The Road That Joined the Halves By Marylyn Cork I first heard about the history of the old North and South Highway from my father. It seemed to fascinate him a little, although he didn’t become an Idahoan
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It’s Greek to Idaho By Steve Carr Many historians maintain that the celebrated Greek physicist and fly fisherman, Archimedes, was in Greece, not Idaho, when he realized the water his body displaced in the bathtub was the result
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They’re Gross but Entertaining By Marylyn Cork It’s daylight and here they come, racing pell-mell down the mountainside, tumbling over themselves in their haste. Across the county road, up to the top rail of the yard’s fence. These
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An Idaho Colloquialism By Steve Carr If you’ve lived in Idaho more than a few years, chances are you’ve heard a discussion about what those ditches that run along the side of our county roads are called. I
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You Look Unreal By Steve Carr If you don’t mind me asking, who decorated your fake tree?” he said as he slurped his eggnog and grabbed four snowman sugar cookies, leaving but a few disembodied arms and legs
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For a Day of Giving Thanks By Marylyn Cork Over the river and through the woods . . . The opening line of that old Thanksgiving poem pops into my head every time I think of the holiday
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By Steve Carr For those of us who live and work in eastern Idaho and are not affiliated with the Idaho National Laboratory, what happens there (despite their claims of being an open book) has always been a
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A Summer Hazard By Marylyn Cork I got drilled by a yellow jacket the other evening—actually, a paper wasp, according to the people who know such things. To me, the two species look identical. I would have thought
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