From the homestead to the horizon
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 time marches on and...
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The changing faces of Sandpoint
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, you might end up...
Taking the sand out of ‘Sand Point’
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 of the Pend d’Oreille Review newspaper,...
A factory, a bridge and the name that made them legendary
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 that no longer beckon...
A match made in Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor According to an article in a 1917 issue of the Pend d’Oreille Review, the history of the match industry “reads like a romance.” Match factory workers of the mid-1800s...
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 the breeze to welcome...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
