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Hemingway in Idaho

Hemingway in Idaho

The Hemingway Legacy Initiative

Ernest Hemingway held an abiding affection for central Idaho from his first visit to Sun Valley in 1939 to his death in his final home along the Big Wood River in 1961.

Explore Hemingway in Idaho 

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Remembering Hemingway

View photos and listen to Hemingway’s Idaho friends remembering him

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Idaho Public Television Watch the Idaho Public Television “Idaho’s Hemingway” program.

Watch the Idaho Public Television “Idaho’s Hemingway” program.

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Hemingway House

Take a virtual tour of the private Hemingway House.

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Hemingway on Hunting Picnic

Visit Hemingway haunts on an audio walking tour narrated by Mariel Hemingway

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PBS Hemingway

Listen to a PBS conversation on “Hemingway and the Natural World.”

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Explore a virtual exhibit of Hemingway artifacts and influences.

Best of all he loved the fall. . . . with the tawny and grey, the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods, leaves floating on the trout streams and above the hills the high blue windless skies

Hemingway in Idaho

collections and preservation 

collections and preservation 

The Center for Regional History’s Hemingway collection includes photographs, books, correspondence, clothing, and ephemera. It includes special collections from the House, the David Meeker Collection, the Gray Family Collection, and the Michael Reynolds Papers. Many of these items are held in the Regional History Archive and are exhibited on a rotating basis at the Library and the Museum. Items also are available for research requests. 

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Hemingway programs 

Annual Hemingway Seminar
Annual Hemingway Seminar
Annual Hemingway Seminar

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