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Y Y A S K A (25 miles south) (Start tourI here!)L I F Festival 2017 T W Located in the Ketchum Forest Service Park, the H One of Hemingway’s favorite places, the preserve is G River I open to the public for fi shing, picnics, and nature walks. September 7-9, 2017 museum contains exhibitsRun on local history,Wood ski River H Plaza Trails Operated by The Nature Conservancy, there is a visitor heritage, and a dedicated “Hemingway inBike Idaho” Path center and a Hemingway Memorial. (208) 788-2203 exhibit. (208) 726-8118 To Hailey, Bellevue, Silver Creek If you would like to learn more about Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway’s life and writings, Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, Ernest especially during his time in Idaho, please in Oak Park, Illinois. As a child, he learned to fish, shoot, visit the Sun Valley Museum of History hunt, and camp; and loved to read and write. Instead of going to college, he volunteered for World War I and was Hemingway and The Community Library in Ketchum, wounded in Italy. After the war, he wrote two best selling Idaho. novels, and , using a in Idaho new modern writing style. Union Pacific ’s marketing team invited Hemingway, Here are some of the many great resources you a now famous writer and well-known celebrity, to visit their will find: new Sun Valley Resort near Ketchum, Idaho. In September of 1939, Hemingway arrived, accompanied by Martha A Tour of Ernest Hemingway in Idaho: A Guide Gellhorn, his soon-to-be third wife. They stayed in Sun by Marsha Bellevance is a short booklet Valley Lodge suite 206 where he worked on finishing his Ketchum & Sun Valley great novel, . containing a concise biography, chronology, He worked in the mornings, hunted in the afternoons, and map, and sketches of his favorite places. enjoyed gambling in the bars in the evenings. Hemingway quickly made friends; and when one was accidentally killed Hemingway in the Autumn by David in a hunting accident, he read a eulogy containing the Butterfi eld features interviews with scholars, now famous line “...best of all he loved the fall...”, which is inscribed on the Hemingway Memorial. Hemingway several of Ernest’s Idaho friends, and his son returned to Idaho in the fall of 1940 and 1941, bringing his . sons along for the visit. After World War II, Hemingway came back to Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life Idaho with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh. The Lodge was With and Without Papa by Jack Hemingway is closed at the time, so they stayed at MacDonald’s Cabins an intimate look inside the Hemingway family. (now known as The Ketchum Korral). He was interviewed there, in 1947, by Lillian Ross for the New Yorker Magazine. After mornings of writing, his afternoons were often spent Hemingway: The Final Years by Michael hunting birds at Silver Creek. Reynolds is the fifth volume of a comprehensive Although Hemingway lived in Cuba, he traveled Hemingway biography, which encompasses the often. During a safari in Africa, he was severly injured in Idaho years. two plane crashes. In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in literature for his novel, . When he returned to Idaho in 1958, he was High on the Wild by Lloyd Arnold concerned about the political situation in Cuba and How It Was by Mary Hemingway was seeking a drier climate for relocating much of his collections from humid Cuba. Ernest and Mary purchased Presented by a home in Ketchum in 1959. There he worked at a standing desk on the posthumously published works, A Special Thanks to: Moveable Feast, , and Islands in Marsha Bellevance, original text the Stream. He died in his Ketchum home on July 2, 1961, Evelyn Phillips, map from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and is buried in the The John F. Kennedy Library, photo Ketchum Cemetery.