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.
Hemingway's first book of short stories was called In Our Time. One of its stories, Big Two Hearted River, told of the effects of war on a young man who was taking a long fishing trip in Michigan. Hemingway had learned from his father, when he was a boy, about living in the wild.