When Mary Moriarty and her husband, a retired New York police officer, moved to the "valley of the sun, " she wasn't sure what to expect.
Her parents were featured in photographs with Ernest Hemingway on the walls of the Sun Valley Lodge.
Mr. Holding's 1977 acquisition of the Sun Valley Resort sparked local skeptics to speculate he would flip the resort.
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It's early evening in the Bitterroot Valley, and the sun's rays mingle with plumes of smoke rising from the mountains as firefighters load up their trucks before heading out for the overnight shift.
From his modest ranch home in the hills of Sun Valley, Calif.
The kitchen and the adjoining living room afforded Liz a spectacular view of the horizon dominated by Sun Valley's rugged mountain skyline, still aglow at 10:10 p.m.
By contrast, StockFarm, near Hamilton in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, has the same amount of shared acreage as Sun West, but it has a golf course and an equestrian center.
Last week, a quiet work period thanks to the July 4th holiday, several firms in Silicon Valley, including Sun Microsystems, simply shut down parts of their operations and made workers take the whole week as vacation.
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By teaming up with its Silicon Valley neighbours, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, two of the biggest makers of powerful Unix servers, Oracle's new data centres are able to supply the gamut of hardware and services.
The dot-com plague has spread to Net infrastructure giants like Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people) and Sun--the two hated Silicon Valley rivals of Microsoft who funded the legal assault that began in Palo Alto, Calif.
The big red-grape-growing regions of South Australia, such as Coonawarra and the Barossa Valley, get enough sun and heat to ripen the fruit every year.
His speech so galvanised the gathered titans that he now has the backing of Sun Microsystems, Google and several big Silicon Valley venture-capital funds and investors.
And so, like Deadheads 40 years before them (but with espresso as their drug of choice), a new tribe has formed to follow the route from Sun Valley to Aspen to Austin to Switzerland.
Outside my hotel room window, a thin layer of clouds has stolen over the valley, diffusing the light and making it difficult to see where the sun really is.
At that Davos meeting, Schmidt held court with a bunch of reporters as was his custom (he used to do this all the time in Sun Valley).
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