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Idaho Film Studios at Bryans Run

Author: Author: Doug Copsey

The story of filmmaking in Idaho is sketchy at best.  Its beginnings date back to the early 1920s, when silent film star and pioneer independent filmmaker Nell Shipman left Hollywood and built a film camp on the eastern shores of Priest lake in northern idaho...

Canyon County Housing Boom

Author: Author: Stephen Lowman

Unless you just arrived, or have been living under a rock (not likely with the reasonable housing prices), you know Canyon County is one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. People continue to find the area’s climate, affordability and job opportunities hard to resist, and the residential boom has been the catalyst for demographic, economic and lifestyle transformations. The strong housing market has permanently altered Canyon County...

From Shelter to Showcase: America’s Love Affair with the Log Cabin

Author: Author: Grove Koger

Among the small cluster of ideas and images that we Americans share, none is as potent as the log cabin. It signifies foursquare tradition, a combination of honesty and humility that in the abstract at least we all crave. It conjures up visions of the young Abraham Lincoln and the old folks at home. Set an apple pie to cooling on the window sill and we’re ready to move in...

Mushroom Hunting in McCall

Author: Author: Karen Ketchu

If the first wildflowers have reared their dainty little heads, and enough wet and warm days have passed, some of the best tasting fungi in the entire world are about to explode like popcorn out of the ground...

Handmade and Homespun

Author: Author: Doug Copsey

By the time Boise High grad Kevin Gray moved back to Idaho in 1973, a few years of ski bunning in Colorado and New Mexico had instilled in him a strong back-to-the land ethic.  So he found 10 acres of secluded land in the mountains north of Council and settled into the self-sufficient lifestyle, that included building his wife and two daughters a house, from scratch, with no construction experience whatsoever...

Form and Function Pas de Deux

Author: Author: Cheryl Haas

When Steve and Cindy Jones built their understated and subtly elegant home in Jug Mountain Ranch, there was no struggle between form and function...

Evening Rise Bakery

Author: Author: Alice Scully

The light is streaming out the open door and I can hear rock & roll music in the early dawn as I arrive at Evening Rise Bakery in McCall. I am here to watch bread being made. It is 6:00 a.m.

One might think the name Evening Rise comes from the bakery’s location on Sunset Street, or perhaps because bread is often rising within. Not so. Owners Bill and Corey McDonald choose the name because they love fly-fishing...

20 Ways to Apres!

Author: Author: Jody Orr

So you've skied, boarded, snowshoed and/or skated your legs off all day long but you're simply not ready to head back to the condo for some shuteye.  No problem.  We've come up with 20 different ways to have fun whether you're in McCall, Donnelly, Cascade or New Meadows...

Out of Bounds

Author: Author: Amanda Peacher

Guided ski trips, a great introduction to the winter backcountry...

Port and a Good Cigar

Author: Author: Christie Gorsline

Musky aroma-therapy, relaxation, or self-indulgence - whatever you call it, the pleasure of a dark port, sweet cognac, or golden scotch swirled in a glass in one hand and a fragrant cigar in the other, is the essence of a bourgeois art form...

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