Hunting for history with the Elks
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors The weightlessness of being carried in father’s arms. A blast of sharp winter wind whistling through the crack of the door at his back. A glimpse...
Category: History
‘The city of our dreams,’ one school at a time
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors She lay in bed, musing about the churches, schools and civic centers that would one day replace the wild land that surrounded her cabin in every...
One room to school them all
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors Scrambling onto his brother’s shoulders and waving his arms wildly in the air, he knew he could catch the teacher’s eye. Spotting the young boy above...
Mysteries of the Deep: Part 3
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors Her speech well rehearsed, she had just settled into a light doze when a touch of turbulence brought her back to attention. She glanced out the...
‘They are stealing our history’
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Bonner County Museum will close its doors to the public the week of Aug. 24 to heighten security measures after several items were stolen from exhibits in recent...
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 the stern of his...
Mysteries of the deep
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, Civil War General Thomas...
Escape to the lake and the advent of tourism
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 lawn to scope out...
The one who Shook up City Beach
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 — not even the Great...
An underground mystery
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 First Avenue in Sandpoint,...
