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
In with the Old and New By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey On a clear blue day in the summer of 2018, I peered out the windows of a building in downtown Sandpoint and saw the city for the first time—metaphorically,
And the People of the Little Lost River Valley By Anna Sermon The wind in Howe often blows from the west, as it did on October 18, 2012, when the dance hall-bar-restaurant and the store, storage barn, and
Boom to Bust and Back Again By Mary Terra-Berns On a beautiful sky-blue but slightly blustery day last June, I flew at two thousand seven hundred feet from Coeur d’Alene to Missoula, Montana with my friend LaDonna Beaumont
