ML Recommends
ML Recommends: September 2007
Antiques in Jackson Hole, The New Sundance Catalog Store, High-country Cooking, and more

Fighting Bear Antiques
“I wanted the eclectic look of a Western lodge or dude ranch in the 1920s and 1930s,” says Terry Winchell of Fighting Bear Antiques, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “For example, the ranchers could have brought some Gustav Stickley furniture from the East, had rustic furniture made locally and collected Navajo rugs brought up north from trading posts in the Southwest.” Winchell, who owns the antique store along with his wife, Claudia, offers an inventory that attracts the casual buyer as well as the serious collector.

THE MIX: Specializes in furnishings by Thomas Molesworth, rustic furniture, folk art, American Indian beadwork, Navajo rugs and textiles, and other fine antiques.

THE OWNERS: The Winchells have been in the antiques business in Jackson for more than 28 years and sit on the Western Design Conference board (westerndesignconference.com). Terry is the author of Molesworth (gibbs-smith.com) and is working on a book called Jackson Style.

Fighting Bear Antiques, 375 S. Cache, Jackson Hole, WY, (307) 733-2669, fightingbear.com

Sundance Catalog Opens a Store
Founded by Robert Redford in 1989 on a mountain in Utah, the Sundance Catalog Company (sundancecatalog.com) recently opened its flagship retail store at Park Meadows near Denver—the first of 20 planned nationwide over the next five years. Originally located in the General Store at Sundance Village, it was conceived to support the then-fledgling Sundance Film Festival. The catalog makes it a point to focus on environmental sustainability and to integrate the one-of-a-kind works of individual artists and artisans.




Wine in the Pines
Indulge in high-country cuisine and more than 500 international wines at the 24th annual Wine in the Pines, a decadent two-night black-tie fundraising gala benefiting Cerebral Palsy of Colorado. Founded in 1983 by Mike and Margaret Smith, the event features silent and live auctions and has raised more than $2 million for Cerebral Palsy of Colorado’s early-education, statewide-employment and family-support programs. October 19 & 20, 2007, wineinthepines.org.


High-country Cuisine
Enjoying the great outdoors shouldn’t preclude a delicious meal. In Picnics, authors Hilary and Alex Heminway provide inspiring—and doable—ideas and recipes for creative picnics you can enjoy everywhere from atop a snowy mountain peak to down at the river’s edge. Gibbs-Smith, $19.95.
 
Recipes for high-country style abound in Colorado Cravings, a book of entertaining and decorating ideas—think fly-fishing parties and wild West dinners—by Gail Riley, longtime innkeeper of Evergreen, Colorado’s, charming Highland Haven Creekside Inn. Blueline Publishing, $35.

Discover the fascinating histories of 15 great lodges in 10 national parks in the American West, from the Old Faithful Inn to the Ahwahnee Hotel, and re-create delicious signature recipes from each with Kathleen Bryant’s Western National Parks’ Lodges Cookbook. Northland Publishing, $24.95.

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