The Big and Small of It By Dean Worbois Was it a big town or a small city? I was raised in both, choosing my environment by what I was looking for at the time. It was the 1940s, ’50s … Continue reading
The Best of Present and Past Story and Photos by Eloise Kraemer It stormed yesterday. The winter snow came down in huge flakes like chunks of white paper confetti covering the pines in an elegant dress. Today I awoke to … Continue reading
A Town That Wouldn’t Die By Janelle Dallolio When I first moved to Heyburn in 1985, I was twenty-five, about to deliver my second child, and the mother of a spirited eight-year-old boy. We were excited to move into our … Continue reading
A Nick in the Desert By Diana Hooley A strong agricultural state like Idaho has hundreds of little farming communities, but not many can lay claim to two significant historic trails running through them. Indian Cove may not have a … Continue reading
A Working Time Machine By Eloise Kraemer The smell of snow is in the air. A brightly colored leaf drifts down to join those already gathered along the bike path under the ghostly silhouettes of deciduous trees spotted among the … Continue reading
Where Heaven and Earth Meet By Jay G. Burrup I remember Downey’s small but impressive Marsh Valley Hospital of orange brick. It was built on North Main Street in the late 1940s by energetic civic leaders, including my grandfather, William … Continue reading
Where “the Kimberly Way” Prevails Story and Photos by Julie Underwood It’s five in the morning, the sun has not quite reached the horizon, and the air is crisp. I’m at the bean warehouse on Main Street in Kimberly, climbing … Continue reading
Through Blizzards and Fires, Standing Together By Bruce Bash They knew it was coming. The blizzard. But it was coming sooner than anyone had expected. The city had endured blizzards before, blizzards that charged into town kicking and screaming and … Continue reading
Deep Down, Good Water, Fine People By Laurie Spratling The water reached Malta before the townspeople were ready. February 2017 was unusual for southern Idaho, with unprecedented amounts of moisture and warmer than average temperatures affecting much of the lower … Continue reading
On the Reservation By Mary-Terra Berns When I came across Plummer in Lalia Boone’s 1985 book, Idaho Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary, I wondered why the early residents of this one-mile-square city in the middle of the Coeur d’Alene Reservation … Continue reading
