Compared to the rest of the country, Clovis's cost of living is 2.10% Lower than the U.S. average. As of 2014, Clovis's population is 37,538 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 15.12 percent. Average Commute time is 15 minutes.
On this day in 1918, Ernest Hemingway, an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, is struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian front, along the Piave delta, in World War I.
Pilar (boat) Ernest Hemingway owned a 38-foot (12 m) fishing boat named Pilar. It was acquired in April 1934 from Wheeler Shipbuilding in Brooklyn, New York, for $7,495. Pilar was a nickname for Hemingway's wife Pauline and also the name of the woman leader of the partisan band in his 1940 novel of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls.