Late Tuesday
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It might seem like Mardi Gras is one big party filled with beads, booze and public debauchery, but the origins of this annual event actually date far back to...
Category: History
History on the menu
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff W e tend to think of the foods in our Thanksgiving spread as the definition of “traditional” American fare — as intrinsic to our provincial identity as, well, apple...
Community, cake and a time capsule
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff This year marks half a century since locals teamed up to officially incorporate the Bonner County Historical Society and, in turn, envision a home for the county’s history with...
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 Peaks Wilderness. Previous installments...
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 woods and the courtroom...
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 specifics of warfare, but...
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 was a forester, philosopher,...
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 grand opening Friday, March...
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’ In the Inland Northwest,...
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 of the 20th century....
