A Lady and a Flapper By Aisha Marie Photos Courtesy of Aisha Marie When I was very young, my mother would sometimes drop me off to spend a night at Grandma Bailey’s house in Lane, which is on
And What It Means to Us By Donna Jorgensen Rookstool Photos Courtesy of the Rookstool Family It’s just a small strip of land, less than an acre, which slopes down towards the shore of Cascade Lake near Donnelly.
Sounds Good to Me By Tom Lopez As a child, I received many Christmas cards from Idaho at our home in Michigan. The first one I can date with any certainty, which arrived when I was eight years
Life and Death in Downey By Lynne Larson “So you’re from Idaho.” The old gentleman next to me struck up the conversation as we waited for a church meeting to begin in the large western city where I
Fire in the Foothills Story and Photos by Richard Mouser It started out a normal Wednesday afternoon at my family’s house last October. I was shoveling bark and laying it onto garden beds when my mother stepped outside.
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
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
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
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
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
