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 …
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 …
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
In this three-part series, we explore the formation of Lake Pend Oreille and the things that may lurk in its unknown depths.
In August 1866, …
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
Laying her luggage on the bed (a real innerspring mattress, just like back home), she steps out the door and across the …
By Hannah Combs and Chris Corpus
Special to the Reader
Young Vernon Shook didn’t let anything stand in the way of his ambitions to become an engineer or doctor — …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When Heather Upton, interim director of the Bonner County History Museum, received a tip that secret rooms had been uncovered beneath the Abbott Building on …
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
My first spring in Sandpoint, I visited a friend at her cabin and she wouldn’t let me leave without a visit to “the big tree.” …
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
Have you found yourself lately standing in front of the mirror, hoping that quarantine will last the three months it takes to flesh out a …
By Hannah Combs
Special to the Reader
Courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum
Since the last of the snow melted, I have been scattering small piles of …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner County History Museum is joining forces with local photographer Kiersten Patterson to launch “Sandpoint Porchraits” — an initiative to photograph Sandpoint families on …
By Hannah Combs
Special to the Reader
Courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum
On a fine summer morning in 1918, seven women gathered at the home of …
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