Gold Mine Consign is now featuring designer skiwear - hot hot hot - for the cold cold cold season. This ensemble features a Bogner pink and purple embroidered ski jacket ($218) and white boots with metallic details from Alexander McQueen ($398). The Consign store offers designer clothes, shoes & boots, and accessories for women and men at terrific prices. Located at 4th and Walnut in downtown Ketchum, next to Gold Mine Thrift. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, … [Read more...] about Hot New Looks at Consign
Collection Highlights
1776 Dollhouse
This exquisite dollhouse, created by artist and collector Carol Dumke, is an example of a New England Colonial house. Carol studied the period and chose the dolls and pieces to furnish all the rooms. The end result gives a sense of that home may have felt like for families of this era. Why did she pick 1776? "Common Sense" was published by Thomas Paine in January, advocating for independence from Great Britain. The Colonists fought intensely with the British, and it was ... … [Read more...] about 1776 Dollhouse
Designer Ski Wear at Consign
Gold Mine Consign is now sporting designer skiwear for men and women to help you kick off the winter season in style. You'll find stories in every stitch, warmth in every layer. The Consign store offers designer clothes, shoes & boots, and accessories for women and men at terrific prices. 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. … [Read more...] about Designer Ski Wear at Consign
Hemingway Press Reviews
In late 1959, Ernest Hemingway received a series of German press reviews from his publisher in Hamburg, Germany, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH. The press compilation starring Hemingway came from widely different publications across Germany, from mainstream newspapers in Berlin to small school newspapers in München. In a time before the internet and easier global promotion, Hemingway’s figure loomed large as one of the 20th century’s most renowned literary figures. They reveal the conversations happening … [Read more...] about Hemingway Press Reviews
Ketchum’s Industrial Past: The Philadelphia Smelter
The Wood River Valley is best known today for its outdoor recreation and scenic beauty, but in the late 1800s, its mountains buzzed with industry. A newly acquired painting at the Wood River Museum of History and Culture offers a rare visual record of that era: a detailed 19th-century depiction of the Philadelphia Smelter, once located at the mouth of Warm Springs Canyon in Ketchum. The painting likely dates to the 1880s and illustrates a moment of booming silver industry in the Wood River … [Read more...] about Ketchum’s Industrial Past: The Philadelphia Smelter
Hemingway’s Suitcase
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 … [Read more...] about Hemingway’s Suitcase
