2004-12, December 2004 (Weiser)

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  FEATURES

  Hemingway at Work: The Wood River Valley Years
  by Caitlin Copple

  While socially active, and occasionally available for publicity photographs, writer Ernest Hemingway usually kept his Idaho work private, even among friends in the Wood River Valley. Here’s a look at the fleeting, but sometimes telling, impressions the literary giant gave some confidants about his work-in-progress during stays in The Gem State (1939-1961).

  Weiser—Spotlight
  by Betty Derig

  If you visit Weiser during National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest and Festival week, get ready for more than a big party, and great entertainment from more than 300 players. You might just fall under the magic spell of string music so sweet that it, “could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.”

  Gliding With Orofino Gold: How Skiing Spurred Idaho’s First Gold Rush
  by Ron Watters

  Although the gold dust panned out of Orofino Creek in the early 1860s was derided by some, I. C. Smith paid no mind. Smith used so-called “long snowshoes,” the forerunners to modern cross-country and downhill skis, as the innovative vehicles that spurred the first gold rush in what would soon become the Idaho Territory.

  
  DEPARTMENTS

  
  That First Snow: New to Idaho in Winter: Excerpted chapter from the book: From the Ganges to the Snake River
  by Debu Majumdar

  
  Origin of a City Name: From Whence Came Weiser? River Town Apparently Named After Young Explorer on Lewis & Clark Expedition
  by Susan Beitia

  
  One Spud Short: The Wrong Stuff
  by William Studebaker

  
  Holiday Memories: an Unexpected Gift From the Heart: Pre-publication excerpt from: Thorns Have Roses, a book the author expects to publish in 2005
  by Suzanne Locklear

  
  Baseball Essay: A Brush With Whitey Ford: An American Pastime Impression
  by Rick Kmetz

  Deer Stories: A Winter Foreshadowing at Shoup
  by Merle Kearsley

  Front Porch Tales: Moving On, Passing Down
  by Barbara Michener

  Grappling with Growth: Valley County’s Development Challenges: Property Sales Sizzle at New Lake Cascade Ski Resort, Sending Reverberations Through County’s Real Estate Market
  by Alan Rosenberg

  Historical Snapshot: Off to War
  by Arthur Hart

  
  IN THIS ISSUE!

  Boise, Idaho Falls, Ketchum, McCall, Orofino, Pierce, Pocatello, Shoup, Sun Valley, Twin Falls, Weiser