George Cross Island Association was initiated in July 1987. As Founder Member, Fred Plenty was also Life Vice President. The George Cross Island Association initiated and assisted in the funding of the Siege Bell Memorial. Designed by sculptor Michael Sandle, the memorial was inaugurated in May 1992 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the awarding of the George Cross to the island of Malta, and is situated overlooking the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta. George Cross Island Association The George Cross Island Association is a charitable organisation that was initiated to honour and remember those that suffered during the Siege of Malta (World War II).
Cross Country Snow Ferrero explains that some early stories from "In Our Time", including "Cross Country Snow", have received readings from critics positioning Hemingway as a misogynist in a world of men without women. In her article "Doomed Biologically: Sex and Entrapment in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Cross Country Snow’," Olivia Carr Edenfield writes that by having Nick strap himself into his ski-binding creates and image of a young man bound and strapped into marriage and impending fatherhood. In the inn, while Nick and George are talking, the reader realizes several things about Nick. He is removed from the surroundings as if he were already