Collection Highlights

Check out this Orvis men’s signature quarter zip pullover in red with splashy lavender trim on the placket. Nothing says “cool & casual” better than splashy lavender trim! It’s soft, it’s warm, and it’s the perfect transition item as summer turns to autumn. Find it at Gold Mine Thrift in size medium for only $18.

Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library. Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum.  More about the Gold Mine stores here.

How cute is this! The Gold Mine Thrift store is always stocked with charming – and practical – housewares like this ceramic gold teapot made by Chantal®. It holds four cups, is dishwasher and microwave safe, and only costs $5.

Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library. Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum.  More about the Gold Mine stores here.

On exhibit in the Library’s foyer, this suitcase is monogrammed with Ernest Hemingway’s initials and features an ID tag “c/o Scribner’s New York.”

This artifact is part of the Library’s current foyer exhibit, “From Paris to Hemingway’s Idaho: “Hunger Was Good Discipline,” which will be on display through December 2025.  

The exhibit that explores Hemingway’s time in Paris in the 1920s, and his later years in Ketchum, Idaho—where he shaped his memories into the pages of A Moveable Feast. More about the exhibit here.

by Ernest Hemingway

“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe’s cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Ulysses; Gertude Stein held court at 27 rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of rue génération perdue; and T. S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London.

It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed. Among these small, reflective sketches are unforgettable encounters with the members of Hemingway’s slightly rag-tag circle of artists and writers, some also fated to achieve fame and glory, others to fall into obscurity.

Here, too, is an evocation of the Paris that Hemingway knew as a young man—a map drawn in his distinct prose of the streets and cafés and bookshops that comprised the city in which he, as a young writer, sometimes struggling against the cold and hunger of near poverty, honed the skills of his craft. A Moveable Feast is at once an elegy to the remarkable group of expatriates that gathered in Paris during the twenties and a testament to the risks and rewards of the writerly life.

Foyer Exhibit: From Paris to Hemingway’s Idaho: “Hunger Was Good Discipline”

The Community Library presents a new foyer exhibit that explores Hemingway’s time in Paris in the 1920s, and his later years in Ketchum, Idaho—where he shaped his memories into the pages of A Moveable Feast. This exhibit will be on display through December 2025.  More here.

Find it in our collection here.

How can you be hot and cool at the same time? We’ll show you! Staff at the Gold Mine Consign store curated this awesome ensemble for a woman who wants a little sass with a lot of class.

Here’s how to construct the look:

• Pink Mini Skirt by Marc Jacobs, $33.60
• White Silk Sleeveless Top by Chelsea Flower, $58.00
• Striped Tie by Valentino, $48.00
• Bucket Hat by Gore-Tex, $16.80
• Genuine Black Leather Belt by Kenneth Cole, $24.00
• Limited Edition Sanrio Boots by Doc Marten, $124.60

Oh, those boots!

The Gold Mine Consign store offers designer clothes, shoes & boots, and accessories for women and men at terrific prices.

The consign store is located at 4th and Walnut in downtown Ketchum, next to Gold Mine Thrift. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library. More here.