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: Idyllwild furniture …
Between 1925 and 1960, Idyllwild became widely known as a center for the manufacture of craftsman-style furniture.
Hal Holcomb, “the Rustic Man,” started it...
Before Our Time: Immigrant helps preserve the mountain …
After I mentioned the George Thomas Cedar last month, a reader asked about another local landmark, the A.C. Lovekin Cedar. Though not so old...
Before Our Time: The endless discoveries of history …
Like peeling an onion, the work of reconstructing history seems never to end. New tidbits appear serendipitously and constantly.
Let me close the year...
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: By Robert B. Smith
With Avery Field’s photography, others saw Idyllwild …
Picture postcards are an ever-popular item in scenic areas such as Idyllwild. We certainly have had our...
Before Our Time: A memorable time: 1946-2016 — 70 years …
2016 marks the 70th anniversary of the most extraordinary year in Idyllwild’s history. 1946 saw the birth of such landmark institutions as the Town...
Before Our Time: Lakes on the Hill …
The absence of a local lake has helped shape Idyllwild’s lasting character, a fact for which many Hill residents are grateful. But as with...
Before Our Time: Idyllwild’s “Name game” …
An old tradition my forebears brought from Britain is the habit of bestowing names on their homes. It reached Idyllwild in the 1920s to...
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...