In May 2025 we were in Princeton, researching Lanham’s papers in the Special Collections libraries and touring campus. Thank you to the Friends of the Princeton University Library for our grant!
In September 2024 we attended the Sawtooth Writing Retreat led by Dr. Mac Test of the Boise State University Hemingway Center. Our instructors were award-winning authors Kim Cross and Paul Bogard. They gave us great suggestions on framing our story. Highly recommend the retreat, held once a year, for its community, location, instruction and food!
Here we are with Mac, Paul, and Kim.
The retreat was featured on Idaho News 6:
We have been to Princeton University, site of Lanham’s expansive bequest, and to other archives. Last summer we camped in the glorious Sawtooth Mountains near Ketchum, Idaho, and visited the Ketchum Community Library. The curators asked Greer to assess one of Hemingway’s bayonets from his Idaho home, and Greer has discussed this with the authors of Hemingway’s Guns. Initial findings are that the bayonet is for a Swedish Mauser, used in Finland during the Russo-Finnish war of 1939-40, where Hemingway’s then-wife Martha Gellhorn traveled on her journalism beat. She may have brought the bayonet back to Idaho as a gift. Research continues.