By Reader Staff Back in the 1920s, community picnics were the highlight of summer in Bonner County. On Sunday afternoons, after a long week of work, neighbors would catch up and play games, and...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For many young kids, history is just another subject in school, requiring them to memorize the names of long-dead people and the dates in which they did something notable....
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In collaboration with The Bonner County History Museum, celebrated naturalist and writer Jack Nisbet will give a presentation on fur trader, surveyor and cartographer David Thompson at the Heartwood...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The Bonner County History Museum and Sandpoint Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Division have once again joined forces to lead weekly walking tours, making the area’s history fun and...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As President Calvin Coolidge said in 1925, “the chief business of the American people is business.” The same could be said of Sandpoint, dating back more than 100 years,...
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors Delia Holton peered over the edge of the scow into the depths of Lake Pend Oreille. The boat rocked gently beneath the dancing feet of her family...
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor Peter LaFond had been playing the real estate market, carefully buying properties and trading up for more valuable investments. With a house in town and a 20-acre lot on...
By Hannah Combs and Will Valentine Reader Contributors “‘Sandpoint’ suggests and always will suggest to the outsider a dreary waste of blowing sand,” wrote George R. Barker, editor of the Pend d’Oreille Review newspaper,...
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor According to an article in a 1917 issue of the Pend d’Oreille Review, the history of the match industry “reads like a romance.” Match factory workers of the mid-1800s...
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...
