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True confession: I’m not a regular Town and Country reader, but when I heard about the Hemingway spread in the September edition, I sought it out. In the article, “Surviving Hemingway,” granddaughter Mariel Hemingway and her daughter Langley return to Sun Valley, Idaho for a fashion shoot, photo spread and to share thoughts on...
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When Ev and Susan Diehl took over a historic inn in Cody, Wyo., they found plenty of clutter in the basement, and a few treasures hidden amid it. One of them was Ernest Hemingway’s signature on the guest registry. He signed in on Oct. 16, 1932. “It was here that Hemingway mailed the final...
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The writer’s legacy in the town that he helped transform BY DAVID FREY PHOTOGRAPHY MARK OLIVER ILLUSTRATION GINA SCANLON On the morning of Ernest Hemingway’s death, long shadows tugged at a typewriter perched at the window where clear Idaho skies hovered over the Wood River Valley. Throughout his writing life, Hemingway had always visited...
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The write-up in New West has produced some great suggestions for other Hemingway outposts in the American West. Here are a couple: Maybe David Frey should visit Sunlight Basin and Crandall in northwest Wyoming , and Cooke City MT before he tops off that global Hemingway piece. Then again , maybe we’d like to...
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New West gave Papa’s Planet some great PR today on its Books page. Here it is: Regular New West contributor and Colorado-based travel writer David Frey has been off on a dream trip for several weeks, following in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway through Europe.  Frey is documenting it all on his blog, Papa’s Planet,...
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I end the night at the Casino, probably the only bar in town Hemingway would still recognize. The Tram is a vacant lot now. The Alpine recently burned down. The Sawtooth Club has been remodeled in rustic Ketchum chic. The Ram and the Dudgen Room at Sun Valley have gone decidely upscale. The Casino...
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