Museum offers ‘Hands-On History’ activities for kids
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 …
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 …
By Reader Staff
For the past 47 years, Preservation Idaho has hosted the Orchids and Onions awards, which honor individuals and organizations that have made positive contributions to historic preservation …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
With the dawn of a new year, the Reader passed an important milestone: The second iteration of our alt-weekly (started in January 2015) is officially …
By Helen Newton
Reader Contributor
In 1944, Cecil Ereman purchased five acres on West Pine Street from A.C. Eidam, and from that site operated a private garbage collection service for …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Part of my weekly duties as publisher of the Reader is skimming through old newspaper archives for interesting news stories of the past for the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/ Slouches toward Bethlemen to be born?”
— W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” published 1920
It’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In the face of great change, it’s not uncommon to feel helpless. It’s the only constant, after all, along with the passage of time.
As …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Lao Tzu’s take on change remains just as true today as it was 2,500 years ago when he wrote, “If you do not change direction, …
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 …
By Hannah Combs
Reader Columnist
One Friday afternoon with nothing pressing to do, I turned onto the “Popsicle Bridge road.” My eyes habitually searched for a stand of aspen trees …
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