Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Earth is old — more than 4.5 billion years old. As far as we know, life has been clinging to Earth in its various forms for about 3.7 billion...
Category: History
Nature’s monuments
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor In 1910, a passenger moving to Sandpoint by way of the rail may, upon glancing out the window, have seen a pennant waving gently in the breeze to welcome...
The stories a building could tell
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Sandpoint’s first federal building, a grand spectacle of brick done in the Spanish Colonial Revival style located at 419 N. Second Avenue, has been home to the post office,...
James Henry Towles of Hope
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor Hope was a relatively new town when James Henry Towles arrived there no later than 1901. The Northern Pacific laid tracks across the Idaho Panhandle in 1881-1882 and...
The best things in life are free
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Those looking for a free, family friendly and pandemic-precaution-possible activity can look no further than the Bonner County History Museum, as it hosts its regular Free First Saturday event...
At the top of the hill
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When the owners of the property known locally as “The Pine Street Sledding Hill” announced it would no longer be open to the public, many longtime locals acknowledged it...
Fast-moving meals of magic
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff There is nothing quite like enjoying a fresh, warm meal while traveling. It’s largely an experience of the past, with cars and airplanes as the main modes of transportation...
The other bridge
By Chris Corpus Reader Contributor You know you’re a local when, returning from the south, you get that special feeling of “I’m home” — a burst of endorphins or a sigh of contentment when...
Give thanks for the drinks of the inventors of Thanksgiving
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Among the many aspects of Thanksgiving history — our peculiar Usonian holiday — that we’ve collectively forgotten in the interest of socio-political and economic convenience, the prevalence of drink...
A brush with death at the museum
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor “D13, shelf 4; D13, shelf 4,” I muttered to myself as I hurried through the archives. I needed to pull one more artifact for tomorrow’s presentation before closing up....
