Mad about Science: Eggnog
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The holidays bring a unique struggle for everyone. My own challenge during this season is standing near the cold case at the grocery store and weighing the pros and...
Category: History
The white elephant in the room
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Over the last thousand or so years, the rituals and traditions surrounding Christmas have been solidified in our minds as perfectly ordinary, though they’re anything but. In reality, if...
Con artists, armed Boy Scouts and Santa Claus
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Nobody knows who wrote the first letter to Santa Claus, but the practice didn’t catch on in mainstream America until a con artist named John D. Gluck became intertwined...
Mad about Science: Disc storage
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I had the privilege of being a part of a library ambassadorial voyage through the state of Idaho earlier this year. The goal of this mission was to make...
When Christmas was spooky season
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff We’ve all heard the reference to “scary ghost stories” in the Christmas carol “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” but most of us probably don’t give it...
Museum offers ‘Hands-On History’ activities for kids
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For many young kids, history is just another subject in school, requiring them to memorize the names of long-dead people and the dates in which they did something notable....
In quest of ‘lost apples’
By Reader Staff When Stan Myers bought the family’s six-acre property above Denton Slough in Hope about 25 years ago, the former dairy farm came with about 18 old apple trees. Myers took it...
A new history
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Big things were happening in the eighth and ninth millennia B.C.E. Archaeologists and anthropologists generally agree that the period saw the beginnings of agriculture, the first settled human communities...
Mad about Science: Convergent evolution
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Have you ever thought about the similarities between a cow and a triceratops? Certainly, there are huge differences between these two creatures that have been separated by a gulf...
Do you have old copies of the Reader lying around?
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Thanks to support from the community, Bonner County Historical Society and the East Bonner County Library District, the Reader has begun archiving the editions that hit Sandpoint shelves each...
