Wondering about Hemingway

We took a break from camping and went into Mineral Point for lunch. It’s a former mining town that has become a community with art and nice restaurants in southwest Wisconsin. We poked around a mostly deserted downtown (it was Sunday in the off season), peering in the windows, guessing at the ages of buildings, and stepping around the construction (they were repaving several streets). I came across one of those “miniature libraries” — a little like a bird house with a glass front door — filled with free books. I rifled through them and on an impulse — I wasn’t really going to do much reading camping and hiking…