Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration (part II)
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
This article is part of a series supported by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and sponsored by Friends of the Scotchman …
Category: History
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The so-called “Timber Wars” are generally described as having occurred in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a period of conflict waged in both the …
A history of remembrance
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Among the most interesting historical sources are the messages soldiers send home from the battlefront. Not so much for what they tell us about the …
The extraordinary and brief life of Bob Marshall
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
Just who was this luminary comet of a man? This figure whose heart failed at the young age of 38 and yet at different times …
History finds a home downtown with grand opening of Museum Guild
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The term “historic partnership” gets used a lot, but is rarely so apt as in the case of the Museum Guild, which will celebrate its …
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to Collaboration
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
The first part of this article appeared in the Feb. 3 edition of the Reader. Find it online at sandpointreader.com.
‘A national ownership’…
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
This story winds through the earliest days of economic development in North Idaho taking in the booms and busts of the first half …
MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in its entirety
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Some moments in American history will be remembered forever. One such moment occurred on Aug. 28, 1963, about 100 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed …
Museum exhibit explores Sandpoint’s mercantile history
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As President Calvin Coolidge said in 1925, “the chief business of the American people is business.” The same could be said of Sandpoint, dating back …
The time Sandpoint celebrated Armistice Day twice
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The headlines in the Pend d’Oreille Review of Friday, Nov. 8, 1918 sound eerily familiar: “Republicans Win County Election”; “With No New Cases of ‘Flu’ …
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Videography Jimmy Matlosz is making mini-documentaries, aka “mini docs” of notable Sandpoint persons. So far subjects have included cinematographer Erik Daarstaad, broadcaster Diane Michaels and man-of-many-talents Dan Shook. Latest is photographer Dann Hall. Go watch them at The Idaho Film Company»
