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Wagon Days 2014 STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ellevue photographer Michael Edminster was thrilled when his photo of the Big Hitch ore wagons with Baldy in the background landed on the 2007 commemorative Wagon Days poster. But his efforts went up in smoke when the Castle Rock Fire snuffed out Ketchum’s annual Wagon Days celebration. Posters and T-shirts featuring his work were given to the firefighters who quelled the blaze. Following last year’s Beaver Creek Fire, someone on the Wagon Days committee remembered Edminster’s picture. And the committee resurrected the sunrise picture with its orange tint eerily reminiscent of sun shining through smoke for this year’s poster.
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Hemingway’'s Cuba 2014 Festival Promises ‘Edutaining’ Time
Hemingway poses for a photograph in his tower studio in Cuba circa 1949-1950. Courtesy photo
BY BRENNAN REGO Jim Paisley and Keith Joe Dick entertained parade spectators last year with their strolling troubadour act. Look for more of that sort of thing this year.
Edminster will sign copies during the Ketchum Business After Hours from 5 to 6 p.m. tonight at the Ore Wagon Museum, East and Fifth avenues. “We are delighted to feature it—Michael’s a great local photographer who captures our landscape and our area,” said event coordinator Heather LaMonica Deckard. Wagon Days—Ketchum’s marquee Labor Day Weekend event—starts with the poster signing tonight and runs through Sunday. It will include a rodeo, Great Wagon Days Duck Race, ice show featuring Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek and, of course, the signature Big Hitch Parade at 1 p.m. Saturday. The parade will feature the Big Hitch ore wagons—behemoth covered wagons coveted by Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm pulled by a 22mule team on a jerkline. This year’s parade will also feature miniature ore wagons pulled by a 12-mule team and a giant steer from Alberta, Canada. New this year is a cowHAILEY
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or many people who spend time in the Wood River Valley—particularly those with a penchant for writing, hunting or fishing—Ernest Hemingway represents somewhat of a godfather figure. However, Valley residents and visitors who are familiar with his exploits in the area might not be as knowledgeable about the numerous adventures experienced elsewhere across the globe. Most Valley folklore fans are savvy to the fact that Hemingway, aka “Papa” or “The Old Man,” enjoyed blasting for game across Blaine County’s sage-covered hills and casting for trout along its robust network of rivers and streams. Many are aware that he finished writing “For Whom The Bell Tolls” while staying at the Sun Valley Lodge. Some might even know that he did so during the fall of 1939 and 1940, but few among them might guess that he started the novel, which is counted among his top works, while residing in Cuba.
In fact, Hemingway led quite the life in Cuba before bringing his simultaneously lauded and notorious vitality, vigor and verve to the Sun Valley area. From September 3-6, The Community Library in Ketchum along with the Idaho Humanities Council and Boise State University will offer a glimpse into the writer’s time on the crocodile-shaped, Caribbean island during the organizations’ annual Ernest Hemingway Festival, titled this year “Hemingway’s Cuba.” Cuba, often dubbed “The Pearl of the Antilles,” was not charged with connotations of communism and did not conjure thoughts of illegal cigars when Hemingway first stepped foot on its tropical shores. More than three quarters of a century later—following Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959, the subsequent rise of his Communist regime and his transfer of power in 2008 to his brother Raúl Castro—relations between the U.S. and Cuba are less at odds than they were when Hemingway shifted his home base from the island to Idaho in the late 1950s. (The move, according to an essay titled “A Brief History of the Hemingway House” by festival CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
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