Down on the Farm By Diana Hooley My husband and I drink our morning coffee in a nook surrounded by large windows that face the Snake River. We see the sun rise over the river: the dreary winter
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 Hermit in the Outhouse By Carver Stellmon I left Lewiston around four-thirty in the afternoon on Memorial Day 2010 after a weekend spent watching college baseball. By nine at night, I was parked in Knife Edge Campground
The Cook Creek Ridge Fire By Robert W. Sisk In the following excerpt from the new book Rampage by Firestorm, helitack crew pilot Robert Sisk describes a harrowing wildfire battle near Garden Valley. The excerpt is preceded by
By Amy Story Southwest Chicken Pasta INGREDIENTS ½ lb. penne pasta 1 lb. chicken breasts, cut into 1″ strips 1 (15 oz.) can diced tomatoes 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 ½ c. cheddar cheese, shredded 1 cup
Art Spaugy, Student Athlete By Brant Short Photos courtesy of Brant Short In our family, the story of Arthur E. Spaugy was told and retold, as all good legends are, so I knew of his sporting achievements at
“Cathedral Thinking” in Practice By Theresa Shaffer For years, when I stood on our property high above Cougar Bay on Lake Coeur d’Alene to observe osprey and sometimes a bald eagle as they soared above the shimmering water,
The End of an Error By Ron McFarland Sometime in the 1980s, my fellow poet and friend Dennis Held, a Wisconsinite born to ice-fishing, introduced me to the frigid aspects of angling through the ice [see “Ice versus
Canine Social Media Story and Photos by Mary Terra-Berns As soon as my dogs and I are out the door every day, usually before the sun is up, their noses are a nanometer off the ground, analyzing what
No Way but Up Story and Photos by Ray Brooks My friend Mike Paine was not a patient man. In 1981, when Alpine Club climbers from Washington State University blocked access to the usual start up the Three
