Tagged: Tim Henney
When You’re Smiling: Part 3 (The Finale)
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
This was originally intended as a two-part feature matching happy Sandpoint citizens with upbeat songs from aged vinyl records. However, after a mob of Reader…
When You’re Smiling: Part 1
By Tim Henney
Reader Contriabutor
It’s difficult to describe how powerful several bulging bookcases of vinyl, long-play records have been in shaping my life.
A 1956 Cal-Berkeley co-ed has been …
Too Darn Hot: Looking back over 70 years of Broadway musicals
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Living in and around NYC for much of our pre-dotage life, my 1957 bride and I saw and fell in love with Broadway musicals.
In …
A hippie on the Long Island Railroad
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
The following is an unabridged journal of a conversation with my visiting kid brother, the late Christopher Clark Lewis, commuting on the Long Island Railroad …
Leadership on Boyer and in Laclede
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Lois Miller, a vibrant 89, never reminded me of Winston Churchill until a couple of weekends ago when I saw her in influential action with …
That earlier era of national dread
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
The reason journalism giants Ben and Cameron like me to write for the Reader is because I’m old. They invite me to remember things. I …
Read your history to understand the present
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
For those disposed to intellectual exploration in a time of national emotional havoc, a recent Reader issue offered a timely recommendation: read, or re-read, William …
Days of Auld Lang Syne
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
After Scottish bard Robert Burns, borrowing words and sentiments from others before him, wrote “Auld Lang Syne” in 1788 it became, after “Happy Birthday,” the …
Sandpoint’s secret sister: Moab, Utah
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Not every Reader reader knows that Nelson, B.C., is Sandpoint’s sister city. Or that Yalta, Crimea, where FDR, Churchill and Stalin divided up the post-war …