Many things which attracted Ernest D A Trail Creek The Community Library O Hemingway to the Wood River Valley in the Hemingway Memorial R Cabin K mid-20th century are still available today, Find books by and about Ernest Hemingway E A sculpture of Hemingway E R C C C including: and visit the Regional History Department’s overlooks Trail Creek, 1.5 miles C L L I I A from SV Lodge. A R Hemingway collection. (208) 726-3493 R 5 T —He loved bird hunting in the fall T Hunting 7 Sun Valley Resort Y season. A W Lodge Room #206, the Ram Bar, Shooting—Trap and Skeet shooting are still H G I Duchin Room, and Trail Creek available at the Sun Valley Gun Club. H Cabin all have Hemingway Fishing —Fishing was his favorite sport, but SUN VALLEY it was his son, Jack, who was instrumental Ketchum Cemetery INN connections. (208) 622-4111 W Ernest Hemingway’sA R graveM can S in protecting the Silver Creek preserve, the S A P R D I N SUN VALLEY place his father fi rst introduced him to local be found centrally located, G D L E R O S A LODGE D trout fi shing. under large evergreen trees, R O A Tennis —He and Martha Gellhorn played with family and friends buried D doubles with Gary and Rocky Cooper. D around him. O —Hunting at Silver Creek often L Sun Canoeing L required some paddling. A Valley S R P D R Lake U C A Writing—The valley is still an inspirational E A V O R E O E place for great writers. The Sun Valley Writers R A D L L E A Y K Conference hosts writers from around the D Sawtooth Club, Whiskey Jacques M V E H I L L A L O E L globe each year and the Community Library S T I A R N V N These restaurants and bars on the T H T I X N holds frequent literary programs in their S U S T F S I R D R former site of the Alpine Club and N L O W O O C lecture room. A E I A S S S A E H K Café, offered slot machine gambling C I D N D —Sun Valley offers a vibrant O S S Wining & Dining G Christiania Restaurant N T T D O R foodie culture. while it was still legal in Ketchum. N E A E V A T Hemingway had dinner here with his wife, Mary, E V E on July 1, 1961 the night before his death. For more information on the activities available S T in the area, visit the Visitor Information Center S T Casino Bar R F I T or call (208) 726-3423. S R This drinking establishment E I V R has undergone few changes Ketchum Korral B i Originally named the MacDonald Cabins, since Hemingway’sg visits. Hemingway fi rst stayed here in 1946. W o o d N A D E L R E N R S E Ernest Hemingway i v e r 5 5 7 The Sun Valley Museum of History 7 Silver Creek Preserve Y Festival Y A S K A (25 miles south) (Start tourI here!)L I F T W Visit comlib.org for more 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. museum contains exhibitsRun on local history,Wood ski River H information on this annual Plaza Trails Operated by The Nature Conservancy, there is a visitor heritage, and a dedicated “Hemingway inBike Idaho” Path event. 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 fi sh, 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, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, using a in Idaho new modern writing style. Union Pacifi c’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 fi nd: new Sun Valley Resort near Ketchum, Idaho. In September of 1939, Hemingway arrived, accompanied by Martha ATour of Ernest Hemingway in Idaho: A Guide Gellhorn, his soon-to-be third wife. They stayed in Sun by Marsha Bellevance is short booklet Valley Lodge suite 206 where he worked on fi nishing his Ketchum & Sun Valley great Spanish Civil War novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. 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 Jack Hemingway. 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 by Jack Hemingway is closed at the time, so they stayed at MacDonald’s Cabins With and Without Papa (now known as The Ketchum Korral). He was interviewed an intimate look inside the Hemingway family. 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 fi fth 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 two plane crashes. In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Idaho years. literature for his novel, The Old Man and the Sea. 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, The Dangerous Summer, 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..