The Sandpoint Eater: Generational fare
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Call them what you may — miners’ pasty, Cornish pasty, Butte pasty or meat hand pie — no other food evokes stronger food memories for …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Call them what you may — miners’ pasty, Cornish pasty, Butte pasty or meat hand pie — no other food evokes stronger food memories for …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
This missive has made it into the pages of the Reader against all odds from a world so far removed from reality that time and …
‘Home’ is a moveable feast
By Zach Hagadone
Images of Thanksgiving — at least the idealized ones — are of tables loaded with food in cozy, home-feeling places that are …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
It’s come to my attention that my life story — such as it is — could be considered less than normal, due to the presence …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I saw a movie at the old drive-in theater in my hometown when I was in high school… sittin’ in my tired ’54 Chevy… speaker …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
My old Montessori school once stood imposingly tall — for a toddler — between the Sandpoint Charter School and the roaring traffic of U.S. Highway …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
For many years, in the earlier part of this century, my friends and I took to referring to Sandpoint as “The Shire” — owing not …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
My birthday was last week. Every year as it draws close, I use the day as a yardstick to measure my goals list for the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
If I want to remember when something happened, I scroll through the photos on my phone.
I last cleaned out the folder in late 2019, …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Food Columnist
Like it was yesterday, I can still recall the cocoa-brown dress, with candy-pink piping, that I wore for my first “real” restaurant experience. The …
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