Wounded in Vietnam, fifty years ago
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor John “Doc” Ivy served five tours in Vietnam from 1966-1971. He was introduced in the Reader on May 23, 2017, as my beloved veteran neighbor. Today, at age 72,...
Category: History
A connection to the past
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s often said that journalists write the “first draft of history.” In the case of North Idaho native and former journalist Gary Pietsch, he has a chance to add...
Mostek and Stockman: Exploring the history of Bonner County’s Pearl Harbor casualties
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As with countless communities across the United States, the people of Bonner County were shocked and angered by the news that forces of the Japanese Empire had attacked ships...
‘The saloon will never come back’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It is a well known fact that Sandpoint’s early history was rough and tumble. When researchers excavated the original townsite on the Sand Creek peninsula preceding work on the...
Leading ladies of the local past
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When Bonner County Museum curator Heather Upton showed her “Tales From the Wardrobe” exhibit, the elaborate dresses and constricting whalebone corsets that the women of Bonner County wore around...
Case cold: Bonner County’s unsolved murders
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor It took three decades for the family of Tammy Bristow to see a break in the investigation of her murder. Strangled at her south Sandpoint apartment in 1987, Bristow’s...
‘Play in peace forever’
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff After months of activity, War Memorial Field is looking particularly tranquil this time of year. A November weekday morning bears no resemblance to a Saturday night in early August,...
Archaeological find near Grangeville could rewrite history
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For upwards of 16,000 years, some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the Americas lay buried in Idaho, waiting to be discovered. According to research published Aug....
At the Root of it all
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Looking to buy some property in Hope in 2002, Jackie Henrion and her husband spent a night at Hotel Hope. The building, which was constructed circa 1897, houses an...
Going back to The Garden
By Jim Healey Reader Contributor This month marks the 50th anniversary of a musical, cultural, social and political event that has acquired mythic status over time. Nearly two generations have passed since those three...
