Read your history to understand the present
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
For those disposed to intellectual exploration in a time of national emotional havoc, a recent Reader issue offered a timely recommendation: read, or re-read, William …
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Days of Auld Lang Syne
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
After Scottish bard Robert Burns, borrowing words and sentiments from others before him, wrote “Auld Lang Syne” in 1788 it became, after “Happy Birthday,” the …
Sandpoint’s secret sister: Moab, Utah
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Not every Reader reader knows that Nelson, B.C., is Sandpoint’s sister city. Or that Yalta, Crimea, where FDR, Churchill and Stalin divided up the post-war …
Pine Cone Memories
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
I revere pine cones. Our Selle Valley property has almost as many pine cones as ant hills have ants. I prefer dead tree limbs to …
Fifteen years ago and still reeling
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Fifteen years ago on Sept. 11, America was yanked into the real world.
As a modern nation we’d been jolted before. Bloody labor strikes and …
This is the place
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
My 1957 bride and I twice lived in Geneseo, Ill., a prosperous farm town of 7,000 joyful souls in Henry County, “Hog Capital Of The …
Not all billionaires are bad dudes
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
A longtime friend, a California Republican—as I was back when the Grand Old Party was an organization of pride rather than impropriety and prejudice—was bitching …
Sing, sing, sing
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
I have written before about when, with fellow USAF draft dodgers in Georgia and later with jolly collegians in California, we harmonized our way through …
‘It was the best of times’ said Charles Dickens
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
If one is about to salute a decade, as we are about to in Sandpoint, one could do no better than to celebrate the 1950’s. …
Laddies of the Day, revisited
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
“Be careful what you wish for” thought Ben Franklin as he flew his kite into a hot overhead electric line.Thought Julius Caesar over the Cobb …
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