Not Your Normal Neighbor Story and photos by Gary Brown Is it the alligator or maybe the multiple pythons hanging around that cause me to put my neighbor Corbin Maxey and his wife Sam at the top of
The Plot Arises for a Stirring Novel By Lorie Palmer When my editor at the Idaho County Free Press told me that Emily Ruskovich’s parents lived in Grangeville, I went into geek mode. “The author of Idaho? Her
Young, Ambitious, and Intending to Stay Married By Jack Greaves Photos Courtesy of Matt Gooch Matt Gooch walks into the Crossroads at BYU–Idaho in Rexburg and immediately starts bouncing from table to table, chatting with everyone whose face
A Citizen of Soldier By Diana Hooley I’m glad there was enough snow in December for Soldier Mountain Ski Area to open. Brundage in McCall, Bogus Basin in Boise, and the Sun Valley Resort are all great if
Toussaint Mesplie, Idaho Pioneer By John J. O’Hagan In 1862, gold was discovered in the Boise Basin. Thousands of miners—many of them Irish Catholic—left the pretty much depleted California goldfields and settled in Idaho. Bishop Blanchett of Oregon
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
