Thursday, March 28, 2024
 
Click HERE to sign up to receive Eye On Sun Valley's Daily News Email
 
Naomi McDougall Jones and the Ghost of Hemingway
Loading
   
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
 

STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Naomi McDougall Jones has had a fling with the vampire life in her award-winning film “Bite Me.” And she’s currently at work on a script about a haunted castle, which she hopes to turn into a film in the fall of 2022.

One of her newest endeavors is a book she’s writing about her encounter with the ghost of Ernest Hemingway tentatively titled “Big Papa, Little Girl: What I Learned about Womanhood through the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway.”

Jones first came to Sun Valley about five years ago, serving as a featured speaker at David Adler’s Conversations with Exceptional Women and on a tour promoting her film “Imagine I’m Beautiful.”

She had needed a haircut for three weeks and finally managed to carve out an hour while in Ketchum. That haircut would cause her hair to stand on end.

“I sat down in the chair and the hair stylist said, ‘How long have you lived here?’ ” Jones recounted.

Jones responded that she didn’t live in Ketchum only to have the hair stylist retort: “No, no, you live here. If you don’t, you’re going to be back. Hemingway wats you here and he has something he needs to tell you.”

The hairstylist then had Jones write her name on the wall with a Sharpie pen so she would be reminded of their conversation when she did return.

Jones did return in the Fall of 2019 as the inaugural resident in The Community Library’s Writer-in-Residence program. She staged a play reading for her work-in-progress “Hammond Castle” when another woman told her, “I knew you’d be back. Hemingway wants you here. He has a spot in his house and you need to find it and sit and listen.”

The opportunity came sooner than Jones might have expected. Jones was taking out the trash one night when she noticed a light on upstairs in the Hemingway House. Knowing no one had been there, she called the library to have someone turn it off.

But, when she took at the garbage again, the light was on in the same place. This time, Jones got the key herself. Climbing the stairs, she found the light over Hemingway’s typewriter where he wrote looking out onto the Pioneer and Boulder Mountains.

“I sat down and said, ‘What do you want me to know? And I started writing,” she said.

And what did Papa have to say? Well, you’ll just have to wait for Jones’ book to come out!

Oh, and P.S. Naomi McDougall Jones and her husband moved to the Wood River Valley last year during the pandemic.

~  Today's Topics ~


Lou Whittaker Leaves Behind a Legacy of Mountaineering and Storytelling

Free Range Poetry Society to Hold Second Gathering Tonight

Easter Bunny to Begin Hopping Friday
 
 

 

 

 
Website problems? Contact:
Michael Hobbs
General Manager /Webmaster
Mike@EyeOnSunValley.com
 
Got a story? Contact:
Karen Bossick
Editor in Chief
(208) 578-2111
Karen@EyeOnSunValley.com
 
 
Advertising /Marketing /Public Relations
Leisa Hollister
Chief Marketing Officer
(208) 450-9993
leisahollister@gmail.com
 
Brandi Huizar
Account Executive
(208) 329-2050
brandi@eyeonsunvalley.com
 
 
ABOUT US
EyeOnSunValley.com is the largest online daily news media service in The Wood River Valley, publishing 7 days a week. Our website publication features current news articles, feature stories, local sports articles and video content articles. The Eye On Sun Valley Show is a weekly primetime television show focusing on highlighted news stories of the week airing Monday-Sunday, COX Channel 13. See our interactive Kiosks around town throughout the Wood River Valley!
 
info@eyeonsunvalley.com      Press Releases only
 
P: 208.720.8212
P.O. Box 1453 Ketchum, ID  83340
LOGIN

© Copyright 2023 Eye on Sun Valley