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Croney Cove Bavarian Christmas Market at…
PHOTOS & STORY BY KAREN BOSSICK
Y Look for Santa at Saturday’s Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in Hailey. Santa will be arriving by sheepwagon, in order to let Rudolph and the others rest up before Christmas Eve.
Christmas in Hailey Saturday PHOTO & STORY BY KAREN BOSSICK
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anta’s used to taking a fire engine in Ketchum and a horsedrawn sleigh in Sun Valley. He plans to arrive in Hailey by sheep wagon. You can catch him between 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday during the annual Hailey Christmas Tree Lighting at the Meriwether Building on First Avenue and Bullion Street. There’ll be a live nativity with live animals, wise men, HOLIDAY raffle shepherds Starting this Saturday, and angels downtown businesses sponsored in Hailey will start giving by the Yelout tickets for their populow Brick lar Holiday Raffle. Road and The first drawing will Atkinsons’ be held at noon next SatMarket. urday, Dec. 10. The raffle There’ll will continue the followbe face ing Saturdays, Dec. 17 painting and 24. for children Raffle tickets can be and a ginobtained with purchase gerbread of $10 or more from man cookie participating Hailey busidecorating nesses. provided by Info: 788-3484 Atkinsons’. The Santa Babies from Music n’ Me will provide live music, as will the Middle School Choir, B-Tones, Colla Voce and Enchante under the direction of Max Stimac and R.L. Rowsey. And pucker up—you can practice for Valentine’s Day at the Catholic Church Youth Group’s kissing booth. For $1 you can have a chocolate kiss or a kiss on the cheek. The youth group will use the money to make hygiene packets to distribute during the Christmas season at Souper Suppers. And Moms from the Sun Valley Hockey team will sell Christmas wreaths while Girl Scouts sell cookies—straight from their oven, rather than Girl Scout cookie factories. Free cocoa will be provided to everyone, while Cowboy Cocina will be selling beer and wine. For information or to participate, contact Mitzi Mecham at 720-3918 or Kim Garvin at 788-7070. tws
ou wouldn’t think a homestead built during Ketchum’s rough and tumble mining days would have much in common with a lakeside Bavarian resort where kids attend school in a 1764 castle. But Lisa Vierling and Michael Stoneback’s rustic log home eight miles past the ski lifts on Warm Springs Road not only serves as the setting for the annual Bavarian Christmas Market, it offers a touch of Bavaria in the midst of the Sawtooth National Forest. Their Croney Cove home features a Bavarian-style hip roof, outdoor balconies and window boxes filled with flowers on the outside. And the Bavarian theme continues inside, with antique Bavarian tile on the wall and Bavarian mementos, such as sleds, a Swiss bell belt on the barn, schnapps holders, a dowry trunk for a young bride’s clothes and linens and a wedding target meant for wedding guests to take a shot at. It’s the perfect setting for what will be the eighth annual Bavarian Christmas Market on Dec. 10 and 11. Proceeds from the market help send Ketchum youngsters to Ketchum’s sister city of Tegernsee, a resort town about 30 miles south of Münich. At the same time, Croney Cove’s roots in Ketchum’s mining history provide a touch of the Wild West for Tegernsee youth who visit Sun Valley. The seven-acre compound that comprises Croney Cove was originally settled in 1890 by Williams Warfield, for whom the hot springs across the road is named. Maud Baugh, a woman who dressed in flour sacks, picked her teeth and had long hair under her arms that she pulled on as she talked to people, bought the place a few years later. She built bathhouses utilizing thermal water on the property, along with a hotel, gambling casino, restaurant, laundry and brothels for the miners from the nearby Blue Kitten, Rooks Creek and Thompson Creek mines and Lewis ore wagon drivers enroute to Atlanta mines. One of the brothels still sits in the Croney Cove compound. “I don’t know how many miners there were in the area, but one of the mines had a 16-hole privy, so I’m guessing they had a couple of hundred, at least,” Vierling said. “Later, the Board family logged this area and Ivan Swaner’s mother cooked for miners and lumberjacks and opened
Above: Lisa Vierling and Michael Stoneback’s home sits next to one of the brothels that they salvaged from turn-of-the-20 th-century Croney Cove. Right: This sister city plaque denotes one of Vierling’s passions. Bottom Right: Lisa Vierling tends to the flowers in her greenhouse.
summer camps for the people who came up from Twin Falls.” Vierling, whose Seattle family had long vacationed in Sun Valley, bought the property in 1989. “It turned out that my father, who was a big fly-fisherman, had taken a picture of me standing on a rock in the creek right across from here when I was 10,” said Vierling, who owns World Cup Travel. Vierling tore down the old sod-covered log pool house that Warfield had built for his arthritic wife. Then she rebuilt the cabin, which pioneers built without nails, and lived in it while she built her own home. She designed the new 2,500-squarefoot home with a Bavarian-style hip roof. Then she built a large two-room Bavarian-style “barn” with a sleeping loft and a two-story, 1,500-square-foot Bavarianstyle chalet guesthouse. The compound has been featured in log home books and used as a photo shoot for
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