Before our Time: Sawmills were common in the forest …
Between 1875 and 1900 loggers and sawmills were the dominant human activity in the San Jacinto Mountains. They appeared first on Indian Creek in...
Before Our Time: Saunders Meadow was more than a road to the transfer...
Saunders Meadow has supported educational programs for the past 70 years, but its varied history reaches back far earlier than the 1940s. Thanks in...
Before Our Time: Photographers record history …
Fortunately for present and future Idyllwild residents, much of the Hill’s history is preserved in photographs.
We’ve seen more than our share of outstanding...
Before Out Time: Churches eventually become part of Idyllwild …
Amid a profusion of religious ceremony during the Christmas season, it may come as a surprise that throughout its first half-century, Idyllwild had not...
Before our Time: Nostalgic for snow storms?
When snow is as scarce as it’s been for the past 20 months, long-time Hill residents begin to pine for those old-time storms, “when...
Before Our Time: Drought is nothing new here …
“O, sunset land! O, sunset land!
As on thy highest mount I stand,
I look away across the plain,
And wonder will it ever rain.”
Thus did J.P....
Before Our Time: Idyllwild’s early winters …
The only sustained effort to create a ski resort here in Strawberry Valley began immediately after World War II. In 1946, Jules Berkeley of...
Before Our Time: Before Kwikset came
You can’t commute from Fern Valley or walk about town these mild summer mornings for very long without noticing the seemingly abandoned scatter of...
Before our Time: Electricity on the Hill — fragile …
The recent power outages due to high winds or scheduled maintenance should remind us, even today, not to take the centralized electrical grid for...
Before Our Time: The Chef in the Forest …
A Minnesota reader, fondly recalling childhood vacations here, recently sparked my curiosity about one of Idyllwild’s more outlandish characters. In January 1966, Warren Jacober...