Parrot’s Squawk Talk of the Town
<i> Deutsche Presse-Agentur </i>
ALASSIO, Italy —
Ernest Hemingway’s parrot is alive and squawking, and townspeople here are getting ready for festivities to mark the bird’s 40th birthday Saturday.
Pedrito the Parrot has become the major tourist attraction of this tiny town by the Gulf of Genoa, midway between Genoa and Monaco.
The Nobel Prize winning author, who died in 1961, handed the parrot over to its current owner, Mario Berrino, on Hemingway’s last visit to Alassio.
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