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2016.9.1 - StoryCorps
StoryCorps interview with Damon Runberg and his grandmother Jeanne (McAlexander) Tomlin. It includes Tomlin's early memories of staying at Sherwood Beach in the late 1930s and her parents acquiring a cabin in Coolin in 1959.
Record Type: Archive
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2017.1.1 - Forest Fire - Sundance
Scan of report created by the USFS investigation the dealth of two firefighter in theSundance Fire of 1967 . The report includes coorespondance, a general narrative, maps, photographs, statements, weather reports, death certificates, and training certificates. Contains useful material about the fire in general with the focus on the USFS.
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2017.1.14 - Manuscript
Building with Logs book, paper cover that had three staples for a binding. Written by Clyde P. Fickes and W. Ellis Groben. Fickes was the architect for the Luby Bay cabin. Staples removed and mold damage on the front cover.
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2017.13 - StoryCorps
Interview with Mike Jones by his son Kyle Jones. Included were his connection to his grandparents Jim and Marge Roberts, the Leonard Paul Store, Coolin community, Sundance fire, hike with his father, Hank Jones. Kyle talks about the importance of place, family and community.
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2017.2 - StoryCorps
Interview with Tom Weitz and his daughter Sarah. Tom's family vacationed at Luby Bay Resort and then Hill's. His father bought a cabin on Kalispell Island with a terminal 15 year lease. The cabin today is the host cabin on the island. Later his father bought a cabin next to Kalispell Creek. He met this wife Anne at the lake.
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2017.5.1 - StoryCorps
StoryCorps interview between Mike Rydbom and his wife Carol. Carol's family first came to the lake because her father insured the Leonard Paul Store. Her family and her cousins spent two weeks a year at Hill's. Mike's family bought a cabin from a Spokane contractor on Kalispell Bay. They came to look at it in the middle of the winter. Mike and the neighbor boys spent summers exploring the bay. Carol and Mike met at Eastern Washington. They...
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2017.9.1 - StoryCorps
StoryCorps with Ron Walker and his grandson Max Kendall. Walker bought a lot in Outlet Resort in 1970 and did a lot of work on it and on the resort itself. He wrote a history of Outlet in 2000.
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2018.3.2 - StoryCorps
Dr. Robert Bond was interviewed by his wife Georgean at the cabin at the end of the Coolin Bay. His father bought a doctor's practice in Priest River in 1936. He stayed for 10 years and spent a lot of time at Priest Lake. They first stayed at Handy's Resorts on Sherwood Bay and playing on the beach is Bob's first memory of the lake. His dad built a cabin on Steamboat Bay. He later sold it and bought a lot at the far end of Coolin Bay. One ...
Record Type: Archive
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2019.2.10 - Real Estate Development - Diamond Park
Abstract for Diamond Park lot
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2019.2.11 - Real Estate Development - Diamond Park
List of lots offered to sale August 18, 1958
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2019.2.12 - StoryCorps
Earle Ruddach and his wife Judy shared stories about their family time at Priest Lake. Earle's family from Newport acquired a state lot at Cape Horn about 1950. They built their cabin by moving materials from Elkins on a WWII surplus rubber raft.. When Diamond Match decided to sell off land north of the Narrows, Earle's family bought two lots in Diamond Park for a $1,000 each. They built their own cabin and Earle remembered the lake as a plac...
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2019.2.9 - Real Estate Development - Diamond Park
Blueprint of Diamond Park Subdivision and cover letter from Northern Lights about an easement.
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2020.1.1 - StoryCorps
Donald Frick jumped at the chance to get out of Cleveland and work in the west during the summer of 1953 when he was 18. A truck took him and a crew of about 32 young men from Priest River to Hughes Meadow. From there, they hike over the ridge and down into the Upper Priest River basin at Rock Creek. For three month, Don followed his "lane" marked with string up the mountain side removing Gooseberry Ribes. He recalled, "It was one of the best...
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2020.16 - StoryCorps
Ron and Pat Hardin discussed their time at Outlet Bay, the Memory Garden, the Coolin Parade, and Pat's year at Priest Lake Elementary School and living in the Lamb Creek School Teacherage. They shared three photographs.
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2020.16.1 - StoryCorps
Pat Hardin's first teaching job was at Priest Lake Elementary School in 1972. She lived in the Lamb Creek School teacherage and found it to be lonely. She enjoyed the students but like most teachers at Priest Lake, lasted only a year. Forward in time, she married Ron Hardin and they won a weekend stay at the Outlet Bay Resort. They soon acquired a trailer there and became part of the resort's community. They have been involved in the Coolin ...
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2020.7.8 - CCC - F 102 Kalispell Creek
Copy of Joseph Barbato's Record of Service in the CCC in 1938. It includes his work as a forestry sawyer and axe man. He also worked in blister rust control.
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2022.4.1 - Oral History
Oral History of Frank Hungate by Arley Sue Hagman and Tom Weitz
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2022.5.2 - People-B
Resume for Robert Beaubier who worked on the Kaniksu Forest in the 1930s
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2024.1.1 - Book
written by Nell Shipman illustrated by Elizabeth Ellender children's book A fairy story set in the woods with the beautiful princess forced to undergo perilous adventures, but befriended always by tiny Kurly Kew, the good hearted dog Wogg, the terrifying witch Mylyth, and, of course, at last united to the Prince and living happily ever after. Dust cover is a copy.
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