Trees as old as time
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.” The property behind her...
Category: History
Beehives to bangs: Hair through the ages
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 proper handlebar mustache? Have...
Wildlife: Friend or faux pas?
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 birdseed around the lawn,...
Museum launches pandemic ‘portraits’ initiative
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 their porches and then...
The threads that bind us
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 Mrs. Norman Campbell in...
A North Idaho pandemic: Then & Now
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff For everyone alive in North Idaho today, the novel coronavirus outbreak is uncharted territory. Across the world, leadership is suspending gatherings, closing schools and encouraging “social distancing” — in...
Captive audience
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Regardless of whether you’re on COVID-19 quarantine at home, most of the world’s premiere art galleries, museums, libraries or exotic places are, or probably will soon be, on public...
Celebrating a century of suffrage
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff History books are undoubtedly a vital tool in understanding the past. It only makes sense to keep records of years and days on which monumental events happened. One such...
‘The story of Bonner County’
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When Helen Newton took a U.S. history class at Sandpoint High School in the late 1950s, she was required to do an oral presentation on the topic of her...
Rose Bowl mountain memories
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Every New Year’s day I watch the Rose Bowl football game and become wistful. The camera always pans to the San Gabriel foothills above the stadium. When I was...
