Estelle Constant Norred Lewis

Estelle was born today at 8:00 AM, 1919 in the front bedroom of Click for more detail: Rose Dale Farm. Hannah Brissenden was midwife for the birth. It was a bright and sunny day at Rose Dale Farm, both literally and figuratively.

Graduating in 1937, Estelle immediately took the State Teacher's Exam at the courthouse. Her first teaching job was at Hitt School. She would teach children in the morning and travel to Jonesboro to Arkansas State in the afternoon for her BSE. Later, she would teach veterans at night in Piggott.

On May 21, 1981, she was retired after 41 years of teaching. The community presented her with a plaque for her many years of service.

Happy birthday, Estelle !

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Martha Gellhorn

Martha Ellis Gellhorn and Ernest Miller Hemingway were married on this day in 1940 in Spain.

A journalist, war correspondent, short story writer and novelist, Martha and Ernest started an affair that ended Ernest and Pauline's marriage. Martha's war correspondent career includud the Spanish Civil War (where she spent time with Ernest ) and went through the US Invasion of Panama.

"One of the great war correspondents of the century, brave, fierce and wholly committed to the truth of the situation." - London Daily Telegraph

Martha was born in St. Louis 8 November 1908 and attended Bryn Mawr. She wrote articles for New Republic, served the United Press Bureau in Paris and reported on the Spanish Civil War for Colliers Weekly.

"All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people." - Martha Gellhorn

An accomplished novelist, Martha finished The Lowest Trees have Tops in 1967, an account of her life with Ernest. Their marriage lasted five years when Martha, the only wife to do so, divorced Ernest.

Pauline & Ernest


Pauline Marie Pfeiffer and Ernest Miller Hemingway were divorced today in Spain, in 1940.

A wife who devoted herself to her husband more than her children, Pauline traveled with Ernest everywhere and even left her children in the care of others so she could be with him.

Pauline, who was sought after, rich, educated, a journalist with a large trust fund and a family support system that cared for Ernest and his needs, noticed signs from Ernest consistent with those he had earlier expressed. These were signs of a man having an affair like those with Pauline when he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson.

Ernest rewarded Pauline by having an affair with Martha Gellhorn, a journalist, war correspondent, short story writer and novelist.