Dream Festival
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Last week, Reader Publisher Ben Olson and Editor-in-Chief Zach Hagadone shared their “dream” Festival at Sandpoint lineup in lieu of a real 2020 schedule, since the event has been...
Category: Arts & Culture
Mysteries of the deep – Part 2
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors The early morning light bathed the trees in light on the shores of the Pend Oreille River, and Kristoffer Solheim relaxed in the stern of his...
A bookstore and a safe haven
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Corner Bookstore in downtown Sandpoint is receiving national kudos after local book-lover Milinda Driggers won a contest with a letter to Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer. The contest,...
Got stress?
By The Kinnikinnick Native Plant Society Special to the Reader If you’re feeling stressed or out of sorts, a 20-minute walk in a natural, forested setting can produce positive changes in your body and...
Festival memories from the Reader staff
Full circle at The Festival By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Though I’ve lived in Bonner County all my life, I’d attended The Festival maybe once before I was asked to walk onto its stage...
Less Dixie, more vocal
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Little girls who grew up listening to country music in the late 1990s became deeply familiar with the three-part harmony and soaring fiddle sounds of The Dixie Chicks. Instant...
Dream Festival
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff I’m a pragmatic man, so when the Reader editorial staff came up with the idea of conjuring a “Dream Festival” lineup, my mind first flew to impossibilities before I...
Funding The Festival
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For the past 38 years, music lovers from around the region have marked early August on their entertainment calendars in anticipation of The Festival at Sandpoint. This year, owing...
POAC plans for a ‘successful and safe’ Arts and Crafts Fair
By Kathy Hubbard Reader Contributor Some things will change and some things will stay the same as the 48th annual Arts and Crafts Fair fills the streets of downtown Sandpoint on Saturday, Aug. 8...
Punching the keys
By Ben Olson Reader Staff My dad kept a small office upstairs in an alcove outside my childhood room in Westmond. From his ornate roll-top desk, dad would type correspondence on his typewriter, filling...
