Nature’s monuments
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 …
Tagged: history
The stories a building could tell
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Sandpoint’s first federal building, a grand spectacle of brick done in the Spanish Colonial Revival style located at 419 N. Second Avenue, has been home …
The other bridge
By Chris Corpus
Reader Contributor
You know you’re a local when, returning from the south, you get that special feeling of “I’m home” — a burst of endorphins or a …
‘The city of our dreams,’ one school at a time
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
She lay in bed, musing about the churches, schools and civic centers that would one day replace the wild land that surrounded …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Human rights for all
By Timothy Braatz
Reader Contributor
Black History Month was created to celebrate the achievements of people typically excluded from the telling of U.S. history. In that spirit, here are three …
Mad About Science: Awesome African-American scientists (pt. 1)
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
When I was in school, we learned about one black scientist: George Washington Carver, whom my history book at the time summed up as: “The …
