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Hollywood Halloween

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Dean Worbois / Comments Off on Hollywood Halloween

A Cinematic Interlude By Dean Worbois During the glory days of Halloween seven decades ago, about the time my sisters and I were cast out to knock on doors without a parent trailing us, our home in Boise
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Butter

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Rick Just / Comments Off on Butter

Thomas Moran Couldn’t Make It By Rick Just Photos Courtesy of Rick Just My family came into Idaho a few weeks after it became a territory. My Great-Grandfather Nels Just was a freighter, a rancher, and Bingham County
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Grandma Morris

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Max Jenkins / Comments Off on Grandma Morris

Pioneer Tough By Max Jenkins In April 1916, after enduring several years of drought in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Grandma and Granddad moved with their four children to Idaho. Grandma’s brothers and sisters had already purchased train tickets to
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The Long Road Back

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Miranda R. Carter / Comments Off on The Long Road Back

In the Fold of Midnight Stars By Miranda R. Carter My grandfather gave us the northern Idaho wilderness. He gave it to us in all its forms: vast populations of pines fleshing out rich, rolling hillsides; ribbons of
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Return

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Glenn Theberge / Comments Off on Return

This Time for Good Story and Photos by Glenn Theberge In June 1970, my seventeen-year-old wife Cathy and I visited Mountain Home to see her uncle, who was stationed at the airbase. Our drive from Massachusetts across the
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Surprise Help

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Brittney Eggleston / Comments Off on Surprise Help

A Small Hand Proffered By Brittney Eggleston Photos by Karl Eggleston Sun shining, a breeze caressing my neck. Not a cloud in the sky on this July day in 2020, and we were able to get an early
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Drifter

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Carmen Magart / Comments Off on Drifter

The Sorry Saga of Great-Uncle Darrell By Carmen Magart By the time you’ve achieved a ripe old sixty, there’s usually a long list of characters who’ve played special parts in your life. Some of the actors along the
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The Twelve Daze

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Alice Schenk / Comments Off on The Twelve Daze

Stunned by Gifts and the Giving Story and Photos by Alice Schenk “Dad, Mom, there are some big birds out on the front lawn,” one of the Gentry children said to her parents on the sixth day of
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On Old Hill Road

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Richard Mouser / Comments Off on On Old Hill Road

Endangered Family Farms Stick Together Story and Photos by Richard Mouser In 2005, my family made the decision to move away from the suburban neighborhoods of Eagle and buy an old home in the outskirts of Boise, on
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House for Seven

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Bren Slade / Comments Off on House for Seven

A Place of Light and Hope Story and Photos by Bren Slade The light was dim inside the ambulance. My daughter lay breathing but unresponsive. Were there windows? I don’t remember. It was Christmas Eve.  Five months earlier,
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