Quiet and Busy All the Time Story and Photos by Lorie Palmer Russell I have never understood how people can be bored in a small town. In Grangeville, which has a population of about 3,300, our family always
A Mining Town Remade By Mike Blackbird The story of my hometown, Kellogg, is one of redemption. When I stand today at the condominiums in town where the longest gondola in the Western Hemisphere begins its 3.5-mile journey
A Town with Five Names By Dana Lohrey When I was growing up in Clearwater in the 1950s and 1960s, the small community of Harpster, about seven miles northeast of us, always seemed to me like an extension
Not for Passing Through By Alice Elison My husband’s grandmother, Nettie Mae Turpin Ellis, who grew up in Thomas, was the first person I met on his side of the family after we were engaged, and she didn’t
Once a Mining Camp By Dana Lohrey Dana, it’s Ivan Ruark. I’m wondering if you’ll be able to come play piano for us again in Dixie this New Year’s.” “Sure, I’d love to,” I said. “Great. I’ll meet
A Lifelong Resident Recounts the Changes By Linda Helms After a great farming year for our family in 1952, we got a brand-new car from the dealer in Jerome. We also bought a set of encyclopedias to put
Diversity in a Small Package By Emily Miller We rolled into Rexburg with two giant moving vans in the middle of February 2019. The previous owners of our new home had left a couple weeks earlier, giving the
A Theatrical Town By Dorothy Drake When my husband Jim and I made an exploratory trip to Glenns Ferry in late 2018, our impression was of a time-worn town, run down in some places—yet as we drove around,
The Quintessence of Rugged Individualism By Tom Lopez IDAHO magazine published a Spotlight City feature on Salmon in our November 2002 issue. Now, almost two decades later, here’s a second profile of the town. I was an interloper
On the River’s Far Side By Alice Elison Speeding east along Highway 39 in the early hours of Sunday, June 17, 1979, we entered Rockford, which was fewer than fifteen minutes to our final destination of Blackfoot. My
