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School doesn't start until September 6th, and fall isn't supposed to officially arrive until September 23rd this year. But everything after the end of Sandpoint's summer music festival seems like the denouement of the season in Sandpoint. We even had a spot of rain yesterday.
The iconic big tent is already down, rolled up and stored until next August. Smaller tents remain, along with huge collections of chairs, boxes, hoses, cables, coolers, dollies, tables, and garbage cans.
But no garbage. The festival's impressive and activist all-volunteer Green Team has seen to that. Read more The family I grew up in was very particular about how a slice of a round cake was to lie on a plate. It was supposed to be positioned so that you could eat it from the inside out and from the bottom up. For all of us right-handers, this meant the frosting had to be to the left. A piece of cake with the frosting on the right was said to be "flopped wrong."
This attention to direction has come to mind recently, as the citizens of Sandpoint have debated about whether the fish on their newly installed Sand Creek arch are flopped correctly. I thought the shiny metal back sides of the signs would all be on one side of the arch, so we would have shiny metal fish on one side and colorful fish on the other. Instead, the fish appear to have been more randomly flopped. Read more It's evident that a lot happened around here 100 years ago. We celebrated the centennial of Sandpoint's founding a few years back, and shortly after that we celebrated the centennial of the long bridge that crosses Lake Pend Oreille to reach us. Kootenai and Bayview both celebrated centennials last year, as did the East Bonner County Library, and we also remembered--although we could hardly be said to have celebrated--the centennial of the great fires of 1910.
On the weekend of July 4, we reached the centennial of the incorporation of Clark Fork, a village of some five or six hundred souls clinging to the upper inner edge of Idaho, just a few miles short of the Montana line. Read moreIt's the End of the Festival--But the Garbage Keeps on Going
The Great Sandpoint Fish Flop Flap
Clark Fork Officially Turns 100
