, this boat lasted him throu