OGUNQUIT —The Ogunquit Heritage Museum, has announced its procurement of copies of Ernest Hemingway’s letters to Henry “Mike” Strater from the Firestone Library at Princeton University. Strater had gifted 149 pages of documents to the School after Hemingway’s death in 1961.

Strater and Hemingway became friends while they were both living in Paris in the 1920s becoming members of the Lost Generation and bonding over boxing and a love for deep-sea fishing. It was the latter that also ended their friendship on a fateful fishing trip off Bimini in 1935 and aspects of this trip are what The Old Man and The Sea is based on.

All of this, including exhibits and procurement of Hemingway’s letters and so much more, is made possible by the fundraising of The Friends of Ogunquit Heritage Museum.

Please join them at their annual Dinner and A Chance at Jonathan’s from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15. A silent auction will be held featuring art from Michael Palmer, Gayle Fitzpatrick, Russ Whitten, Jeffery Fitzgerald, Don Gorvett and Julia Einstein to name a few. Also to be auctioned is some jewelry from Kiki’s in Perkins Cove and Swamp John’s, art in and of itself.

RSVP with payment deadline has been extended to Sept. 11. Tickets are on sale at the museum. The museum is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m.

For more information call 646-0296.