Ethan Schlussler captured this image through multiple exposures of his treehouse – the one with the humanpowered bicycle elevator. SEE STORY, PAGE 33
editor’s note Think being a magazine editor is glamorous? Not when you work until 4 a.m. peering at the computer screen through bleary eyes – in sweatpants. No, that’s not glamorous. The best part of my job is meeting people I wouldn’t otherwise normally meet, like Ethan Schlussler. This talented young man built a treehouse with a bicycle elevator. Yep, a bicycle, and he let me ride it up and down – thrilling but still not glamorous. This issue has so much good editorial, I feel giddy just writing about it: Carrie Scozzaro and Doug Marshall following famed Great Depression photographer, Dorothea Lange; those ubiquitous trains filling a huge cover story package; Sir Edmund Hillary pictured in history; the Pacific Northwest Trail in our neck of the woods; Quest and its way-cool KODIAK. And much more, as the boss likes to say. But, here’s a challenge and a little contest a la “Where’s Waldo.” I slipped my dog, Beau, a North Idaho hound terrier, as I refer to him, in a photo herein. First one to tell me where gets a prize, a night in my camping cabin (when that Ethan guy finishes it). –B.J.G. Sandpoint Magazine is published twice yearly, in May and November, by Keokee Co. Publishing, Inc., 405 Church St., Sandpoint, ID 83864. Phone: 208-263-3573 E-mail: inbox@keokee.com Publisher Chris Bessler Editor Billie Jean Gerke Assistant Editor Beth Hawkins Advertising Director Clint Nicholson
8
SANDPOINT MAGAZINE
003-032_SMS14.indd 8
CONTRIBUTORS Terri Casey Myers is a snowbird who sum-
mers in Hope and winters in Florida. It was love at first sight with Lake Pend Oreille the first time she drove over the Long Bridge in summer 1981 and decided to settle in Sandpoint. She wrote for The Spokesman-Review and then moved to Seattle and worked for Microsoft before coming back to town in 1999. Myers has lived in a few locations on the lake and writes here about her recent relationship with it in “When a Lake is More than a Lake,” page 138.
Molly Rivkin, who was recently evacuated from
Ukraine, contributed to this issue by accident. Forced to leave her Peace Corps assignment, she had been back in northern Idaho for less than a week when she went to Schweitzer. While riding the backside, she caught a chair with a “kind, interesting gentleman” – who happened to be this magazine’s publisher, Chris Bessler. Rivkin, an aspiring writer, was asked to share her story in “Ukraine
Leaves Lasting Impression on Teacher,” page 10.
Carrie Scozzaro,
a full-time art teacher, loves the educational aspect of writing. For this issue, she learned what makes Sandpoint artist Karen Robinson so unique; find out in “Knowing Nature,” page 45. And she capped a year’s research on photographer Dorothea Lange by visiting with some of the descendants of Lange’s 1939 Priest River Peninsula images; see “In the Footsteps of Dorothea Lange,” page 76. When she’s not writing or teaching, Scozzaro can be found in the garden or art studio. Art Director Laura Wahl Ad Design/Production Jackie Palmer, Katie Kosaya Office Manager Beth Acker Contributors Sandy Compton, Susan Drinkard, Zach Hagadone, Cate Huisman, Oriana Korol, Jennifer Lamont Leo, Terri Myers, Molly Rivkin, Carrie Scozzaro, Kevin Taylor, Aaron Theisen and Amie Wolf
©2014 by Keokee Co. Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Subscriptions: $12 per year, payable in advance. Send address changes to the address above. Visit our web magazine published at www.SandpointMagazine.com. Printed in USA by Century Publishing, Post Falls, Idaho.
SUMMER 2014
5/6/14 3:47 PM