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...
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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 Fourth of July through the years
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Like most small towns across the nation, Sandpoint has celebrated our country’s independence on July 4 over the years with a great show of patriotism and mirth. We reached...
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,...
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...
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...
‘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...
