The Other Warrior Story and Photos by Melinda Stiles When I moved to Idaho twenty years ago, I found paradise up a creek in a rental trailer with a jaw-dropping view of the Continental Divide. As if paradise
Ed Duren’s Hall of Fame Career By Bill Corbett When I first saw Edward Paul Duren sitting at his desk in the University of Idaho’s Caribou County Agricultural Extension Office, my initial thought was, “I didn’t know the
An Encounter with James Castle, Master of Found Materials Art By Teddy Khteian-Keeton In January 1963, before the first Idaho exhibition of work by James Castle, I was publicity chairman of the Boise Gallery of Art (now the
A Student Learns about Sacrifice By Josh White Photos courtesy of Josh White I never thought history could become real. Yet through honoring a fallen World War II soldier from Idaho and delivering a eulogy at his grave,
An Aerial Firefighter Arrives By Mike Kincaid Flying seaplanes in northern Idaho is fun, and part of that fun is meeting other pilots. A pilot with one of the coolest jobs I’ve met in Idaho is aerial firefighter
Another Day at the Ourada Ranch Story and Photos by Amy Story Larson Return visits, when you feel welcomed enough at a place to go back, are the best. My SUV rolled past Dry Creek Cemetery and through
A Transgender Woman Describes Her Struggle By Sophia A. Franklin Three years ago, a young man with a sweet face and curly hair sat next to me in a Boise bar. We were mere acquaintances at the time
The Ground Squirrel’s Scourge Story and Photos by F.A. Loomis I recall my grandfather, a founder of a farm cooperative in Valley County called the Gold Fork Irrigation Company and a ditch rider in the 1920s, telling me
A Defender of the Wild By John Davidson I met Stacy Gebhards in the summer of 1981, when his daughter, Sandy, and I worked together at a small pub in Old Boise. I’d been invited on a float
Homage to a Medical Couple By F.A. Loomis A dog-eared supply of magazines (Good Housekeeping, Boy’s Life, Saturday Evening Post, Readers’ Digest) decorated a glass coffee table and bookshelves, a gurgling aquarium featured angelfish and goldfish, checkerboard linoleum
