Amid Change, Helpfulness By Carver Stellmon The valley lay thick with trees. Entangled willows and choking cottonwoods diffused from the banks of the Boise River to mix with sage and the occasional pine that stretched to a checkerboard
A Salmon River Haven By Alice Schenk Photos courtesy of Alice Schenk The apples were disappearing quickly from the tree outside the kitchen window at the Shoup store and there was only one way to solve the problem.
A Letter to Ourselves By Amy Story IDAHO magazine first featured Nampa as a Spotlight City in our September 2003 issue. More than two decades later, here’s a very personal take on the place. At the end of
It’s Not Preston By Rick Just Photos courtesy of Rick Just An argument can be made that Presto doesn’t qualify for IDAHO magazine’s Spotlight City feature, because it was never a town. Yet over the more than two
A Big Kitty in the Core Story and Photos by Mary Terra-Berns IDAHO magazine first featured Coeur d’Alene as a Spotlight City in our February 2004 issue. We figured it was time for a revisit. A few years
Abundant Water in the Desert By Trish Petersen My husband Justin is a lifelong Mud Laker and when we were married in 1994, I swore I would never live in such a forsaken desert of sagebrush and jackrabbits.
Under the Big-Shouldered Mountains By Kathy Corgatelli-NeVille When I was growing up in the Big Lost River Valley in the 1950s-‘60s, sometimes just breathing deep outdoors in winter could take my breath away. Overnight lows often dipped to
More Than It Seems By Emily Bonsant As I drive east on U.S. Route 2 towards Montana, I approach an “Entering City Limits” sign that says 712 people live in Moyie Springs, commonly called “Moyie.” But through the
A Niche in the Sun Story and Photos by Eloise Kraemer The drive along Yellowstone Avenue, which skirts the southern boundary of Silverton, brings up vivid memories from my childhood of the walk west along an abandoned portion
Loggers at Loggerheads By George Currier Back in October 2002, IDAHO magazine published a Spotlight City feature on the northern town of St. Maries. This revisit includes the author’s take on a seminal loggers’ strike of the early
