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	Adios Gregorio Fuentes
		Ernest Hemingway’s words describing the character Santiago, immortalized in his 1952 classic, “The Old Man and the Sea,” are as timeless as a key inspiration to the character, Gregorio Fuentes, who died last week at age 104 in the Cuban fishing village of Cojímar, the salty backdrop for the story just east of Havana.
		Fuentes, born in 1897 on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, immigrated to Cuba at age six and was raised among fishermen in Cojímar, where he spent his entire life.
		While local legend claims that Fuentes is in fact Santiago of “The Old Man and the Sea,” the core inspiration came when Hemingway and Gregorio stumbled across an old timer struggling with a monster marlin in the Florida Straits.
	www.geocities.com /homecorbett/FuentesObit.html (641 words)

	Gregorio Fuentes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gregorio Fuentes is the probable model for Hemingway's eponymous "Old Man" in his The Old Man and the Sea.
		Gregorio Fuentes (July 11, 1897 – January 13, 2002) was a Cuban nautical captain.
		Fuentes was captain of the Pilar, which he sailed through Cuba with his friend Ernest Hemingway whom he met in 1928.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregorio_Fuentes (132 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Aglipay, Gregorio Aglipay, Gregoriogrāgō´rēō äglēpī´, 1860-1940, Philippine clergyman.
		Fuentes, Carlos Fuentes, Carloskär´lōs fwān´tās, 1928-, Mexican writer, editor, and diplomat.
		Gregorio Marañón, Gregoriogrāgō´rēō märänyōn´, 1887-1960, Spanish essayist, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Gregorio+Fuentes (481 words)

	TheStar.com - Gregorio Fuentes, Hemingway's boat captain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Fuentes had lived in Cojimar, a coastal city about 15 kilometres east of Havana since arriving in Cuba as an orphan at age six.
		Fuentes later inherited El Pilar and donated it to the Cuban government, which displays it outside Hemingway's former home, now a museum on the outskirts of Havana.
		Fuentes is survived by four daughters, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1011006376881 (289 words)

	G. Fuentes, 104; Hemingway's Skipper
		Gregorio Fuentes, who skippered Ernest Hemingway's fabled fishing boat, the Pilar, for more than 20 years and is said to have been the writer's inspiration for the embattled fisherman in "The Old Man and the Sea," has died.
		Fuentes was the character of Antonio in Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream," and he claimed to be the namesake for Hemingway's youngest son, Gregory.
		Fuentes was taken in by a succession of Canary Island immigrants until he became an adolescent and began earning money cleaning fish and going out to sea with the fishermen.
	www.data-yard.net /10i/fuentes.htm (759 words)

	G. Fuentes, 104; Hemingway's Skipper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gregorio Fuentes, who skippered Ernest Hemingway's fabled fishing boat, the Pilar, for more than 20 years and is said to have been the writer's inspiration for the embattled fisherman in "The Old Man and the Sea," has died.
		Fuentes was the character of Antonio in Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream," and he claimed to be the namesake for Hemingway's youngest son, Gregory.
		Fuentes was taken in by a succession of Canary Island immigrants until he became an adolescent and began earning money cleaning fish and going out to sea with the fishermen.
	62.149.229.227 /forcesarc/10i/fuentes.htm (759 words)

	FORCES - JAMES LEAVEY'S CORNER - Hemingway and the old man by the sea
		Nearby in a small house lives 'Capitan' Don Gregorio Fuentes, who was born in the Canary Islands on Sunday 11 July 1897 and grew up in the presence of the sea.
		Fuentes claimed his right as the boat's skipper to ask for a shot of rum at the club bar when he was rudely pushed away by a drunken American millionaire.
		With Gregorio Fuentes attending her, Pilar rode out the vicious hurricane of the fall of 1944 which put half the Cuban navy and merchant and private shipping into the streets of Havana or at the bottom of the harbour.
	www.forces.org /writers/james/files/hemi.htm (3186 words)

	Center for International Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Fuentes was a born seaman who rode out four hurricanes, swam through shark-infested waters to rescue a drowning man and could feel in his bones precisely where the biggest marlin, sailfish and tarpon would be running, or so Hemingway asserted.
		Fuentes was born in the Canary Islands sometime between 1897 and 1899.
		Fuentes took on a new job, ferrying Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, to an abandoned cay where they could bathe and Hemingway could work uninterrupted.
	www.ciponline.org /cuba/cubainthenews/newsarticles/nyt012902kinzer.htm (1902 words)

	San Francisco Public Library - Project Read Newsletter, Jan 2002 - Writings by Learners, p. 2
		Gregorio Fuentes was born in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
		Gregorio worked as a captain and after he had saved enough money, he went back to Lanzarote in search of the rest of his family.
		As Gregorio said, “Dolores was a beautiful young lady and I was a young boy; I couldn’t help it and fell in love with her.
	sfpl.lib.ca.us:8000 /librarylocations/accessservices/pr/newsletters/jan2002/writings2.html (996 words)

	The real old man and the sea / The National Post - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		Gregorio Fuentes, the man whom Hemingway admitted was his model for Santiago, as well as Antonio from Islands in the Stream, is still living in Cojimar, the tiny village just outside Havana where the novelist docked his boat, the Pilar, from the 1930s until his death.
		We ask to see Senor Fuentes, and she says softly, "He is now sleeping, but if you come back in an hour he will see you." And she apologizes for the inconvenience.
		And Capitan Fuentes' memory appears keen as he talks about his old fishing companions, Hemingway in particular."His absence is still painful to me," he says and looks down at the floor.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y99/jul99/19e15.htm (1518 words)

	ESCRITORES Y EL MAR
		Gregorio Fuentes and Ernest Hemingway would sit in the bar La Terraza to observe the sea and drink mojitos.
		Gregorio Fuentes is today 104 years old and he is part of the national asset as the Dike of La Havana the place where lovers kiss and where there are lots of Cadillac of the 50’s.
		The legend says that Gregorio Fuentes is the alter ego of the old Santiago, from the novel "The Old Man and The Sea", he himself has delivered version-myths: once they were navigating through Pinar del Río and they saw an old boat with an elder and a boy.
	www.ecoceanos.cl /escritores/hemingway.htm (905 words)

	Our old friend, Gregorio Fuentes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gregorio Fuentes, who turned 102 this month, was not only the novelist's confidant and faithful companion for more than 20 years.
		I know that is why he wrote the book." Fuentes was also with Hemingway aboard the Pilar in 1953 when the writer heard over the radio that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for the book.
		Fuentes is considered a national treasure in Cuba today (fans have filled more than half a dozen guest books in his home), but he doesn't dwell on the controversies that swirl around the icon like the Gulf Stream around his beloved Pilar.
	www.cybercuba.com /oldman.html (566 words)

	People: Jeremy Hildreth on Gregorio Fuentes on NRO Weekend
		Old Gregorio was a piece of living literary history, and a human tourist attraction of a singular sort.
		Gregorio's house in Cojímar is only a few blocks from the waterfront — and the famous La Terraza bar (immortalized as The Terrace in The Old Man and the Sea), where Hemingway and his friends would repair after a long day in the Gulf Stream.
		After thanking Gregorio and Rafael for their hospitality, I left behind a handful of ballpoint pens, which, like many basic consumer goods, are hard to come by in Cuba.
	www.nationalreview.com /weekend/people/people-hildreth012602.shtml (786 words)

	Papa's pal finally gives up the whisky / National Post- Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		COJIMAR, Cuba - Gregorio Fuentes is 104 years old and laments he can no longer stroll down the hill from his little bungalow to the restaurant where he and Ernest Hemingway used to eat a little fish and drink a lot of whisky.
		Fuentes is the last living link between the heroic, hard-drinking age of Hemingway and the down-on-its-luck fishing village of Cojimar, a few miles east of the Cuban capital, Havana.
		There was less than a year's difference in age between Hemingway and Fuentes and they used to celebrate their birthdays together with a bottle of their beloved whisky.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y01/dec01/27e2.htm (776 words)

	Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works
		Fuentes was a born seaman who rode out four hurricanes, swam through shark-infested waters to rescue a drowning man and could feel in his bones precisely where the biggest marlin, sailfish and tarpon would be running, or so Hemingway asserted.
		In a 1949 article, Hemingway said that his own role on their boat was to hook the prey and then "gradually work him closer and closer and then in to where Gregorio can gaff him, club him and take him onboard." Fuentes was born in the Canary Islands sometime between 1897 and 1899.
		Fuentes took on a new job, ferrying Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, to an abandoned cay where they could bathe and Hemingway could work uninterrupted.
	www.ernest.hemingway.com /oldman.htm (2562 words)

	Cojìmar Journal. The Old Man, at 101, Muses on the Sea and 'Papa' / NY Times - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet ...
		Fuentes is a fixture on a Cuban tourist trail dedicated to Hemingway, an American whom Cuba flaunts as a national treasure despite four decades of hostility between Fidel Castro's Government and the United States.
		Fuentes, a Spaniard who moved to Cuba as a child, said he met Hemingway in 1928 in Dry Tortugas off Florida after both were caught in a storm.
		Fuentes, the "Antonio" in "Islands in the Stream," was both skipper and cook, becoming a constant companion who took part even in Hemingway's missions on the Pilar hunting German submarines off the coast of Cuba during World War II.
	www.fiu.edu /~fcf/cojimold.html (1146 words)

	Gregorio López y Fuentes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gregorio López y Fuentes (November 17, 1895 – December 10, 1966) was a Mexican novelist, poet, and journalist.
		López y Fuentes was born in a ranch called El Mamey in the Huasteca region of Veracruz.
		For the captain who inspired Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, see Gregorio Fuentes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregorio_L%C3%B3pez_y_Fuentes (185 words)

	RARA-AVIS Archives: RARA-AVIS: Gregorio Fuentes died
		Gregorio Fuentes, HemingwayÂ¹s boat captain in Cuba, dead at 104 AP Photos HAV101,103; NY184,185 HAVANA (AP) Â Gregorio Fuentes, who was Ernest HemingwayÂ¹s boat captain when the late writer lived in Cuba, died Sunday at age 104, his family said.
		Fuentes had lived in Cojimar, a coastal city about 10 miles east of Havana since arriving in Cuba as an orphan at age 6.
		Hemingway and Fuentes met in 1928, and in the 1930s the writer hired the mariner for $250 a month to care for his boat, El Pilar.
	www.miskatonic.org /rara-avis/archives/200201/0111.html (399 words)

	RARA-AVIS Archives: Re: RARA-AVIS: Gregorio Fuentes died
		fuentes invited hemingway aboard for wine and raw onions, and several years later became the "pillar of the pilar." of their first meeting, fuentes described hemingway as always willing and smiling, very talkative, dark-haired, and honest.
		fuentes, the author, interviewed gregorio in his cojimar house, barefoot with a drink, with his wife there.
		gregorio knew adriana ivancich, the young italian girl that hemingway had the hots for and wrote about in _across the river and into the tree_.
	www.miskatonic.org /rara-avis/archives/200201/0114.html (397 words)

	Hemingway in Cuba and The Search for The Old Man and the Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Even if Fuentes wasn't the basis for the novel, he had been one of Hemingway's closest confidants, his link to the sea, his entree into the world where men like Santiago fished and lived simple lives and told the type of wonderful tales that inspired him.
		In Fuentes, I had found Hemingway's possible historical inspiration, the physical being who had caught the fish that inspired the story, or at least led Hemingway to the sea, to Cojimar, to fishing.
		Gregorio Fuentes died in Cojimar in January 2002 at the age of 104.
	www.literarytraveler.com /hemingway/hemingwaycuba.htm (4145 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Hemingway’s ‘old man of the sea’ dies aged 104
		GREGORIO Fuentes, the former captain of US novelist Ernest Hemingway’s boat in Cuba and his inspiration for The Old Man And The Sea, died yesterday at the age of 104 in the fishing village of Cojímar, friends said.
		Mr Fuentes, born on 11 July, 1897, captained Hemingway’s boat, Pilar, in the years the US author lived on the Caribbean island.
		Mr Fuentes died at his home yesterday morning and was buried at a cemetery in the nearby village of Guanabacoa in the afternoon, friends said.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=50022002 (272 words)

	Cuba Newsletter #3 - WoWCuba - MacQueen's Island Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gregorio Fuentes, the weather beaten friend and captain of Hemingway's fishing boat, the Pilar, has died January 13 at the age of 104.
		Fuentes was the model for "old man" Santiago in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and Antonio in "Islands in the Stream".
		Gregorio Fuentes and Hemingway celebrated their birthdays together with a bottle whisky.
	www.wowcuba.com /general/news3.html (1217 words)

	The Old Man by Richard Louv
		Gregorio Fuentes' eyes smiled but the skin on his face did not move.
		Gregorio was Hemingway's fishing boat captain, and probably served as partial inspiration for the book.
		Perhaps Fuentes' death signals that most of us will never be able to get back there: to that romantic notion that nature is our best friend and worst enemy, that life is best lived on the edge of open seas.
	www.cubanow.org /impressions/information/Louv2.htm (970 words)

	ADIOS COMPANERO GREGORIO! E’ morto a Cuba Gregorio Fuentes, l’ispiratore de "Il vecchio ed il mare" - ...
		Gregorio Fuentes nacque a Cojimar (Cuba), poco distante da L’Avana, nel 1897.
		Da allora Gregorio Fuentes, è rimasto a vivere, a pochi metri dall’amatissimo mare, nella sua casetta di Cojimar, con le pareti piene di ricordi, di quadri e di fotografie che lo ritraggono insieme al suo “amigo Ernest”.
		A coloro che gli chiedevano il segreto della sua longevità, Gregorio rispondeva di aver sempre seguito i consigli del medico che non gli proibiva né i sigari “puros” né il rum, ma che, aggiungeva maliziosamente l’arzillo vecchietto, gli raccomandava l’uso di due profilattici ogni volta che andava con una donna!
	www.arcobaleno.net /personaggi/GregorioFuentes.htm (609 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Hemingway's 'Old Man' dies in Cuba
		Gregorio Fuentes was the captain of Hemingway's boat Pilar during the years that Hemingway lived in Cuba, and he developed a strong friendship with the author.
		Fuentes, then only six years old, was taken in by other Canary island migrants.
		Fuentes recalled the moment when Hemingway finally returned to the United States in 1960, a year before he committed suicide.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1759000/1759143.stm (450 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| NewsandViews \| NewsSpin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Fuentes, born in 1897 on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, immigrated as an orphan to Cuba at age six and was raised among fishermen in Cojímar where he spent his entire life.
		Fuentes was also the foundation of the character Antonio in Hemingway's posthumously published and most autobiographical novel Islands in the Stream.
		Fuentes, who became a larger-than life character around Cojímar of late, was Cuba's last living link to the author.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/013102/newsspin.html (2312 words)

	El Indio by G. Lopez Y Fuentes - 0804464294 : PDXBooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes' 1937 novel 'El Indio' is not another politically correct version of what Western Europeans 'did to' the indigenous population of this hemisphere.
		The deep backdrop is the time circa the Mexican Revolution, but Lopez y Fuentes suggests that the more things change for indigenous peoples in the modern world, the more they stay the same.
		Lopez y Fuentes writes this book as a "composite novel" -- the time and location of the events, as well as names of individuals, are not named.
	pdxbooks.com /compare/0804464294 (518 words)

	Lounging with the 'Old Man' / Gregorio Fuentes gave clues to the true character of his friend Hemingway
		Gregorio Fuentes gave clues to the true character of his friend Hemingway
		Gregorio Fuentes, the former Hemingway sidekick who died last month at 104, did not disappoint me. This was only three years ago, Fuentes was already 101, and yet he had a memorable reaction when I insisted that his grandson translate a question about whether some people have misunderstood Hemingway.
		Fuentes, who came to Cuba from the Canary Islands when he was a boy, was not only a model for the title character in "The Old Man and the Sea," which won Hemingway the Nobel Prize in 1954, he was also captain -- and cook -- of Hemingway's yacht, Pilar.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/03/PK144874.DTL&type=books (1187 words)

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