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 …
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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.” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
What’s in a name? (pt. 5)
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
This is the fifth and final installment of a series exploring the origins of where we got some of our placenames from. Last week, we …
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