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A Miraculous Birth

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High on the Mountainside By Marylyn Cork Autumn is here. The short northern summer has slipped by with very little of the heat, fire, and smoke many of us had feared. The only blaze of any consequence was
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Where Greats Gather

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Idaho Veterans Bring the Passion By Sue Paul with Amaura Mitchell Photos by Amaura Mitchell Todd Carlson is one of many speakers we’ve had at the Kilroy Coffee Klatch, a group that has gathered monthly since 2001 at
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The Cold War in Idaho

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Uncle Sam Calls a Six-Year-Old By Ed Marohn Photos courtesy of Ed Marohn I stared at the framed certificate hanging on the wall with the other mounted items in my office—a sunny windowed room in our empty-nester home
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Hunts from Paradise

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A Tradition of Decades Compiled by Pat Drain From the late-1930s into the early-1960s, three Gooding families made regular hunting excursions, often together, into the mountains around the Selway River. In 1964, this region became part of the
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Cake on a Bottle

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A Young Farmwife Confronts Cooking By Diana Hooley Before I married an Idaho farmer, I could bake a potato but couldn’t make potato salad, or funeral potatoes, or potato cakes (which sounded a lot like dessert to me).
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Pigs in Harness

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Who Was the Wag Named Arthur Brissette? Photos courtesy of Ralph Allen When a Boise couple dropped by IDAHO magazine’s office recently, the topic came up of the quirky pig postcards on these pages. Ralph Allen mentioned he
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Sounds

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The Chords of Memory By Les Tanner It’s a little after 3:00 a.m. in the spring of 2015 and here I am again in my nightly contemplation mode at home in Caldwell, lying on my back, hands behind
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Dinner Bell

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A Call to Yesteryear By Julie Conrad Photos courtesy of Julie Conrad Smelling the sweet scent of overripe huckleberries, I ditch my car and walk along the lane where our old cabin still stands, although our family doesn’t
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Handing Down the Guns

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The Firearm As Tool By Dwight Sutton In the years of this story, from 1910 to 1950, in Arco and elsewhere in Idaho, guns and shooting were part of our everyday life. Not a large part, but nonetheless
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