The Friends of Boundary County Historic Places has launched a new website to encourage everyone interested in helping to encourage the protection and proper use of the historical sites in Boundary County that connect us to our past and point us to the future.
The site https://www.bchistoricplaces.org, highlights the sites they work on and contribute to to stave off the ravages of time, including the Pearl Theater, Ruby Cabin, Boulder City and the Snyder Guard Station, which will be the site of an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3.
If you don’t feel like driving, a SPOT bus will leave the Boundary County Fairgrounds at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 3 for Snyder Ranger Station, which is ADA compliant. The bus will stay for about an hour, then return to the Fairgrounds. Please RSVP Pat Hart, hartpathart@gmail.com, by 4 p.m. Friday, May 2, so they know what size bus is needed.
If you don’t feel like driving, a SPOT bus will leave the Boundary County Fairgrounds at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 3, for Snyder Ranger Station, which is ADA compliant. The bus will stay for about an hour, then return to the Fairgrounds. Please RSVP Pat Hart, hartpathart@gmail.com, by 4 p.m. Friday, May 2, so they know what size bus is needed.
The site also has a page just for the historian/storyteller, the very best kind of historian. Whether you write your stories to be read, speak them to be heard, or film that they may be watched … all are welcome.
There’s already a good start, Cal Russell narrating the stories of Rocky Cartwright, Forest Service legend Pat Hart writing of Maxine, a brash but big hearted Safeway checker who saved she and her hippy friends from a chicken and generic beer dinner in a far from finished house on her first Bonners Ferry Thanksgiving 53 years ago … but it’s just a start — click here to find out about adding yours.
To learn more about The Friends of Boundary County Historic Places, click here, or email hartpathart@gmail.com.
