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Solitaries Choosing to Go It Alone in Salmon River Country By Cheryl Haas
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Monarchs in Peril Idaho’s state insect faces environmental challenges on many fronts. By Sharon Fisher
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North Fork Championship competitor Aniol Serrasolses, 2018 champion, taken during the 2017 races. Photo by Jasper Gibson
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CONTRIBUTORS Kira Tenney is a freelance writer and International Conservation
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and Development master’s degree candidate at the University of Montana. The focus of her work is maximizing the benefits of whitewater ecotourism for local communities, river conservation, and the empowerment of women. Kira, who also continues to teach kayaking, skiing, and yoga, is hard to pin down, but she always circles back to a place she considers to be one of the best in the world, and that’s home sweet Idaho.
publisher/editor in chief Laurie C. Sammis
(“Fear Factor,” page 22)
guest art director Kristina Mitchell
Patti Murphy is an award-winning writer who has covered
advertising sales Alicia Cachuela Kelly Mitchell
topics from architecture to wildlife; crime to travel; food, history, pets and more. She comes from a long family line of journalists and writers, and luckily inherited the helpful gene of being keenly inquisitive about the world around her. Born and raised in the tropics of Miami, Patti moved to the desert of Phoenix, and then settled in Boise in 1997. She now enjoys traveling and hanging with family that includes her spouse, two dogs and two cats. She happily writes from her home office situated perfectly between the amazing Boise Foothills, beautiful Boise River, and dynamic downtown.
managing editor Adam C. Tanous creative director Roberta Morcone
marketing and distribution Julia Larsen controller Linda Murphy circulation director Nancy Whitehead
(“Addressing Childhood Trauma,” page 16; “Neighborhoods: The Highlands,” page 20)
Cheryl Haas is a writer and voiceover artist who loves the mountains and once dreamed of being the “cranky caretaker of Chamberlain Basin.” Now, she negotiates traffic gridlock in Boise, hikes the hills with her dog, and relishes the opportunity to share the stories of the many interesting people she has met along the way.
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(“Solitaries,” page 28; “An Intimate Musical Experience,” page 50; “Surel’s Place,” page 52)
Dayne Johnson has a knack for following his passion for
adventure, films, and photography. He has lived on a sailboat in Seattle, Wash.; worked in Hawaii on the TV series “Lost; and is one of the official photographers for the 2019 North Fork World Kayak Championship. Dayne is the founder of Red Fish Total Media Group and lives in Eagle, Idaho. No matter where he lives, he enjoys freediving, fly fishing, and searching for elusive wildlife. (“Among the Grizzlies,” page 46; “Traveling the Globe in the Treasure Valley,” page 54)
also in this issue... contributing writers
Torrie Cope, Sharon Fisher, Jamie Hausman, and Emilee Mae Struss.
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EDITOR'S LETTER Who doesn’t remember that feeling when the final bell of the final school day rang through the June air? Now that was the rush of pure freedom. The joy of schoolchildren set loose for the summer is uncontainable. And, it is infectious. It makes everyone around them want to skip out on work, hit the trails, rivers, outdoor concerts, art exhibits, and farmers’ markets. In this summer issue of Territory, we highlight the varied ways Boiseans celebrate life in the Gem State. For one, many take to the rivers, all 107,651 miles of them in Idaho. Want to witness some of the best kayakers in the world racing through some of the most difficult whitewater in the world? Check out the North Fork Championship held each summer on the North Fork of the Payette, a short drive north of the city (“Fear Factor,” page 22). Closer to home is the Boise Whitewater Park, which is expanding and offers changeable play waves for surfers and kayakers (“Second Wave,” page 26). The Salmon Rivers, both the Main and the Middle Fork, flow through the heart of Idaho and provide a watery escape for many Boiseans. They also have rich histories. One particularly curious story is of the loners— characters such as Dugout Dick, Earl Parrott, and Buckskin Bill, among others—who scratched out a living in Salmon River country (“Solitaries,” page 28). In some ways, it is a romantic notion, but, as anyone who has spent time in that wilderness knows, it is not one for the purely romantic.
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Another river outing worth embarking on this summer is to the Barber Pool Conservation Area (“Window Onto the Wild,” page 42). As Jamie Hausman reports, the 425-acre parcel of river, sandy islands, and riparian areas is a haven for bald eagles, mule deer and hundreds of other flora and fauna. For those in pursuit of the more cultural escape, look to our Arts section. There you’ll find a profile of landscape photographer Jeff Callihan (“Among the Grizzlies,” page 46). Callihan’s dogged persistence results in stunning images of the natural world. Writer Cheryl Haas takes a look at the Boise Baroque Orchestra as it moves forward with a new leader, Robert Franz, formerly music director of Boise Philharmonic (“An Intimate Musical Experience,” page 50). Or step into Surel’s Place, an artist-in-residence program in Garden City named for self-taught visual artist Surel Mitchell (“Surel’s Place,” page 52). In our Life section, we profile the Highlands neighborhood, as well as look in to what Idaho Youth Ranch is up to. Kristin Armstrong’s new venture in the fitness world (“Kristin Armstrong’s Second Act,” page 14) and Debi Lane’s remarkable success with her Lunchbox Wax franchises (“Waxing Poetic,” page 12) are highlighed in Metro. In Taste, Emilee Mae Struss digs into Boise’s international cuisine scene. And finally, in a feature story, writer Sharon Fisher writes about the plight of the monarch butterfly, Idaho’s state insect, (“Monarchs in Peril,” page 38). Whatever your summer pursuit, now is the time. The bell just rang. Feel the joy that a 9-year-old feels when summer dawns—open fields, endless days, not a worry in the world.
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Waxing Poetic Debi Lane builds more than a brand with Lunchbox Wax By Jamie Hausman
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very morning, Debi Lane, the founder and CEO of Lunchbox Wax, finds her focus in meditation. She brings the same mindfulness and intention to her business, and with 43 waxing salons and counting, it’s paying dividends. Lane’s path has been full of obstacles. She left home at 14, living on the streets of Salt Lake City. She used her self-described creativity for basic survival and started her first business to travel the world. By 29, she was burned out and enrolled in massage school. It was there she became interested in holistics and began a journey of healing that she continues to practice today. In 1994, Lane relocated to Sun Valley, Idaho, where she found a job in a spa. After a stint as a recruiter in the dot-com industry, she returned to train as an esthetician. She then opened a tiny two-room spa in Ketchum and built a loyal following of high-powered guests and celebrities who vacationed in Sun Valley. In 2008, the economic recession changed the nature of Lane’s bookings at the spa. “When the housing crisis hit was really when I saw a big shift in the spa,” she says. “People weren’t doing the really expensive services. Even people that had money didn’t feel comfortable doing it. That went down and waxing got busier.” At that point, Lane was known for waxing and had spent 17 years in Sun Valley. The speed technique she started to perfect was the result of 10 hours of waxing per day, with her appointments booked solid for months in advance. As TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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her business grew, Lane began looking toward the horizon, searching for a new place where she could flourish outside the constraints of a resort town. As Lane worked to open her first salon in Boise in 2010, she was also working on self-healing. This influenced the way she wanted her waxing salon to be built, from the internal culture to the external brand. “I was doing a lot of work personally, and it showed up in how we were treating the people and the whole guest experience,” Lane says. That authentic connection at Lunchbox Wax begins when guests walk into the salon. Lane has chosen every detail, from the size of the chairs in the lobby to the scent that permeates the space, to ensure a sense of inclusion and authenticity. She combined her speed waxing technique with a cheeky name and logo and a built-from-within culture to set Lunchbox Wax apart as a brand. The success of the store grew by word of mouth, and soon after, a second location opened in Eagle. Lane went on a silent retreat in 2012, something she does
Debi Lane, founder and CEO, Lunchbox Wax
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annually to center her focus. During the eight-day experience, she managed to work through pieces of her past, and the larger purpose for her business revealed itself. She envisioned Lunchbox Wax growing into a company where hundreds of young women make a sizeable income, connect with their community in an authentic way, and feel empowered. She anticipated those waxologists, many of whom don’t have four-year degrees, going out into their communities and making a difference in the world. “After that, I couldn’t put the genie back in the bottle,” Lane says. “I had absolutely no money to go and do this, but somewhere I read that if you want to grow a business without any money, franchising is the way to do it.” Lane sold the first franchise in July 2013 and after some trial and error, Lane built a small group of franchisees with large territories. Now, she has 20 franchise entities who own more than 40 locations. Lunchbox Wax was also named a top 50 new franchise by Entrepreneur in 2018, and The Idaho Business Review selected Lane as a 2019 Woman of the Year. Lane credits her success to the brilliant group of people she works with. Her leadership style is collaborative and intentionally curious. As for the future of Lunchbox Wax, Lane aims to open more than 200 salons by the end of 2019 and to take the company global, opening salons in Canada and London to start. Surely, she will do that with the same intention and culture-based focus with which she began.
LOCAL LUNCHBOXES Debi Lane’s Lunchbox Wax has locations across the country. Visit one of the six in Idaho to experience the culture she has built: Downtown Boise 818 W. Idaho St. West Boise - Meridian 13613 W. McMillan Rd., Suite 110 Nampa 16572 N. Midland Blvd., Suite 130 Sun Valley 680 Sun Valley Rd., Ketchum Twin Falls 1246 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., Suite 2 Idaho Falls 2680 E. Sunnyside Rd., Ammon
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KRISTIN ARMSTRONG'S SECOND ACT The Olympic gold medalist promotes healthy lifestyles with her new gym venture
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ith three Olympic gold medals and multiple national and world championship titles in the sport of cycling, Kristin Armstrong has achieved more than most athletes could ever dream of. Retired from the sport, Armstrong wanted to find something meaningful to do next. It is, after all, hard to top winning an Olympic gold medal. Her focus now has become helping other people of all levels, from elite cyclists chasing their own Olympic dreams, to people who haven’t been to a gym before, achieve their fitness goals, too. “I always want to work, and I want to help people live better lives and make a positive impact,” Armstrong said in a recent interview. Armstrong is preparing to open four new gyms in the next year built around healthy lifestyles. The new gyms, called Pivot, will be spread from Meridian to east Boise. The first is set to open in May, and the fourth will open in spring 2020.
The Ten Mile Crossing location will be the first to open.
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The idea behind Pivot began in August when Armstrong was approached about the possibility of designing a gym to go in new business parks being developed in the area. She said it’s becoming the norm for companies to want fitness centers to be within their business parks so that employees can use them without having to go far. This is a factor companies take into consideration when looking for space to lease. The new gyms are planned for four business parks developed by the firm Ball Ventures Ahlquist. The first to open is at the Ten Mile Road exit of Interstate 84 in Meridian, followed by a downtown Boise location on Myrtle Street near 13th Street in the new Pioneer Crossing development. Two others are planned for Barber Valley in east Boise and at I-84 and Eagle Road in Meridian. Armstrong said the gyms are in locations where they will be convenient for people to get to as the area continues to grow. They’re near office buildings and easy to get to from I-84 as people commute. Reaching more people is also the reason Armstrong is planning to open four locations in the next year, instead of starting with one and waiting to see what happens. “Rather than target one zip code, we wanted to target the Valley,” she said.
Armstrong designed the gyms around her own health and fitness philosophy and what she believes is important for people to think about in terms of their fitness. The Pivot gyms will include cardio and weight areas along with what Armstrong described as boutique-level studios for indoor cycling, yoga, and functional training. “All three of these modalities affected my career and were very important,” she said. The cycling classes are designed and endorsed by Armstrong. Armstrong said yoga and strength training were essential to her training routine as a competitive athlete. When she started experiencing aches and pains, Armstrong turned to yoga, and it had a strong effect on her. Strength training is also something Armstrong said she couldn’t function without while cycling. It became important during her career to make her body as strong as possible when she was on her bike. Pivot memberships will include unlimited access to these classes along with 24/7 access to the cardio and weight areas. In addition, Pivot will have health coaches, registered dieticians and personal trainers. When the gyms open, Armstrong hopes they will cater to a mix of people in different fitness levels. She wants to break down barriers, make people feel comfortable and part of a community when they enter the gym, and make an impact. “I’m putting their goals as high as my goals,” Armstrong said.
Photo: Forester Mitchell
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Photo: Courtesy Kristin Armstrong / Hillary Mayberry
Kristin Armstrong, Olympic gold medalist and cycling world champion, wants to help Boiseans stay fit.
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ADDRESSING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA Idaho Youth Ranch has been helping young Idahoans for 65 years By Patti Murphy
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bout 35 miles west of downtown Boise, at the sprawling 258-acre Hands of Promise Ranch operated by the Idaho Youth Ranch, troubled kids who suffer from emotional and physical childhood trauma and abuse are partnering with horses and therapists to meet head on their lingering emotional scars. Equine assisted psychotherapy is just one of the many unique therapy programs used by the Idaho Youth Ranch to help kids overcome issues of anger, depression, PTSD, anxiety and the other effects of adverse childhood experiences.
Horses, Therapists, and Kids In equine therapy, kids work with a horse on various activities as a way to develop emotional strength, trust, and communication skills. For example a youth might be asked to coax the 2,000-pound animal across the pasture without touching it. “Not being able to have contact with the horse removes a lot of options, but it also forces thought and communication,” said Scott Curtis, CEO of the Idaho Youth Ranch. “Regardless of what happens, that interaction then becomes the basis for therapeutic conversation with their counselor who is with them the whole time. The conversation might focus on what the horse did when the youth stomped his feet, or raised his voice, and how that might relate to the way the youth is
interacting with other people in his or her life. “Kids who have been through the trauma of abuse or neglect often protect themselves by shutting out people who try to reach them, such as counselors and therapists,” Curtis noted. “Horses interact with the youth differently; they don’t judge, and they communicate without words or harshness.” The foundation for this cutting edge horse-centered therapy program was laid more than 65 years ago, in 1953, when Reverend James Crowe and his wife Ruby Carey Crowe obtained land outside of Rupert, Idaho, and built a ranch for troubled boys to spend a few months living there, working, caring for horses and learning ways to focus their negative energies into something more productive. Back then, it was not called equine therapy, but simply “taking care of your horse.” But the mission was the same. For now, equine therapy is provided on an outpatient basis. However, future plans include building a long-term residential facility on the ranch where 40 children—20 boys and 20 girls—will live in residency for up to nine months. It’s projected to open in 2021.
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is to serve the most vulnerable and marginal kids and families in the state, a theme that has been consistent in his work life. Before coming to the Idaho Youth Ranch, Curtis spent 24 years with the YMCA and then two years in Chile serving underprivileged populations. He has also worked as a social worker in the Boise School District.
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Many Idahoans know the name of Idaho Youth Ranch, but few know the diverse ways in which the 65-year-old organization helps youth and teens overcome trauma from negative childhood experiences. For homeless or runaway kids, or victims of abuse and neglect, the Idaho Youth Ranch operates Hays House in Boise, a 24-hour place where adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 can find a safe and supportive temporary place to stay, as well as receive counseling, education and GED instruction and testing. The Idaho Youth Ranch also operates a program called YouthWorks!, which gives teenagers on-the-job training at Idaho Youth Ranch stores and helps them develop work skills to be successful at finding and keeping employment.
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than it is in most places in the United States, but it is.” In 2018, the Idaho Youth Ranch served 1,098 kids and their families, services that included job trainings, outpatient therapy, residential programs, adoptions, and family therapies. This was a significant increase over the 626 clients in 2017. They also invested in their thrift stores. “The needs of our youth have changed so much in 65 years, and the types of challenges and trauma our youth are facing are different than young people in the 1950s were struggling with,” Curtis said. “Research has found that what happens to children in their early years affects them their whole lives.”
Donations and Thrift Stores Idaho Youth Ranch’s thrift stores around the state and its massive distribution center are perhaps familiar to many. Each year, several million pounds of donations are dropped off at the stores and at the main distribution center in Boise. Clothing, electronics, artwork, furniture, sporting equipment, bicycles, yard equipment, books and movies, vehicles and more is taken in, sorted, catalogued, and sent out to the 24 Idaho Youth Ranch thrift stores that dot the state. Income from the sales of these items helps fund various programs. “The thrift side of the organization is critical to providing services for our programs, but it’s also amazing the amount of mission work that’s going on inside the stores and distribution centers, too,” Curtis said. “We have a full time staff totaling 425, and they all have medical benefits, and full time jobs. And you’ll notice we employ a large number of refugees and single parents. So, aligned with our mission of working with vulnerable youth there is a lot of that same work happening here.” Inside the enormous distribution center, a forklift operator slides his metal blades underneath a wrapped and ready 1200-pound bulk bundle of clothing to load on his truck. He has purchased the huge bundles, which are randomly put together and packaged by the pound. These are clothes not sellable in the stores. The bulk clothing and materials may be sent to South
America, Asia, or Africa where they are sold for clothing, rags, or whatever is needed. Old wiring is sold for its copper. Shoes that don’t sell are purchased for their rubber bottoms, which are then recycled to create the rubberized base for running tracks and the pellets under the Boise State University Bronco Field. Curtis said the operation also has an important environmental impact: In just the past nine months, the selling and recycling of these donations has kept nearly 6 million pounds of materials from being deposited in the landfill.
Future Goals An important piece of the future mission is to get the long-term residential treatment facility up and operating at the Hands of Promise Ranch near Middleton, according to Curtis. “A couple years ago the decision was made to phase in the ranch. Instead of starting with the residential program there we decided to build the infrastructure and the outdoor and indoor riding arenas, because equine therapy has really become a signature program of ours,” Curtis said. “Now, we’re moving into the next phase of capital campaigning and construction of the residential treatment center. As we continue to grow and work with the result of this trauma epidemic, we also have to work with everyone across the state to build awareness of Idaho’s high prevalence of childhood trauma and work together to end it. The Idaho Youth Ranch is about working with those youth who have fallen through all of the safety nets. There’s nobody left to catch them, and that is why we are here.”
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oiseans know that Bogus Basin Road is the gateway that takes skiers and boarders, cyclists, and summer recreation enthusiasts all the way up the mountain to the Bogus Basin Ski Recreation Area 19 miles away. But many people don’t think much about the small, well-tended mid-century neighborhood area that they must pass through on their way out of town. The Highlands neighborhood spreads primarily east of Bogus Basin Road into lush curvy side streets bearing street names that pay homage to Scotland, the original home of The Highlands: Wyndemere, Braemere, Hearthstone, Keldoon, Argyll, Afton, Pashcal, Selkirk, Heather and Tartan. Back in the 1800s, the arid area had a small smattering of farms, but in 1888 Boise pioneer schoolteacher and farmer Franklin B. Smith patented 160 acres of the land, which, 67 years later, would be developed into The Highlands by Franklin’s grandson Richard B. Smith. Before it became The Highlands, the area was known as the more colorful Slaughterhouse Gulch, as its primary commercial feature at the time was the Idaho Provision and Packing Company’s meatpacking house. Richard B. Smith’s daughter, Boisean Shelley Eichmann, recalls her conversation many years ago with a woman who had lived all her life on 15th Street, south of Slaughterhouse Gulch, who told her that when the spring rains came there would be red water flowing into her basement down from the meat packing operations.
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In 1955, Smith and his co-developers Fred Bagley, Ted Eberle, and Robert Kinsinger, launched The Highlands project on land Smith’s grandfather, Franklin, had patented more than 60 years earlier. The name of the area was changed from Slaughterhouse Gulch to The Highlands, and in a further tip of the hat toward the Scottish spirit, Smith had his real estate salesmen wear Royal Stewart plaid tartan jackets at work, according to Eichmann. Smith also employed a new 1956 Parade of Homes magazine marketing scheme to promote featuring The Highlands. new neighborhoods, called The Parade of Homes, which still continues throughout the Treasure Valley today. Marketed as a family activity, the Parade of Homes provided pony rides and clowns for the children while their parents viewed the new houses. As an additional incentive for potential homebuyers, Smith facilitated the development of the Crane Creek Country Club by selling the land to the club for $1. Additional country club land was gained in a land swap with
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J.R. Simplot, through which the late potato tycoon acquired the parcel on which he built his hilltop house. The Simplot mansion was demolished in 2016, but its immense 30-by-50foot American flag that waved 200 feet above it still stands as one of the most prominent landmarks in The Highlands area and is visible for miles. In the 1960s, The Highlands neighborhood became known for its colorful Christmas light display as Highlands homeowners joined together to festoon their houses in holiday decorations, drawing visitors and traffic from all areas of Boise. The neighborhood also gained national recognition for building the country’s first prototype bomb shelter in 1961. According to Eichmann, Highland homeowners each contributed $100 toward the shelter’s construction with the rest coming from the Federal Civil Defense Agency. With its classic midcentury architecture, the Highlands neighborhood is still a sought after location for homebuyers. Many homes are more than 60 years old, and although
it’s not designated as a historic district, The Highlands neighborhood holds an important place in Boise’s history. Today, both residents of The Highlands and neighboring Boiseans enjoy the many businesses, restaurants and services located near the neighborhood’s entryway at the convergence of Bogus Basin, Harrison, and Hill roads. These include sporting stores such as McCu Sports, Alpenglow Mountainsport, and Greenwood’s Ski Haus; food, drinks and more at Highlands Hollow Brewhouse, O’Michaels Pub and Grill, Hawkins Pac-Out, and Lulu’s Pizza; services such as Healthwise, Bogus Basin Ticket Office, Car Tub Car Wash; and many others. Camel’s Back Park and Hyde Park are a short walk or bike ride away; the lovely Hull’s Gulch Reserve is right over the hill, and downtown Boise is about a 15 minute jaunt by bike or car. And finally, what’s not to love about a place close enough to be up skiing at the Bogus Basin Ski Recreation Area within about 30 minutes, and then be back to the neighborhood in time to play a round of golf in the afternoon.
A FEW ITEMS OF INTEREST, PAST AND PRESENT Bogus Basin Road
In the late 1930s, volunteers skied and hiked over 150 miles of terrain looking for the right spot to build a new ski area in the mountains north of Boise. They eventually settled on Bogus Basin at the base of Shafer Butte. But getting to the new ski area was a whole other project. In 1938 a groundbreaking was held to begin construction of the rugged, one lane Bogus Basin Road that today runs through The Highlands. Once completed, Bogus Basin Road stretched 19 miles from downtown and had 172 turns. The narrow,
unpaved road was often muddy, icy and slippery and only allowed for oneway traffic, with cars heading up the mountain in the morning and coming back downhill in the afternoon.
Boise Bomb Shelter
In 1961, The Highlands gained national recognition when the “Highlands Community Fallout Shelter” was constructed. It was the first prototype community fallout shelter in the United States spurred by fears of nuclear war. The shelter, buried 25 feet underground, was designed to house 1,000 people or approximately
375 families, for an extended period in the event of nuclear attack. It was two stories, 14,000 square feet, made of steel reinforced concrete, and included a diesel generator, kitchen, food storage, air filtration, medical facilities, sleeping quarters, bathrooms, recreation facilities, laundry facilities and decontamination showers. The shelter was purchased in 1972 by The Independent School District of Boise City for use as administrative offices and storage of school records, furniture, and film reels. In 2003, the property was purchased by Jon P. Farren who
converted it into an engineering office, indoor storage, and music studios for local bands needing rehearsal space.
Foothills Trails
There are several miles of trails accessible from The Highlands. One of the most popular is Harrison Hollow, an easy hike that welcomes off leash dogs and offers wanderers great views of the foothills and the city below, desert flowers, creeks and diverse terrain. The trailhead and parking can be found at the top of Harrison Hollow Boulevard, just off Bogus Basin Road behind the Healthwise offices.
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The North Fork Championship challenges the world's best kayakers By Kira Tenney
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boasting 16 miles of continuous class V whitewater that also happens to be roadside. Winding down Highway 55 between McCall and Boise, the run can be broken into sections of varying difficulty. It ends at the confluence with the South Fork of the Payette in Banks. Jagged rocks dumped in the river during road construction form many of the steep rapids of the North Fork and give it a reputation of having unforgiving whitewater. The hardest rapid on the run is Jacob’s Ladder, or Jake’s, and it is the venue for the main event of the North
Fork Championship (NFC), held June 1316, where athletes are not just making their way down, but are also launching off a huge Red Bull ramp into the river and then racing as fast as they can through gates that push them to navigate even more challenging and extreme lines than they normally would. Due to the difficulty and volatility of the river, the NFC is known for being anyone’s race to win. James Byrd, who co-founded the event with his wife, Regan, 8 years ago, said they created it to give “all of the energy of kayaking a worthy venue, to
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both push the sport and share it with a larger audience.” Byrd, along with McCall local Tristan McClaran, holds the record for running the entire North Fork, including Jacob’s Ladder, in 2010 at the record flow of 9,000 cubic feet per second, which is over four times the average summer flow. For the event’s inaugural year, the Byrds reached out to 30 of the best kayakers in the world to compete, and almost all of them came. “True to this river, local legend Ryan Casey won the first year among top competitors and names in the sport from all over the world,” recalled James. When asked about Jacob’s Ladder and the race, Casey offered: “For every other rapid on the North Fork, there is this 99 percent [chance] that you are going to get your line, but for Jake’s it’s always a roll of the dice. My paddling buddy Henry Munter and I always used to say, ‘See you at the bottom, sunny side up,’” implying that just paddling to the bottom of Jacob’s Ladder right side up the entire way is often the best you can ask for, even for those at the very top level of kayaking. In previous years, the competitors in the finals were voted in as an Elite Division with 10 additional “Wild Card” competitors qualifying in a preliminary downriver sprint race. This year, all competitors in the Jacob’s Ladder World Championships Finals will be determined at the Kokatat Qualifier, a downriver sprint on S-turn rapid on June 13, and in the North Fork semifinals head-to-head races on June 14. This is also the first year the event will have a Women’s Division, in which women will have the opportunity to compete for the title “Queen of the North Fork.” They will also compete for prize money equal to that of the men’s division: $5,000 for first, $2,500 for second, and $1,000 for third. A primary contender for the Women’s Division is Nouria Newman from France, who holds the only female descents of Site Zed on the Stikine (“Kayaking’s Everest”) and who recently completed an expedition down the Pascua, a big-water run in Chile that few have even attempted and that a couple of high-level teams have walked out of mid-attempt. Newman has raced in the NFC multiple years and claimed a top finish of 8th overall in the Jacob’s SUMMER 2019
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group of “movers and shakers” in local and global river conservation together to inform and inspire this crew that spends so much time on rivers, as well as others, about what’s going on and how to be more aware and involved in river conservation and advocacy. “Sponsored by Payette Brewing, this conservation night in Boise is a really important piece of the event,” said Byrd. “We’re here to have fun, but we’re also here to talk about some important challenges to our rivers in order to get people to become more involved. We’re also really stoked that this year NFC will be the World Championships and reach a broader audience of paddlers, from countries worldwide. We’re really reaching out all over, there will be contestants from Nepal and other more far-reaching destinations, and we’re working to highlight them, their country, and their rivers.” June 13, after the qualifying race, there will be a night showcasing films, photos, and the day’s results at the Egyptian Theatre in Boise. June 14 and 15 there will also be the NFC White-
water Festival at Weilmunster Park in Crouch, with music, beer, food, yard games, slow bike races, and whitewater industry vendors. When it comes to this Idaho river, something that distinguishes the NFC is the widespread fear factor for the competitors. “At NFC,” Newman said, “you’re trying to paddle a rapid that’s really really hard, and it’s the only race where I’m actually really scared before I drop in every time. It’s less about precision compared to other races and more about making it through.” This year will be NFC’s biggest year ever, as the open format has competitors from near and far flocking to the site of some of the world’s hardest whitewater hoping to not just make it through, but to win it all.
The North Fork Championship (NFC), is set for June 13-16, and will include a women’s division for the first time this year. For a full schedule of events, visit northforkchampionship.com
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Last year's winners, from left: Dane Jackson, U.S., two-time Champion; Aniol Serrasolses, Spain, 2018 Champion; Gerd Serrasolses, Spain, 2015 Champion.
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hen the heat of summer fully descends on the Treasure Valley, Boisean’s surge to the Boise River that flows through the heart of the city. This summer, with the opening of the Boise Whitewater Park’s second phase, the river will become an even bigger recreational draw. The first phase of the Whitewater Park opened on the riverside of Esther Simplot Park in June 2012 with a full rebuild of the Thurman Mill Diversion dam. The original dam was a dangerous barrier of concrete and rebar that spanned the width of the river. That
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dam was removed and replaced with an adjustable Wave Shaper device, a patented technology that shapes flowing water into desired features. This created a place where water could be diverted safely for irrigation, while making a whitewater wave that could be used for recreation on demand. For Doug Holloway, director of Boise Parks and Recreation, the popularity of that first phase of the park was expected, but what surprised him was the amount of surfers who flooded the park.
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technician who adjusts the waves for surfers, while Andrew Webb is the wave technician for kayaks and playboats. The first new feature improved the Farmers Union dam with a mechanical wave different from the Wave Shaper used in the first phase. This one spans the width of the river and uses pneumatic gates to change the shape of the wave from a hole-style wave more suited to kayaks to a green wave geared toward whitewater surfers. The feature also diverts water into the Farmers Union canal adjacent to the park. The other two new features are engineered boulder structures that also span the width of the river. These aren’t adjustable, but the waves created by them will change as water levels rise and fall. The boulders were placed in the river and filled in with concrete to prevent entrapments that can occur in natural rock formations. Both whitewater surfing and kayaking are relatively new sports, and as they have evolved, safety concerns have become a priority for its enthusiasts. Paul Collins, a local orthopedic
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surgeon and avid whitewater kayaker, was part of a group of kayakers who first suggested the concept of a whitewater park to the city 30 years ago. “We began to see the danger as boating began to grow,” he says. “Thirty some years ago, kayaking was a new sport and the way it used to work is, you would get in a huge boat and you would try to make it down the river. You never stopped to play or do anything like that.” For a river that runs through a town with dams for irrigation canals, Collins saw an opportunity to make the dams safer, working with designers, like Scott Shipley who designed phase two, to create a safer environment. Despite the safer nature of a manmade whitewater park, Primus urges users to take the same precautions they would on a naturally occuring wave. That includes avoiding leashes for surfboards, as there will be naturally occuring debris in the river that could cause issues. Primus also hopes that the smoothness and consistency of the wave at the first feature will allow users to build their skills in a controlled environment. “It will provide opportunity for people to progress to levels we haven’t even seen before,” Primus says. “It’s a pretty new sport, and I think this wave will provide the opportunity for that progression.”
The Whitewater Park’s new adjustable feature serves more than just a recreational purpose. It acts as a water diverter to push water from the river as it rises into the Farmers’ Union canal. This diversion can mitigate flood risks as water levels rise from dense snow pack, and it enticed Garden City residents, who live on the river’s banks closest to the park, to support the project. David Eberle, formerly of the Boise City Council, lives on the river beside the park and served as a liaison from the Waterfront District Homeowners Association during the project. The parks department worked with residents during construction. “The city offered to ensure a no net rise in heavy flooding,” he says. “The way it’s supposed to work, the neighborhood won’t flood, and the developer brought us above the floodplain, so the whole thing seems like a good idea from that perspective.” The grand opening celebration of the park is slated for July. Another phase of the park is not currently in the works, but Collins and the whitewater community are hopeful that the dam at the Settler’s Irrigation District diversion, which can be seen upstream from Americana Boulevard, will be next in the line of reconstruction. “People are going to be attracted to what’s downstream,” Collins says.
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RICHARD ZIMMERMAN, AKA “DUGOUT DICK”
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SOLITARIES CHOOSING TO GO IT ALONE IN SALMON RIVER COUNTRY PHOTO BY ANDY ANDERSON
BY CHERYL HAAS
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he isolation of the Salmon Rivers—the Main and the Middle Fork—far from civilization in the heart of the Frank Church “River of No Return” Wilderness was a haven for some of the most colorful characters in Idaho history. They were hermits, or “solitaries” in the parlance of the day. They fiercely guarded their independence and way of life: off the grid without benefit of jet boats, electricity or other modern conveniences. These men and women became living legends, celebrated as icons of rugged Idaho individualism and frontier self-reliance. Perhaps the best known of these canyon dwellers was Polly Bemis, the diminutive Chinese woman who was shipped to America and sold into slavery by her father in 1871. Legend has it that she was “won” in a poker game by Charlie Bemis, a saloonkeeper in the old mining town of Warren. She eventually married Bemis and spent the rest of her life on their homestead on the Salmon just downriver from Mackay Bar. If you know anything about Idaho river lore, then you’ve probably heard about Polly Bemis. But you may not know about Buckskin Bill, who lived upriver from the Bemis Ranch. Or Free Press Frances at Campbell’s Ferry. Or Dugout Dick, Cougar Dave, the Hermit of Impassable Canyon, Wheelbarrow Annie, Behind-the-Rocks Johnny, Wildhorse Cowgirl, The Ridgerunner or Doc Hisom.
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BUCKSK IN BILL Park Avenue or Bond Street? Just this: a cold wind is what kills you in the mountains, but it can’t cut through a stag hide. And buckskin protects you from thorns. Know what those fringes are for? Not decoration. They let water run off faster!” He tended a 10,000-square-foot garden— fertilized by a buried deer, two bear heads and a cougar skeleton—which produced a bounty of fruits and vegetables: parsnips, carrots, beets, cabbage, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupes, strawberries, pear and apple trees, and horseradish. Twice a year, he brought in $50 worth of flour, sugar, coffee, oatmeal, rice and raisins on his neighbor’s pack string. He paid for these by panning for gold during the summer. Peterson asked him if it were true that he used to go to town for “nothing but tea, gunpowder and books.” Buckskin replied drily, “When its 40 miles to town on ropes and snowshoes, that’s about all you can carry.” He was known for his exquisite craftsmanship of flintlock rifles, made, as Hart told Sports Illustrated, by using a “rotating helix driven by [his] fingers on a headblock nailed to the table.” He made his own bullets from bullet molds he crafted, as well as knives, copper pots and cherry wood bowls. These items and more still litter his home and outbuildings, which are part of a living museum maintained by a German couple who came to the canyon in 1981. Buckskin Bill may have been one of the few people in the country to have taken on the IRS, and won. Apparently, the fearsome agency had sent a slew of letters threatening dire consequences if he didn’t pay up on back taxes. Buckskin received government checks, not bothering to cash most of them. He never earned more than $500 in a year from his work as a Forest Service fire lookout, so didn’t see the need to file taxes. Clearly the IRS disagreed. According to author Cort Conley, as
reported in his book “Idaho Loners,” Buckskin “… togged himself out in bearskin britches, a bear claw necklace, shouldered his tent, sleeping bag, a sack of jerked venison, picked up his rifle and traveled out to McCall and on to Boise.” He presented himself at the IRS office, and “surrendered.” According to Conley, he even allowed as to how “he was ready to go to prison and had even brought his own pemmican.” The bureaucrats took one look at this character with his horned leather cap, long white beard and intelligent gleam in his eye, and sent him on his way, promising not to bother him again. The article in Sports Illustrated brought Buckskin Bill fame and notoriety. He took it all in stride with good humor and delighted in exaggerating his mountain man persona. In 1978, outfitted in a coonskin hat, buckskin clothing and his bear claw necklace, he flew to Boise to throw the first pitch for a new baseball team, the Boise Buckskins. In 1980, just shy of his 74th birthday, he died in his cabin the same way he had lived: alone.
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uckskin Bill arrived on Five Mile Bar during the Depression in 1932 and lived on his bit of land until his death in 1980. Favoring headgear of a leather cap with horns, sporting black glasses, a long beard and buckskin leggings, he was dubbed “The Last of the Mountain Men” and was the subject of a National Geographic television special of the same name. Born Sylvan Ambrose Hart in 1906, he graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in literature. He found his way to Five Mile Bar where his nephew had bought a patented mill site and gave Hart four-tenths of an acre on the banks of the Salmon River. In those days he would have had to hike 96 miles over the mountains to Grangeville, which he did, for supplies. Hart’s spacious compound, all of which he built or crafted by hand, was downright luxurious by hermit standards: he built a kitchen house and blacksmith shop, and a two-story dwelling. The first floor of his home, fashioned from wood and covered with stucco, served as his winter quarters. The second floor was his summer home. He could catch cool breezes on the balcony, and it sported a bay window made of a B-18 cockpit canopy that he had packed in on his back. In 1966, a Sports Illustrated journalist, Harold Peterson, tracked him down and asked why he had come to this remote spot in the middle of the wilderness. Hart replied with sly humor, “I just like it so well I never came out. But I wouldn’t want to waste any time complaining about what passes for civilization. That’s too negative. You should be able to see what’s wrong about it with just a side glance, that’s all.” He shot wild game for meat, animal fat grease, and clothing. He favored garments constructed from deerskin. As he told Peterson,” Now what is there about buckskin that you could get better on
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ydia Frances Coyle lived for 46 years in a log cabin by the Salmon River in the heart of what was then the Idaho Primitive Area. She outlived three husbands (deliberately outran the first), resisted running water, and successfully pressured the federal government into allotting funds for a bridge across the river. She was born in 1913, and, as a young woman, worked as a telephone operator in Beeville, Texas. In 1938, she married a man named Charles Gamble. When it came to light that the source of Gamble’s money was a counterfeit ring, Frances fled, landing in Idaho. In Salmon, she took up with a fellow named Bert Rhoades who was subsequently arrested for poaching game. Frances was jailed as well but released soon thereafter and disappeared into the wilderness. After working for a time on the Stonebraker Ranch in the Chamberlain Basin of central Idaho, she happened across Joe Zaunmiller leading a
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pack string up the Three Blaze Trail. She asked him if he knew of anyone who needed a ranch hand. He hired her on the spot. Little did she know that, in 1942, Joe would become her husband, and she’d spend the rest of her life at Campbell’s Ferry on the Salmon River. Frances helped Zaunmiller run a cable ferry boat across the Salmon, in addition to chopping wood, canning fruits and vegetables from a large orchard and garden, haying the alfalfa field, raising ducks and chickens, and repairing the system of irrigation ditches that ran through the ranch. From May through September, Frances worked the ranch alone while Joe was employed as a packer for the Payette and Nez Perce National Forests. Photographs from that time show her dressed in skirts and dresses, despite the rigorous demands of daily life on the remote ranch. In 1945—in her spare time—she began to write a weekly column about living in the backcountry
for the Idaho Free Press, a newspaper in Grangeville. (Initially sent by overland mail, the columns traveled four miles downriver to the Dale Ranch, then along a primitive road to Dixie and another 60 miles to Grangeville. After 1958 and the building of an airstrip at Campbell’s Ferry, the columns went by air.) Always describing herself in third person, she explained why she turned down her husband’s offer to pipe running water into the cabin: “For years, Joe wanted to put running water in the house but she doesn’t want it. Running water would make a lot less work, but Joe doesn’t promise that the little water ditch that talks its way past the cabin door would not be taken away – so she will keep the ditch and listen to the water tell its tales of the places it has been. You should hear it brag sometimes!” A neighbor once kindly installed a generator and wired the cabin for electric lights. Frances listened to the hum of the generator for just one night before she decided it made too much racket. Some 30 years later, the ceramic fixtures and bulbs still hung, unlit, from the cabin ceiling. Frances used the popularity of her weekly column to agitate for improvements to Campbell’s Ferry. She started a letter-writing campaign to Idaho’s two senators for a bridge to replace the ferry until Sen. Henry Dworshak sponsored a bill. It was through Frances’ efforts that the Congress paid for a bridge in the wilderness where any kind of new construction was banned. She also succeeded in bringing mail to canyon residents via a weekly backcountry plane in 1958. (She once received Christmas presents in August because the overland mail was so infrequent and unreliable.) Because the airstrip was on a slope facing the river, in the winter Frances would tamp down new snow with her snowshoes before the small plane could land. After Zaunmiller passed away in 1962, the couple’s long-time friend Vern Wisner moved onto the property to help Frances. He and Frances married and enjoyed seven contented years until Vern’s death. She lived another 12 years on the ranch by herself until her death in 1986, engulfed in loneliness for perhaps the first time. A story in the Los Angeles Times brought Frances to the world’s attention, and while she zealously guarded her privacy, she was happy to give interviews when she felt like it. She had strong opinions and wasn’t afraid to share them. If you were lucky, she’d welcome you as a visitor. If not, she’d send you packing back into the wilderness with the sharp edge of her tongue!
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arl Parrott was born in Iowa in 1869, and after short stints as a Western Union telegraph operator in Florida and prospector in the Yukon Gold Rush of 1897 he made his way to Idaho by 1900. Letters to his brother Allen trace his travels from Lewiston to Warren (where Charlie Bemis was the saloonkeeper) to the mouth of Elk Creek on the South Fork of the Salmon during the winter of 1916. As Conley relays in “Idaho Loners,” Johnny Carey, who visited Parrott that winter described Parrott as “…intelligent and industrious, he was also aloof, stubborn and lacking in humor. Nor was he fond of children.” By 1917, Parrott was situated with a tiny cabin on the steep cliffs towering above the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, a section of river deemed the Impassable Canyon. As shy as a wolverine, Parrott was the quintessential hermit, happily subsisting off what he could hunt and grow and panning for gold dust. Parrott’s camp was 1,000 feet up the cliffs, nestled in a hanging valley with a creek running through it. He nimbly scrambled up and down the cliffs on a series of hand-hewn log ladders perched against the rock walls. His garden was large and lush. He irrigated from the creek and saved his seeds to plant the next year. He raised corn, beans, sweet potatoes, cabbage, carrots, peppers, squash, raspberries, strawberries, watermelons, peaches and apricots. He dried and stored the vegetables and berries and hollowed out two yellow pine logs in which he kept his corn and beans. He dug a root cellar for his potatoes. The hermit once said the only other supplies he needed were salt, matches, tea and bullets, for which, once a year, he would trek the 70 miles into Shoup, the nearest town. In 1936, Dr. R.G. Frazier of Utah was part of a boating expedition team who happened on Parrott’s lower shed and climbed his ladders to the
in six months or a year. Had a nice visit, hated to leave him there alone.” Parrott was 67 years old at the time. In July 1939, Frazier again boated the Middle Fork and stopped to see Parrott, who didn’t appreciate the intrusion. The only existing film of Parrott was shot during this visit. Frazier’s colleague, Charles Kelly, noted in his diary that Parrott said, “If he knew we were coming he would have hidden out. Don’t like company. Says he used to go two years without seeing anyone, but now hunters disturb him every few months … Has to go five miles now to hunt deer in the fall. Country is getting too crowded. Used to go 70 miles for supplies. Now goes 10 miles to CCC camp [Civilian Conservation Corps] and bums a ride to town … Don’t like radio. Would rather hear the coyotes howl.” Earl Parrott died in the town of Salmon following complications from a stroke in August, 1945. He was 76 years old.
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rim, surprising the recluse. Frazier described him as “about five feet, four inches, muscular, blueeyed and clean shaven … clad in tattered denim trousers with buckskin suspenders, a buckskin shirt and shoes with tire-tread soles and buckskin tops.” Parrott told his visitors they were his first in 37 years. Frazier wrote about his encounter with the hermit for Field & Stream and the Salt Lake City Deseret News. One of the articles was reprinted in the Oregonian, which caught the eye of Parrott’s brother Allen, whom he hadn’t seen in 38 years. In August 1936, Allen ventured from Starbuck, Wash., to the Salmon River, then over Stoddard Pack Bridge and by trail to Parrott’s place. He later wrote to his sister-in-law, Julia, in Vermont: “I think he is somewhat of a wild man or might say good old frontier days folk, and not to be wondered at when you think he has lived back there all this time by himself. Probably not seen another person once
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can bed down up there. (A nanny butted him off the roof in when he was 65, breaking his hip.) The outside front of my house is logs but the other three sides are rock.” An early proponent of recycling, he used old car windshields as windows. His personal domicile boasted scavenged carpet and linoleum as flooring, a wood stove, a tube pipe that brought fresh water from a spring and a solar collector that ran his radio. He dug a total of 14 structures with a pick, shovel, and pry bar. His caves were visible from Highway 93 across the river and being a sociable man, he ventured into an early form of Airbnb. He realized he could make a living by renting out his caves for $5 a night or $25 a month (up from his initial rate of $2 a night and $20 a month). “I’m in the tourist business,” he once told the Idaho Statesman. “I made $40 the other day. And the Army’s started sending me money every month. I’m livin’ high on the hog now!” Zimmerman married once, to a woman from Mexicali who was his pen pal in a lonely-hearts club. It didn’t take. He told Conley, “She had no taste for goat meat or Rye Krisp, nor any inclination to work in the garden. ‘If you really loved
me,’ she said, ‘you’d build me a house across the river.’” He declined, and she hitchhiked south. A man of many talents, he could pick his guitar and blow his harmonica simultaneously, while dancing a clumsy jig. Because he had a delicate digestion, he couldn’t eat bread, meat, or sugar. With his goats for milk and his garden for fresh vegetables, he did not lack for food. He learned to make yogurt from stinging nettles, ate corn tortillas cooked in wine, drank spud beer, carrot juice and lemon juice, and ate garlic. He sold vegetables and fruit leather in town. “I have everything here,” he once said. “I got lots of rocks and rubber tires. I have plenty of straw and fruits and vegetables, my dog and my cats and my guitar. I make wine to cook with. There’s nothing I really need.” Dugout Dick’s fame spread over the globe. He was featured in National Geographic, appeared on “Good Morning America,” and turned down offers to appear on “The Tonight Show.” Television crews and journalists clamored to chronicle the quirky Caveman of the Salmon River. Zimmerman lived in his caves for over 60 years and died in 2010 at the age of 94.
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his years as a hunter. Perhaps he was stretching the truth, but in 1922, the Idaho Statesman reported, “Mr. Lewis brought to Boise the pelts of 14 cougars, 15 coyotes, 2 bobcats, 2 foxes and 4 mink, all of which were caught last winter.” It was the first time that Lewis had been in Boise since 1878. The Statesman story continued,” Mr. Lewis is a little man and speaks with the slow drawl of the mountaineer. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘you see the same folks on the street every day and it just makes a fellow wonder what they all do to make a living.’ “ Conley described Lewis as “an avid reader in winter; books filled a dark hole in his isolation. He lived alone in his log 15-by-15-foot cabin under a roof insulated with six inches of dirt.” A visiting surveyor described a second room in the cabin,
“cobwebs and dust everywhere” that Lewis never ventured into. In it, he found a large framed portrait of “a beautiful young woman” with its face to the wall. Apparently, the girl had spurned Lewis’ marriage proposal 50 years’ before, and his cracked heart never fully recovered. In 1934, Cougar Dave sold his homestead to Jess Taylor for $1,200. (The University of Idaho later acquired the Taylor Ranch as a research station.) In 1936, Lewis contracted pneumonia and, at the age of 93, rode his horse 25 miles to seek help at the Big Creek Ranger Station. He died at the VA Hospital in Boise a few days later. In his obituary, the Statesman reported, “Last fall he complained that the country was settling up too fast. ‘A man don’t have no privacy no more,’ he told his nearest neighbor—five miles away.”
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Every spring, the mountains of Idaho—which comprise a huge swath of the Northern Rockies— begin to stir. Winter’s hold on the land begins to loosen as water trickles down the mountains to form the great rivers of the Gem State. There are 107,651 miles of river in Idaho; that includes world-class whitewater, scenic flat water, and 22 sections of river that are classified Wild and Scenic. Shown here is the South Fork of the Payette, a free-flowing river that makes its way to the Main Payette, then the Snake, and on up to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. It’s a reminder of the wild beauty just waiting for our attention.
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Endangered monarch butterfly feeds off nectar from a blooming showy milkweed plant in Boise.
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Idaho’s state insect faces environmental challenges on many fronts
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there’s any butterfly that people know, it’s the monarch. Its orangeand-black coloring helps it stand out against the landscape, and stories of its annual migration have charmed schoolchildren for decades. Idaho, in particular, has a special connection with the monarch. In 1992, a group of fourth-graders—all dressed up as monarchs—persuaded the Idaho Legislature to name the monarch butterfly the state insect. “It’s an iconic species in the West,” said Ross Winton, a regional wildlife biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish & Game in Jerome. “You can talk to just about anyone who’s spent time outdoors. They’re big and showy, and people tend to be attracted to big, showy creatures. Folks identify with it.” But the monarch’s days in Idaho may be numbered, to the extent that it may be listed as an endangered species, or even become extinct.
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Generally, monarch butterflies survive better than other butterflies against predators because they’ve learned to use chemical warfare. Monarch butterfly caterpillars feed exclusively on one of the many species of milkweed, which gets its name because of the milky sap that comes out when you break it off. While monarchs
have been known to feed on 27 varieties of milkweed, the different varieties have one thing in common: that milky sap contains several glucosidic substances called cardenolides, which are steroids that act on the heart muscle. Studies have shown that those substances affect the monarch butterfly caterpillars, too. But in general, the monarch has evolved to metabolize this toxin and store it in its body, where it lasts through adulthood. “They’ve adapted to be able to consume the milkweed plant,” Winton said. While the toxin doesn’t necessarily kill animals like birds and mice that eat butterflies, it tastes bad and makes them feel sick, to the extent that studies have shown that eating monarchs makes some birds throw up. “It wouldn’t give them a toxic overload, but birds do it once and don’t do it again,” Winton said. While some other bugs and beetles have also learned to metabolize toxic substances, the monarch has coupled this ability with its bright orange-andblack coloring. “Predators identify the bright orange color as ‘don’t eat me,’” Winton said. In fact, it’s so effective that some other species, such as the viceroy butterfly, also have evolved to display a similar coloring. “The viceroy is a mimic,” he said. “It doesn’t taste bad, but its coloring persuades predators.” SUMMER 2019
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WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PROTECT MONARCHS? • Preserve the milkweed you already have, and plant milkweed for the butterflies to lay their eggs • Plant native flowers to feed the adult butterflies. Goldenrod, rabbitbrush, purple aster, and hyssop are good candidates. • Avoid excessive pesticide use, especially neonicotinoids • Volunteer for groups working on habitat restoration and native plants • Report your findings to the Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper
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The fruit of the showy milkweed plant is a spiky seed pod. Seeds are dispersed when the pod splits open in the late summer to early fall.
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In the same way that East Coasters spend the winter in Florida and West Coasters spend it in Hawaii, Eastern monarch butterflies head down to Mexico for the winter, while Western monarch butterflies—including Idaho’s— head to central California locations, such as Pacific Grove, which hosts a monarch butterfly sanctuary. “Eastern and Western individuals do intermix occasionally,” Winton said. Scientists know this, because they mark butterflies with tags the size of a hole punch. “Most of our tag returns have been picked up in central California,” Winton said. “We’ve never had a tag return from Mexico.” How do the monarch butterflies know where to go? “I have no idea,” Winton admitted. It might be an internal compass, based on magnetic fields in the earth, or cues based on the length of the day, also known as the photoperiod. “As daylight gets shorter, that triggers their instincts TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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to start heading south,” he said. Once on the road, the Eastern and Western butterflies have different flyways, guided by mountain ranges, the oceans, and wind currents. The monarch butterfly lifecycle is complicated because different generations do different things. Adults come back from California in the spring, usually around June. Some of them have already mated; if they haven’t, they mate when they return to Idaho. Then they lay their eggs in Idaho on milkweed. The eggs hatch into caterpillars, which feed on the milkweed, then become a chrysalis, and then emerge as an adult butterfly. “That adult will reproduce and lay a second generation of eggs,” Winton said. “When they emerge as adults, they’re the ones that migrate,” usually around September or October. In fact, more than two generations may hatch in Idaho, said Emma Pelton, a conservation biologist with the Xerces Society, a Portland-based organization
focusing on insect—especially butterfly— conservation. “Idaho breeding begins in June,” she said. “They’re breeding through August and early September, and then they leave.” But there aren’t distinct generations. “They’re probably producing two generations, but they’re overlapping,” she said. “We can’t quite tease out how many generations yet.”
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Monarch butterflies in Idaho haven’t been studied to the extent they have on the East Coast, though that is changing, Pelton said. Monarch butterfly population counts typically happen in the winter, in California, because they’re conveniently clustered, Pelton explained. In fact, there butterflies are counted weekly. “There’s nothing comparable anywhere else in Idaho,” she said. “This is a huge data gap.” Part of the problem is that, once the butterflies are on the move, tracking them is harder because they’re separated. Pelton’s organization has developed the Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper, which lets people report where they’ve seen milkweed and monarch butterflies. And the counting process in Idaho is improving, Pelton said. “Over the past few years, Idaho has done an incredible job, the best of any state, to inventory monarchs and milkweed,” she said. Idaho Fish & Game hired four fulltime technicians to cover the state in a standardized way, as well as performing climate change modeling to predict how habitat will be affected in the future, she said.
Milkweed plant: Courtesy Boise Parks and Recreation
Monarch caterpillars rely on the milkweed plant. Showy milkweed occurs naturally in 28 Idaho counties.
Monarch butterflies have a variety of unusual fans who are helping. The Department of Defense, for example, monitors monarch butterflies near Mountain Home Air Force Base, to develop baseline data in case the monarch butterfly is placed on the endangered species list. “They want a proactive understanding of the distribution on their lands and avoid the impacts, so they can plan if it gets listed,” Pelton said. The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is also helping. For example, the Bliss Rest Area Westbound has a project implemented in 2018 where it partnered with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Boise, the Bureau of Land Management, and Native Roots to design and construct a small demonstration project to promote public awareness and education on pollinators and native plants, said Cathy Ford, roadside program manager. Part of that project included planting showy milkweed, the type most common in Idaho, to help support monarch butterflies, she said. Other Idaho monarch counting and preservation projects are with the College of Western Idaho at the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, Pelton said.
THREATS TO EXISTENCE
The problem that Idaho and other western monarch butterflies are having is that there are threats to their existence all along that lifecycle, and a number of situations are combining that make it worse. Last year was particularly bad. “The whole population crashed,” Winton said. “It’s been on a pretty steep decline for the last couple of decades, but there’s been an 86 percent population decline since last year.” And since recordkeeping started in the 1980s, the Western population has declined 99.5 percent, he added. “I put out 60 tags two years ago,” he said. “Last year, I saw two, and got no tags out.” Other people in southern Idaho reported the same thing, he said. “It’s been a low year from the get-go.” “The population is at a historic low,” Pelton agreed. What causes it? One issue is development in coastal California that
is destroying monarch butterfly winter habitat. “Coastal California used to have lots of conifers,” Winton said. “Because of development, the naturally occurring trees disappear and have been replaced by eucalyptus.” While the butterflies have adapted to that, the eucalyptus trees are also starting to disappear, due to age and further development. In addition, with climate change, there have been more wildfires, especially in California. That not only reduces the number of trees where monarchs live in the winter, but also the flowers they feed on during their migration. It’s the lack of food sources along the migration path to California that are also an issue. “They have to recharge their batteries as they’re migrating,” Winton said. “There’s not as many naturally occurring plants blooming late in the season.” Climate change could also be a factor, because as the temperature increases, the growing season for those flowering plants shortens, he said. “They’re only out for a few days, as opposed to a few weeks.” While there’s been a big push to plant milkweed to help support monarchs, that only helps during the caterpillar phase of the monarch butterfly’s life. “Getting more caterpillars is fantastic, but the butterflies need resources to make their migration,” Winton said. In fact, this year could be the turning point for whether the monarch butterfly survives in Idaho. It had already been estimated by scientists that the Western population might go extinct in 20 to 30 years, but last winter’s population crash bumped that up substantially, Winton said. But there’s still a chance. “Winter was wet down south, but the flowers are doing really well in the deserts,” Pelton said. But it’ll be tight. “The numbers are getting so low that there’s a concern about whether they will be able to replace themselves, due to predation,” he said. “The projections are that, unless we have a banner year, they won’t be able to replace themselves in the population.” That doesn’t mean monarchs will go extinct altogether, but the Idaho population and its California migration could end, Winton said. “In recent years,
monarch butterflies in Southern California have established themselves year-round, and don’t migrate at all,” due to a variety of tropical milkweed that doesn’t die off and provides the butterflies with a constant food source, he said.
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So what would be the problem if monarchs left Idaho? They don’t fulfill a major role in the ecosystem; it’s not like honeybees, where farmers depend on them to pollinate the crops. But monarchs are the canary in the coal mine, as it were. “They’re a flagship species,” Winton said. “They don’t necessarily play an ‘uber’ important role in the ecosystem. But they represent the larger role of insects getting out of whack.” And there’s more to it than that. “It’s a cultural thing,” Winton said. Generations of kids will no longer be able to watch monarchs, collect a chrysalis, and watch the butterfly emerge. “That’s going to be lost,” he said.
Although numbers are dwindling, Idaho’s monarchs come from California around June and lay their eggs on milkweed.
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Window Onto the Wild A campaign for conserving the Barber Pool
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mill on the riverbank, a dam in the river, and a millpond rapping down Warm Springs Avenue and north in between. The company’s plan was to drive logs down of Surprise Way in Boise is an oblong parcel of land. the river to supply the mill, but silt from upstream mining It is an area you’ve probably driven by but didn’t threatened to fill the pond when this plan was implemented, realize it. so the technique was soon abandoned. The Barber Pool Conservation Area (BPCA) spans a As the lumber companies merged and favored the stretch of riverbanks, sandy islands and calm water on the railway over the river for transport, the millpond became east end of Boise. From the trout that navigate its ripples, to owned though unused by Boise the mule deer that graze on its Cascade. When Lucky Peak Dam grasses and the bald eagles that was built in 1955, the annual nest in its black cottonwood trees, springtime flooding of the pool hundreds of species of flora and ended, and with it, the cottonfauna grow and live in the area, wood forests stopped growing. undisturbed by human activity. In 1978, Boise Cascade donated There are no trails or access much of the pool to the Idaho points for people in the private Foundation for Parks and Lands, wildlife refuge, which is owned and in 2002, the IFPL joined 11 by the Idaho Foundation for — Brian McDevitt, board member, other entities to form Friends of Public Lands (IFPL). It covers 425 Idaho Foundation for Public Lands the Barber Pool. These groups acres between Barber Dam and conducted exhaustive surveys of the Boise Diversion Dam, with the the pool and its islands, creating an inventory and analysis Boise River to the north and New York Canal to the south, of the ecosystem there and drafting a master plan and recand is one of the largest areas of its kind within an urban ommendations for its restoration. city in America. “One of the things that the core study said is that the In the winter, bald eagles perch in the large-growth biggest potential damage to the Barber Pool is both domestic cottonwoods of Barber Pool, one of the species’ last active pets and human interaction,” says Brian McDevitt, who is nesting sites in Boise. The health of the cottonwoods is in an IFPL board member and whose home overlooks the pool. decline, and the IFPL has quietly been conducting a private “Our goal is to minimize both of those.” capital campaign to mitigate this damage and other issues More than 40 years have passed since the foundation within the pool. When completed, the $3 million raised will became stewards of the pool. They have worked hard to be used to restore and protect this riparian area for future acquire all of the privately held land around it, including generations of its inhabitants. a 12-acre parcel on its northern side that’s adjacent to the The Barber Pool first surfaced in Boise’s history of modIdaho Shakespeare Festival amphitheater. ern development in 1864, when Isaac N. Coston from New The festival has played an important role in the York established a ranch on the south bank of the river. He conservation effort and was one of the 12 groups in the built a small cabin, which now stands in the Pioneer Village Friends of the Barber Pool coalition. Mark Hofflund, the at Julia Davis Park, and became a successful farmer. His executive director of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, says family moved on from the area as the lumber industry grew its proximity to the pool continues the tradition of major in Boise. classic amphitheaters that prioritized their natural The site Coston farmed was inundated with water in environment. 1906 when the Barber Lumber Company constructed a saw-
“...the core study said [that] the biggest potential damage to Barber Pool is both domestic pets and human interaction. Our goal is to minimize both of those.”
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largest remaining piece of privately held riverfront property in Boise. The IFPL is also working to purchase water rights to effectively irrigate the conservation area each spring, mimicking the floods that created its habitats. As climate change creates longer dry seasons, the IFPL’s methods will protect the Barber Pool for long-term prosperity. The foundation, being conservative, recognizes the rights of property owners and the rights of citizens in Idaho to use the river. They plan to implement an education program for users on how to pass through the pool without disturbing its inhabitants. “There’s going to be a natural use of the waterway for recreation, and we’re absolutely not trying to fight it,” McDevitt says. “Enjoy a scenic one or two hour float all the way to the Ada County take-out and recognize how unique this is that you can do this inside a city limit.”
WHERE TO VIEW THE BARBER POOL Because the Barber Pool is without trails and access points, there are few ways to take in its beauty from anywhere but the water. There are, however, many ways to view it from a safe distance that don’t require a paddle. Here are a few: Barber Observation Point 6300 S Surprise Way. This is a two-acre special use area with benches and information about the Barber Valley.
Idaho Shakespeare Festival 5657 E. Warm Springs Ave. There are nature paths open all year round just past the box office where visitors can walk and learn about the habitat.
Boise River Greenbelt Walk or bike toward Lucky Peak and stop near Warm Springs Avenue just before the old Ben’s Crow Inn, approximately one mile south of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival grounds.
Highway 21 Bridge Use caution, as this is an active roadway.
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ind rustles the needles of nearby pine trees. The sun’s first golden ray of light extends above the mountains. It’s moving fast. The air is moist and there’s a musky smell, somewhere. As the sun slides above the Lewis Mountain Range, in northern Montana, warmth spills out and over the untouched land. It glistens across the water reflects the blue sky in droplets of dew on disheveled blades of grass. The musky smell gets stronger, and, then, you see it. Five hundred pounds of sheer muscle with razor-sharp claws and alert ears. Its wet nose rises in the air sniffing for the next meal. It moves slowly with restrained power like it
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has been storing energy all night for this one moment. It sees you. And in one press of force, it stands on its hind legs to nine feet tall and barrels out a bone-chilling throaty roar. Montana grizzly bears. They’re feared by many but not by professional fine art landscape photographer and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Jeff Callihan. He spent four summers in Montana exploring Glacier National Park and peacefully living in his camper among hundreds of grizzly bears. He says grizzly bears are somewhat predictable. However, there is one thing that he did fear. And just the thought of it, Callihan says, made his blood run cold. It was the thought of making it as a full-time photographer. “I remember thinking, ‘How does one become a full-time photographer?” Callihan said in a recent interview. “I had no idea how to do that, so I made a pact with myself to just keep taking photos.” Callihan was born with a natural talent for photography. Both his grandfather and father were proficient photographers. However, he didn’t realize it was even an interest of his until his job, as a welding inspector, required that he take photos of imperfections. At that time, it was just a necessary part of the job. He had box camera with film that he had to ship off to get developed.
Bottom, left: This grizzly charged Callihan in Glacier National Park. He took the photo within 10-15 feet of where the bear stopped charging. Above and below: Two of Callihan’s photographs of the park’s Lake McDonald.
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From top: “Fall Perspectives” and “Painted Dream” are just two examples of Jeff Callihan’s ability to capture nature’s sublime moments. Callihan had the “Fall Perspectives” photo laid out on a table and realized that it was the perfect perspective to put into a coffee table. He has since built several tables with various images, but this image is where it all started. TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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“The photos that came back were terrible,” Callihan recalled. When he spent the time to find a new camera with adjustable settings, he also found what would become his greatest passion. The following weekend he was camping by a lake in Michigan and became obsessed with getting the perfect sunrise shot. That was 20 years ago. Today, Callihan owns and operates his own landscape photography gallery in the Village at Meridian, the first of its kind in the Treasure Valley. The gallery is an indoor display of Callihan’s many years spent in the outdoors. His photos are edited minimally, and all of the photos are hung with custom metal frames Callihan makes. Each frame takes him about a day to make. In order to open the gallery he welded 50 custom frames. “I learned how to weld when I was 15,” Callihan said. “And it occurred me to one day that I could make wood frames, but I wondered what a metal frame would look like.” He makes the frames out of tube steel. When he finished his first frame and hung it on the wall, Callihan says he realized that he might have stumbled on to something. The metal frames are seemingly before their time. Callihan has had customers ask if the photos are actually TV screens. Seems fitting for the modern space he’s created in his gallery, with suede seating and metal and glass tables. But they’re not TV screens. They’re images that tell a story of the ruggedness found in a natural setting and the hard work Callihan has poured into each photo. One of his most recognized pieces is a sunrise photo of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park: golden yellow and magenta light spills across the lake with the snow-crested Lewis Mountain Range looming in the background. It’s easy to see why this photo is so popular, but it wasn’t an easy one to capture. It took Callihan 125 tries over a span of three years to capture that perfect moment. It required waking up at 3 a.m. and hiking alone in the frigid darkness. And it required stubbornness, the drive to get that perfect shot and refuse to give up on it. “There were
Jeff Callihan in his gallery at the Village at Meridian.
times where I would think to myself, ‘I don’t want to do this’,” Callihan said. “I was terrified hiking in the dark sometimes, but I needed that shot.” And Callihan is no rookie to uncomfortable situations. He says that his time served in the United States Marine Corps has helped him deal with the uncomfortable. He served four years active duty and four years in the reserves. “Without that training, I could have never done this,” Callihan said. “The Marine Corps has a way of de-sensitizing you and reinforcing mental toughness.” He knew how to deal with, what most would call, unbearable situations. However, just like his struggle in figuring out how to become a fulltime photographer, Callihan had a hard time thinking of himself as a “creative.” He started leading photography workshops and attending markets to sell his art, still not sure of himself as a true creative. He had branded himself for years as an analytical person with a good work ethic. He could build a truck from scratch, weld and forge metal, and shoot at and hit targets that one cannot see with the naked eye but—a creative? “It was only 10 years ago that I really admitted and embraced that I was a creative,” Callihan said. “And when I did, it all changed for me.”
Q&A WITH JEFF CALLIHAN TERRITORY: Where is your dream place to travel to and take photos? JC: The Isle of Sky in Scotland, or the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. TERRITORY: What type of gear to you use? JC: Camera body- Nikon D810, Gitzo Carbon Fiber heavy-duty tripod, and lenses ranging from 18 mm - 500 mm TERRITORY: What sets you apart? JC: What sets me apart from other landscape photographers is that I will continue to show up. I already know what image or look I’m going for, and I go to that same spot over and over again until I get it. TERRITORY: What do you like to do besides taking photos? JC: I forge metals. I’ve just started forging these new copper bowls and pulling red, blue, and orange hues from the copper using heat. You can create an abstract sunset by just using heat.
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An Intimate Musical Experience By Cheryl Haas
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o mark the end of Music Director Daniel Stern’s celebrated 14-year tenure, the Boise Baroque Orchestra, with the Boise Philharmonic Master Chorale, closed its 2018-2019 season with a stunning performance of Hayden’s masterpiece oratorio, “The Creation.” It was a fitting choice as Boise Baroque embarks on its next phase of creation in the 2019-2020 season: one that promises to bring the organization to a rich maturity with exciting change and opportunity. Robert Franz, who spent eight fruitful years as music director of the Boise Philharmonic from 2008-2016, will step into the role of artistic advisor as he helps Boise Baroque navigate this transition. “We had applicants from all over the world,” said incoming board president Helen Carter. “But unanimously, Robert came out on top!” Franz is well-loved in the community and is well-versed in Baroque music: his master’s thesis focused on Mozart’s performance practices, and, as an oboist and conductor, he’s played more than his fair share of Baroque music. “I love Early Classical music,” enthused Franz. “I’m very ex-
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cited about the music and working with these musicians.” Franz will conduct three of the five concerts and will continue his other appointments as music director for the Windsor Symphony in Ontario, Canada, associate conductor for the Houston Symphony, and music director for the Fairbanks (Alaska) Summer Arts Festival. In 2016, he co-founded the Idaho Orchestra Institute camp for advanced high school music students. He lives in Boise with his husband and three teenage stepdaughters. Franz said his plans for the coming season include “making our identity clear” with what he terms HIP music: “historically informed performances.” Franz said that in music composed before 1800, musicians were expected to perform improvisations on a bare melody. “I’ll expect our musicians to understand and recreate the performance practices of the period,” he said. To recreate the Baroque sound, the orchestra is in the process of procuring Baroque bows for its string players. Baroque bows are shorter and gently curved, requiring a different bowing technique, and they produce a sound that’s noticeably subtler than modern
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Boise Baroque ushers in the new season with exciting changes
Karim Suleyman: Courtesy / Dan Taylor Monica Huggett: Courtesy Portland Baroque Orchestra / Tori Ava
bows. Playing on these bows will give the audience a closer approximation to what the original music sounded like. Also, the orchestra will buy a second set of bows that they will lend to selected area high school students who will be invited to play in the lobby or onstage with the musicians. In January 2020, Boise Baroque will move to a new home at First Presbyterian in downtown Boise. “Cathedral of the Rockies is beautiful, but with its trancepts and high ceilings, one side of the orchestra had difficulty hearing the other,” explained general manager Hugh Shaber. The renovations at First Presbyterian include expanding the stage area of the altar six to eight feet. There will be built-in risers at the back of the stage area for when the Master Chorale joins the orchestra. Acoustically, the church will have what Franz terms a “live” or “wet” sound, meaning there is reverberation—intentionally part of the Baroque musical experience. For better sight lines, the pews will angle slightly toward the center aisle. In next February’s concert, Monica Huggett, artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra and renowned Baroque violinist, will appear as guest artist and conductor. Having a musician conduct the orchestra was a common practice during the Baroque era and one that we may see more of in Boise Baroque performances. “The musicians key off each other instead of the conductor,” said Carter. “They really have to listen to each other, which is why the acoustics are so important and why we’re looking forward to moving to First Presbyterian.” For the first time, Boise Baroque will partner with Opera Idaho and present Handel’s opera, “Acis and Galatea.” Grammy-Award winning tenor Karim Suleyman, who has charmed international audiences with his riveting stage presence and versatility, will star. And in an effort to reach new audiences in the western end of the Treasure Valley, Boise Baroque will kick off its new season with a Baroque Garden party on Aug. 20 at the Chateau des Fleurs in Eagle. Franz will lead the orchestra in selections from the season’s program, and students from the Eagle Performing Arts Academy will perform Baroque dances.
Karim Suleyman, Grammy-Award winning tenor.
Monica Huggett, artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Members of the Boise Baroque Orchestra.
MORE ABOUT BAROQUE MUSIC The Baroque period was between 1600 and 1750. The music was meant to be an intimate experience between musicians and audience, as opposed to modern compositions, which typically are performed in a large concert hall. Baroque composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Purcell pioneered new styles such as the sonata and concerto. They wrote music that reflected who their patrons were, usually either the Church or wealthy noblemen. Thus, the music was performed in cathedrals or private salons with the audience seated directly in front of the musicians. The orchestras were small and focused on violins and cellos (often including harpsichord and lute) with trumpets, oboes, flutes and bassoons to provide musical contrast.
Rendering of the new venue, First Presbyterian in downtown Boise.
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SUREL'S PLACE An artists’ haven in the Work-Live-Create District
Artists need shelter. Artists need space. Artists need time. Surel's Place, a nonprofit artist-in-residency program, offers artists the gift of all three. — Surel’s Place website
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urel Mitchell was a self-taught visual artist whose legacy to Boise was an arts community that was richer for her efforts: she helped the Boise Gallery of Art mature into an art museum, she was a member of the Boise City and Garden City Arts Commissions, and she participated in numerous community art projects at a time when Boise was just beginning to emerge as a vibrant arts center in the Northwest. But Mitchell’s most enduring contribution is Surel’s Place, a Garden City refuge for the artists-in-residence who spend 30 days in splendid solitude to pursue their art without interruption. “The unfettered time you get there is really valuable,” said singer/songwriter Reeb Willms who was the Artist-in-Residence last February. “Your
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days are your own, and it’s up to you to create a structure to impose on yourself. My goal was to write songs. I was worn out from touring where it’s hard to find space for yourself and to be creative. I wrote 12 or 13 songs while I was there, and established a creative practice I didn’t have before. When I got home, I jumped back into touring but now I have a weekly writing date with a couple of girlfriends. It feels good to have a creative routine!” Surel’s Place is in what was once Mitchell’s home, a modern living and studio space she built in 1998 before Garden City became gentrified. After her death in 2011, Mitchell’s friend and artist Karen Bubb and her daughter Rebecca Mitchell Kelada established Surel’s Place in her honor. Kelada became the founding executive director. Their vision was to offer artists “the kind of support they deserve,” as well as interaction between the artists and the community. The artists typically present a public workshop and then an exhibition or performance of their work at the end of their residency. Residencies are open to artists of all genres, from musicians to visual artists. Matthew Gray Palmer is a visual artist who recently completed a commission of life-sized bronze hippos for the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. While at Surel’s Place last spring, he tasked himself with creating 132 pieces in 20 days. The works comprised a mixture of charcoal drawings, acrylic paintings, and sculptures of sticks and twigs gathered during his walks along the banks of the Boise River. “I set it up to put pressure and discipline on myself,” Palmer said. “None of my work was intended to be
finished work. It was about process, getting out of the mind crunch. It gave me a concentrated and powerful sense of being alive!” Palmer explained that he was able to actually have a relationship with his internal critic and collaborate with it, something every creative person can appreciate. “My only job was to show up and work—that’s all I had to do. It was like a living meditation. I had moments of fun and joy … without the pressure of being successful.” Surel’s Place is closed to the public in order to “maintain the sanctity of the artist’s experience,” said executive director Jessi Boyle. However, since interaction between artists and the community is one of the core values of the organization, there are plenty of opportunities to immerse in creativity. “I think people will be surprised and pleased at the experiences we provide,” said Boyle. “We do popup shops, house concerts, art events from local artists and arts organizations, and more.” During ArtBike tours, participants bike to visit local artists and makers— such as Susan Valliquette, Western Collective Beer, and Kay Seurat—in what Garden City has deemed its LiveWork-Create District. “First Fridays” occur every other month between April and December, and like “First Thursdays” in downtown Boise, are a bustling, lively mix of artists’ studios, artisans, restaurants and wineries open to the public. “When I was there, I felt very welcomed by the community,” said Willms. “Wherever I went, people came up to me and expressed appreciation for me being there and for the community benefits this residency brings. That is so cool!”
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Clockwise from left: Surel’s Place in Garden City; participants in a clowning workshop by artist-inresidence Aubrey Clindenist; Reeb Willms conducting a harmony singing workshop; Matthew Gray Palmer's final exhibition.
Photos: Courtesty Surel’s Place / Winston C. Mitchell
THE RETURN OF SHRINKY DINKS Remember Shrinky Dinks, the fun craft toy from the 1970s? One took sheets of colored plastic paper, baked them in the oven and turned them into toys and jewelry. Founding Executive Director Rebecca Mitchell Kelada took the idea and turned it into art for an annual fundraising event each September for Surel’s Place. “It’s kitschy, it’s cool and in the hands of the right person, you get amazing results,” Kelada said in 2015. “And it’s a fun way to showcase creativity. I want people to know that Surel’s Place is a serious arts organization, but we also have a sense of humor.”
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Traveling the Globe in the Treasure Valley A highlight on international cuisine By Emilee Mae Struss
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f you spend any time in Downtown Boise, chances are you’ve seen Meredith Stead, dressed in high heels and business attire, cruising around on an e-scooter. Culture. It’s a hub for belonging. An unspoken code of respect. A rhythm for life. Many international families have relocated to the Treasure Valley. Some to find refuge, others simply to experience something new. Because of this global migration to the Treasure TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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Valley, landlocked Boise is garnering a terrestrial taste from places far, far away. Along with the infusion of diverse languages, these individuals are also bringing their culture’s most exotic and sought-after flavors. French, Asian, Persian, Indian, African and Oceania influences have moved in to the Treasure Valley. One of the newest international restaurants to open features authentic
cuisine from New Zealand. However, it’s a concept many Americans need some warming up to before noon. Kiwi Shake & Bake on 8th street in Boise offers 22 flavors of meat pies. American’s understanding of meat pies extends not far beyond Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pies. Imagine that—but all natural, fresh baked, and with more flavors. And covered with 86 delicate puff pastry layers on top instead of one thick mass of a crust.
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Shrimp Kahari, Taj Mahal
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Chicken and softened cream cheese with bacon. Savory steak and melted cheddar cheese in a sea of gravy. A veggie option with broccoli, carrots, silverbeet, celery, lentils, potatoes, onions and leeks cooked into a creamy homemade white sauce. And time. A whole lot of time. Because there’s a fine line between getting those 86 puff pastry layers just right and just … not so right. The amount of fat and the temperature of the water must be perfect in order to create the best pastry. They roll out and fold each layer, and then let them rest. The key thing, says co-owner Katie Munro, is the amount of time you let each layer rest. Katie and her husband, Chris Munro, traveled to Boise for sprint boat racing and stayed for the kind people. “The people in Boise are similar to home,” Katie Munro said. “They’re friendly, laid back and not scared to try something new.” The Munros may enjoy the culture of Boise, but they are trying to change one little thing: the understanding of meat pie travel-ability. Katie Munro says customers don’t need to carve out an hour of their day to come in, sit down, and eat a meat pie. Although, they love visitors who hang out for a bit, there are other options. Stop by, snag a pie, and be on your way with a savory pastry to go.
A 10-minute walk north on 8th Street from Kiwi Shake & Bake will take you to an elevator in the heart of downtown. Ride up to the second level, walk under the elegant archway and enter Taj Mahal. Here you will find authentic Indian cuisine. The owners, Sohail and Fasha Ishaq, are from Pakistan and take it upon themselves to educate their guests on the culture of Southern Asia. It’s like entering a palace. Energizing background music sings from wind instruments, deep hand drum sounds, and bowed string instruments. The owners take pride in making the Taj Mahal feel like home— and sharing free meals with those who cannot afford one. “Even if man has no money,” owner Sohail Ishaq said, “I feed him.” They have a selection of rich curry bowls such as the Makhini (butter) Curry Bowl. It’s thick with a red curry sauce and fenugreek leaves, brought to life with a mixture of spices. Indian cuisine is largely about a variety of earthy, bitter spices. The spices are bright with mustard yellow, sunset orange and sage green colors. The Taj Mahal also offers a whole section of traditional oven-baked flatbread called Nawn. The Peshawri Nawn has almonds and raisons baked inside making it sweet, nutty, and perfectly puffy.
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Meatloaf Wellington from locally sourced meat and vegetables, Locavore.
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Rice is another staple for Indian cuisine. Biriyani is a mixed rice dish with robust Indian spices, local meat, and bright vegetables. They also have a stocky vegan section with options such as the Baingan Bharta dish, an eggplant baked in a tandoor, and sautéed in a ginger tomato reduction. Visiting the Taj Mahal is more than just eating at a restaurant. They say their number one mission is to make guests feel at home. If you take the time to visit, you’ll understand just how important that mission really is to them. There’s a common theme among most of the international restaurants in the Treasure Valley: the importance of high-quality ingredients. Le Coq d’Or, soon to be renamed Roghani, in Eagle, places the upmost importance on using the finest wine from their familyowned vineyard and pulling vegetables from their back-patio garden. Walking into Roghani, which is inside the Chateau des Fleurs event venue, brings you to the pristine historical sights of Europe. Spotless marble floors lead through a sunlit TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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hallway displaying old English photos of women in renaissance inspired dresses. Soft Italian music and crystal chandeliers create an atmosphere of attention to detail and an invitation to relax. Executive Chef Richard Jimenez has traveled around the world and mastered the art of mixing global cooking techniques. “Food is a language of love to me,” Chef Jimenez said. He doesn’t have recipes; he cooks until he is satisfied with how the flavors mirror one another. Chef Jimenez uses an old French technique, called “confit de canard, “or duck confit, to cook traditional duck in its own fat mixed with lemon. He uses a Thai inspired mixture of one-part fish sauce, one-part lime juice and a halfpart sugar in a traditional Tom Kha Gai soup to cut through the thickness of the coconut. He then mixes that with aioli, which is an authentic Mediterranean sauce made from garlic and oil. “I want people to experience something that is not only beautiful but loaded with flavors and with multiple techniques,” Jimenez said. “I want
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people to stop what they’re doing and recognize what they’re eating.” Jimenez isn’t the only chef in town who has discovered the power in mixing cultures. Locavore in Boise opened nine years ago with a French spin on the everyday soul food that is American Bistro. The restaurant’s name refers to pulling all, or the majority, of one’s diet from local sources. Locavore Executive Chef, Christine Reid, pulls all of her produce from Global Gardens, a local farm. Global Gardens hires refugees and supports those relocating to Boise with fresh produce and education on how to grow organic produce. Reid says that she loves meeting the farmers face-to-face and learning about different African vegetables, such as a leafy green called Mchicha, an African superfood. Locavore is serious about shopping local; they get their meat and eggs from Malheur River Meats and fish from the Snake River in Hagerman. And Reid’s cooking techniques, just like all of the other chefs named above, are inspired by family. Her recipes, if she follows one, come from her grandfather, who owned four restaurants in California. No matter where these restaurants hail from, or where their handwritten recipes were first written, the pleasure of a chef is to make their guests feel at home. And to wrap around the globe with one heart-warming taste of belonging.
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Rhogani pulls vegetables from their back-patio garden for their globally inspired dishes.
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Dining A Brief Guide to the Valley’s Best Eateries
Idaho and Northwest influences, including locally sourced produce, meats, fresh fish and more. Plus, enjoy three free hours of valet parking when you dine. Reservations recommended. 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, (208) 333-8002
Fork One of the many perks of a bustling city is a vibrant and eclectic dining scene. Boise is no exception. It seems new and inventive eateries are popping up every day. To help you navigate the many options, we’ve put together a quick guide to some of the best places for food and drink. For a look at full menus and more in-depth coverage of the dining scene, check out territory-mag.com/dining.
With ingredients sourced from local Boise and Northwest farmers, ranchers, bakers, distillers, brewers and cheese makers, Fork’s seasonal menu is fresh and innovative— perfect comfort food for lunch or dinner. Crafted cocktails and a full wine list complement the menu. 199 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 287-1700
Goodwood Barbecue Company Focused on fresh food made from scratch daily and centered on the unique style of closed-pit cooking, Goodwood Barbecue Company gets rave reviews and is fun for the whole family! 7849 W. Spectrum St., Boise, (208) 658-7173 1140 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, (208) 884-1021
Grit American Cuisine american/regional NW
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Celebrated chef John Berryhill presents his energetic and Slightly Southern dining in the heart of downtown Boise, featuring 28 wines by the glass, an extensive wine list and full bar. Don’t miss the leather lounge and fireplace. 121 N. 9th St. B, Boise, (208) 387-3553
Boise Fry Company Named the Best Fries in America by the Food Network, Yahoo!, Travel & Leisure and MSN, this local hot spot is a must visit! They strive to keep all ingredients (and the process) green, natural and sustainable, and each signature item has been meticulously researched and made by hand.
Chef Paul Faucher and Porterhouse Market’s Dave Faulk join forces to create fresh, seasonal dishes that feature ingredients from Idaho farmers and producers. The gas-fired pizza oven turns out hand tossed pizzas and specialties like house-smoked bacon, ham and pastrami make regular appearances on the rotating menus of handcrafted American cuisine.
Red Feather Lounge Red Feather has been celebrating the modern American lounge since its opening in 2002. Enjoy seasonal American cuisine, fresh interpretations of the classic cocktail, and an atmosphere inspired by a vibe of eternal swank. 246 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 345-1813
Reel Foods Fish Market & Oyster Bar Providing the Boise area with a fine-dining restaurant, quality seafood and other gourmet treasures—soups, sauces, spices, condiments and sides. Reel Foods serves soups and oysters to eat in on the covered patio or for take-away from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Soups include clam chowder, fisherman’s stew and seasonal specialties such as blue crab bisque and cioppino. 611 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, (208) 342-2727
State & Lemp State & Lemp offers a dynamic, prix-fixe menu in a contemporary atmosphere Wednesday through Saturday. Relationships built with local farmers, ranchers and artisans lead to thoughtful, creative dishes that showcase the highest quality productions that Idaho and the Pacific Northwest have to offer. 2870 W. State St., Boise, (208) 429-6735
The Tavern at Bown Crossing
Locally imagined and seasonally inspired cuisine served in a funky modern-rustic space anchored by a turn-of-the-century brick wall. A full offering of classically crafted cocktails complements an eclectic wine list.
A unique dining experience offering sushi, USDA prime grade steaks, daily seafood specials, burgers, sandwiches and salads. Full bar with an extensive wine list, great classic cocktails, sake and draught beers. Happy Hour is Monday – Saturday. Brunch is served on Sundays from an a la carte menu, from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Tables range from higher tables in the bar area with an energetic atmosphere, or booths, and a quieter area with lower tables. Call for your large party or catering needs.
211 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 342-1142
3111 S. Bown Way, Boise, (208) 345-2277
360 S. Eagle Rd., Eagle, (208) 576-6666
Juniper
204 N. Capital Blvd., Boise, (208) 949-7523
Capital Cellars Awarded the Wine Spectator "Award of Excellence" in 2016, Capital Cellars serves Boise’s best business breakfast and lunch, as well as featuring an elegant dinner menu that changes seasonally. 110 S. 5th St., Boise, (208) 344-9463
Cottonwood Grille Seasonal Northwest fare, farm-fresh wild game, fine wines and classic cocktails served in a rustic setting along the greenbelt. 913 W. River St., Boise, (208) 333-9800
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Trillium Restaurant— american/regional NW Located in The Grove Hotel, Trillium offers exquisite dining in an elegant but relaxed atmosphere. Executive Chef Chris Hain has developed a new American menu that favors classic tastes and chic presentations, allowing the food — comprising fresh seafood, choice meats, and local organic produce — to shamelessly take center stage. Trillium is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Barrelhouse Pub and Grill A unique and casual dining experience, Barrelhouse offers a relaxed environment with delicious pub fare. Serving more than 22 rotating taps of handcrafted beers and hard ciders, with a special emphasis given to Treasure Valley breweries.
regional NW Exciting dining at an affordable price, the Tavern at Bown Crossing can satisfy your tastebuds—whether you are craving a perfectly cooked USDA prime grade steak, hand-rolled sushi or a selection from its creative list of made-to-order salads crafted with the freshest ingredients, the Tavern has you covered. A full bar with an extensive wine list, great classic cocktails, sake and draught beers ensures everybody is happy!
5181 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, (208) 376-4200
Bittercreek Alehouse The Bittercreek Alehouse serves exceptional beers, ciders and ales on tap, alongside tasty bites. Don't miss the Low Power Happy Hour—every weekday from 3-5:30 p.m., when the management unplugs and turns down the lights to reduce their energy footprint, serving and drinking by candlelight in honor of the planet. Romantic and earth-friendly. 246 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 345-1813
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Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill The concept is centered around fictional founders Ling, a firecracker of a gal from Shanghai, and Louie, an All-American guy from Toledo, Ohio, who meet, fall in love and share their passion for food by opening an Asian restaurant that’s “Not for Boring People.” The result is an energetic atmosphere, critically acclaimed cuisine and innovative drink menu. It’s “modern Asian meets American comfort”! 3210 E. Louise Dr., Meridian, (208) 888-5000
Mai Thai
at three locations in the same complex— Shige Express, Shige Steakhouse and Shige Japanese Cuisine. 100 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 338-8423
Superb Sushi After a successful launch in the Crane Creek Market on Bogus Basin Road, Superb Sushi opened a downtown location serving the “most unique sushi in Boise” to loyal customers who return time after time. 280 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 385-0123
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Bodovino A total wine experience, with over 144 wines by the glass and over 600 wines by the bottle. Now with two locations—downtown Boise and a new location in The Village at Meridian. 404 S. 8th St., Boise, (208) 336-VINO (8466) 363 E. Monarch Sky Lane, Meridian, (208) 887-5369
Donut Daze Enjoy a new and unique experience in Boise: Donut Daze. Serving donuts and fried chicken in a 1960s décor and atmosphere. Monday through Wednesday 7 a.m. – midnight; Thursday through Sunday 7 a.m. – 3 a.m.
10 Barrel Brewing Company
160 N. 8th St. , Boise, (208) 576-1886
Reef
1759 W. Idaho St., Boise, (208) 344-8424
This 20 barrel brewhouse and our hopking headbrewer Shawn Kelso make this brewpub "the hoppiest place in Idaho" and a hub for all your pre-game warmups and postadventure hunger, and quaffing needs. 830 W. Bannock St., Boise, (208) 344-5870
Mount Everest Momo Café
Amsterdam Lounge
A unique dining experience that brings diners a taste of the rich culinary heritage of the Himalayas. A delicious variety of recipes, painstakingly gathered from the royal kitchens of Nepal to the swept shores of South India, offer a truly delightful Nepali experience. Himalayan, Nepali, Tibetan and Indian food is carefully prepared from scratch.
Amsterdam is a mixology lounge specializing in craft cocktails and small plates, centrally located in historic downtown Boise, where great conversation is the priority. Women & Whiskey every Wednesday night—ladies receive half-price whiskey all night, featured whiskey is half price for everyone, and free tastings are from 8–11 p.m. Friday happy hour, with half-priced food and drinks, 4-7 p.m. 609 W. Main St., Boise, (208) 345-9515
Unique and authentic dishes from the four regional cuisines of Thailand are complemented by an exceptional wine list and handcrafted cocktails. It is like stepping into a slice of Thailand, right here in Boise.
2144 S. Broadway Ave., Boise, (208) 342-1268
Pho Nouveau Bistro Contemporary Vietnamese comfort food featuring spring rolls, green papaya salad, rice plates, summer noodle bowls (bun) and the always-popular pho. 780 W. Idaho St., Boise, (208) 367-1111
Shige Japanese Cuisine Celebrating over 20 years downtown, Shige Japanese Cuisine is still a local favorite serving up sushi and Japanese specialties
Bardenay The perfect place to meet friends or colleagues for drinks and appetizers. Stop in for lunch or dinner and enjoy Bardenay’s casual Northwestern-style cuisine with cocktails handcrafted with freshly squeezed juices and their signature distilled spirits—currently vodka, rum and gin, with whiskey in the barrel. 610 W. Grove St., Boise, (208) 426-0538 155 E. Riverside Dr., Eagle, (208) 938-5093
A tropical escape in the heart of downtown, featuring the city’s best rooftop patio, live music and exotic food and drink. 105 S. 6th St., Boise, (208) 287-9200
The Hyde House There’s something for everybody on this eclectic menu, where delicious dishes are handcrafted to complement local brews and wines and taps rotate daily! 1607 N. 13th St., Boise, (208) 387-HYDE (4933)
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Bar Gernika Traditional Basque dishes, pub fare and an extensive beer selection served in a laid-back space that has become a local institution. 202 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, (208) 344-2175
The Basque Market Tapas, paella and specialties such as bocadillos, plus cooking classes, wine tastings and a full Basque food market. 608 W. Grove St., Boise, (208) 433-1208 SUMMER 2019
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Epi's—A Basque Restaurant
Express Café
Chris and Gina opened Epi’s in memory of their grandmother, Epi Inchausti. This quaint dinnerhouse features food reminiscent of the Basque country, giving you a delightful experience for your evening.
If it's breakfast food you want, Express Café has it. It's always busy, but worth the wait, and feels like going home for breakfast with family—with large portions, friendly cooks and wait staff. You won't be disappointed with the great-tasting, fresh, plentiful and reasonably priced menu items, and the place offers a small-town-diner feel that is cozy and welcoming.
1115 N. Main St., Meridian, (208) 884-0142
cafés, delis & coffee
400 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, (208) 888-3745
Bacon What could be better than a restaurant named Bacon? … One that serves five kinds of bacon. BACON, a Southern breakfast and lunch bistro conceived by celebrity chef and restaurateur John Berryhill, features coffee, a full bar and the awesome Bacon Bloody Mary!
Flying M Coffeehouse Flying M roasts its own beans, using a smallbatch drum roaster, so coffee is always fresh and delicious. A full complement of madefrom-scratch baked items are handcrafted each morning by master bakers and served with a smile in this bustling downtown coffeehouse that has become a local favorite.
121 N. 9th St., Boise, (208) 387-3553
500 W. Idaho St., Boise, (208) 345-4320
Big City Coffee & Café
Goldy’s Breakfast Bistro
Serving breakfast and lunch all day, along with espresso, coffees and in-house baked goods. Try the pumpkin chai muffin, cherry pie scone, or homemade biscuits and gravy with fresh buttermilk biscuits. 1416 Grove St., Boise, (208) 345-3145
Goldy’s opened in 1999 in the heart of downtown Boise. Quality made-to-order breakfast has made Goldy’s one of the best restaurants in the Treasure Valley—Voted Best Local Breakfast for 18 years! 108 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, (208) 345-4100
Big City Coffee & Café— cafés, delis & coffee Perfectly sweetened lattes, giant breakfasts and massive pastries. If you you love a good cup of Joe; stop here and enjoy the thoughtful space that encourages communal dining and offers a feeling of small-town neighborliness.
District Coffeehouse A nonprofit created to support an orphanage network called Send Hope, District Coffeehouse focuses on freshly roasted, carefully crafted coffee with a mission. Each batch is roasted in micro-batches twice a week using 100% Arabica beans. 219 N. 10th St., Boise, (208) 343-1089 TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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Le Coq d’Or An unforgettable and artistic dining experience inspired by authentic European countryside cuisine and farm-to-table French cuisine and modern European dishes. Open for dinner only, Tuesday through Saturday. 176 S. Rosebud Ln., Eagle, (208) 947-2840
Petite 4 Bringing French bistro-inspired dishes to the Boise Bench, Petite 4 is offering dinner service Tuesday through Thursday 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. 4 N. Latah St., Boise, (208) 345-1055
Pie Hole Late night dining in a funky space, serving thin crust New York-style pizza. Pie Hole has become a local institution. Open all day and late night. 205 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 344-7783 1016 Broadway Ave., Boise, (208) 424-2225
Richard’s Café Vicino
Founded by husband-and-wife-team Moshit Mizrachi-Gabbitas and Chuck Gabbitas, JanJou was opened in 2008 as a wholesale bakery selling mostly cookies to local shops. A retail bakery and full cafe was opened in 2013—with the name as homage to Moshit's mother, whose nickname was Janjou.
Vicino is Italian for neighborhood. Seasonal menus take advantage of locally sourced produce, fresh fish, meat and game. Chef Richard Langston and his staff share a culinary philosophy that celebrates the integrity of ingredients and prepares simply to showcase the natural flavors of the products. The end result is delicious awardwinning cuisine that receives rave reviews.
1754 W. State St., Boise, (208) 297-5853
1808 W. Fort St., Boise, (208) 472-1463
Wild Root Café and Market
The Wylder
Husband-and-wife-team, chef Michael Trebbi and his wife, Anne-Marie, serve up breakfast and lunch fare with artistic flare and a local, seasonal, farm-to-table focus. The presentation is elegant and the food is fresh, delicious and artfully prepared by hand.
Enjoy handcrafted, slow-batch pizza with soul. Experience full-service dining, craft cocktails, and suppers. With five styles of red pizza and five types of white, pies are not the only reason this restaurant is always buzzing. There’s a kale Caesar salad that has spawned regulars, as well as a cauliflower dish that makes even the most carnivorous diners ponder plantbased diets. Now open daily for lunch.
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all made from scratch with only the freshest ingredients. Boise’s favorite hole-in-the-wall local Italian is open for lunch and dinner daily.
276 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 856-8956
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Alavita Fresh seasonal ingredients inform the locally inspired Italian cuisine at this traditional Italian osteria (an Italian joint). Creative craft cocktails and an extensive wine list complement dishes inspired by regional ingredients, making Alavita a great place for celebrating life with good friends, business associates or family. 807 W. Idaho St., Boise, (208) 780-1100
Luciano’s Italian Restaurant Authentic Italian food in a casual, familyfriendly atmosphere that features classic Tuscan-inspired cuisine, with a few surprises—
501 West Broad St., Boise, (208) 209-3837
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Andrade’s An eclectic atmosphere that features more than 100 menu items from the heart of Mexico. Offering great food, great service and great value, Andrade's is known as a local's favorite. Owner Javier Andrade offers a glimpse into the cuisine of a pueblo rich in history, culture, and traditions—with pride in every dish. 4903 Overland Rd., Boise, (208) 344-1234
Taste
Calle 75 Calle 75 Street Tacos is the newest member of elite restaurants in the nation to create authentic corn tortillas from scratch, using the ancient nixtamalization process. Come enjoy pure authentic Mexican cuisine. 110 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-336-2511 3635 E. Longwing Ln., Meridian, (208) 846-9001
Chapala Traditional Mexican food in a familyfriendly atmosphere offering choices for every taste, and with multiple locations throughout Boise. 1201 S. Vista Ave., Boise, (208) 429-1155
Diablo and Sons
Owyhee Tavern— steak & seafood The Owyhee Tavern, at the corner of 11th and Main, is a welcome addition to the downtown culinary scene. The restaurant is owned and operated by Barry Werner and John and Kristy Toth, who also own Tavern at Bown Crossing. The Tavern's location in The Owyhee exemplifies the “Work, Meet and Live” ethos of the building. Enjoy excellent food and a great atmosphere in historic Boise.
Enjoy some of the city’s best tacos that are rotated with the seasons. Diablo and Sons source from all local farms. 246 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 429-6340
The Funky Taco
Bonefish Grill
Owyhee Tavern
801 W. Bannock St., Boise, (208) 991-4106
Full of fresh and innovative dishes, the Bonefish Grill crafts a complete dining experience—from customized pairings and craft cocktails, daily specials and a menu that specializes in seasonal fresh fish prepared with elegant simplicity over a wood-burning grill. Taste today's fresh catch. 855 W. Broad St., Boise, (208) 433-1234
Madre
Chandlers Steakhouse
Owyhee Tavern opened in October 2016 bringing a new vibe to the downtown area. Located in the historic Owyhee building, this steakhouse offers American Wagyu, USDA prime grade steaks, organic salmon, fresh ahi, and oysters on the half shell. Specialties also include kung pao calamari, Kobe fondue and ahi poke salad—and don’t forget to ask for a side of cheddar tots or Brussels sprouts. $5 Happy Hour, Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m.
We are The Funky Taco. We create food within a “farm to funky fare” framework. Our emphasis is on Asian, Indian, Mexican, and Americana ethnicities / styles of food. We religiously support our local farmers and our menu selections will morph and change with the seasonal yields.
Madre Boutique Taqueria is committed to establishing a new category of neighborhood restaurant that will maintain the classic attributes of comfort and affordability and continuously strive to deliver superior food and service. As part of our effort to meet these goals, we aim to bring people closer to the production of their food by incorporating regional, sustainably-grown ingredients whenever possible. 1034 S. La Pointe St., Boise, (208)-432-1100
Matador Popular Mexican cuisine in an "Old World" atmosphere of dark walnut, intricate ironwork and deep, roomy booths. Matador features the city’s widest selection of tequila and a spacious outdoor patio during the summer months. 215 N. 8th St., Boise, (208) 342-9988
steak & seafood
Barbacoa Upscale South American steak house featuring tableside guacamole, fresh seafood, chicken mole and certified Angus beef steak served on Argentina ironwood. Specialty crafted cocktails, from margaritas to mojitos, and an extensive wine list complement every meal. 276 Bobwhite Ct., Boise, (208) 338-5000
Prime cuts of beef and fresh caught fish, combined with local homegrown ingredients and an extensive wine list, are served in a swanky, hip setting. The Lounge at Chandlers features live jazz nightly and a martini bar— home of the Ten Minute Martini. Social Hour is Monday-Friday, 4-6 p.m. 981 W. Grove St., Boise, (208) 383-4300
Fresh Off the Hook A little slice of Seattle mixed with a dash of San Francisco, add a pinch of Alaska and toss it together with the flavors of Key West and you’ll enjoy an incredible seafood experience—right here in Boise. Bright and cheery, soaked in the colors of the ocean, Fresh Off the Hook owner David Bassiri is committed to delivering service and freshness. Guaranteed! 507 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, (208) 322-9224 401 S. 8th St., Boise, (208) 343-0220
Lucky Fins Seafood Grill Welcome to a new way to experience seafood—where great quality and affordability come together! Daily chalkboard specials are innovative and creative, complemented by a menu of diverse flavors influenced by Asian, Mexican and Northwest cuisines. And don’t miss sushi prepared by one of the best sushi chefs in the Treasure Valley! 801 W. Main St., Boise, (208) 888-3467 1441 N. Eagle Rd., Meridian, (208) 888-3467
1109 Main St., Boise, (208) 639-0440
Stagecoach Inn Stagecoach Inn opened in 1959. A Treasure Valley favorite dinner restaurant and bar famous for its hand-breaded bar prawns, prime rib and banana cream pie. Folks near and far make the historic Stagecoach their favorite destination restaurant. 3132 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, (208) 342-4161
Ruth’s Chris Steak House Featuring Ruth’s special 500˚ sizzling plates and an award-winning wine list perfect for a romantic dinner, business meeting or private party. Happy Hour, seven days a week, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. 800 W. Main St., Boise, (208) 426-8000
The BrickYard Touted as a steak house, The BrickYard has other notable features that are bound to pique your epicurean interest, such as our tableside salad service and our wide range of entrée selections from Idaho Wagyu Kobe beef to crab and scallop topped halibut. Open for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour, 3-6 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10-11 p.m. Dueling Piano Show, Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. – close. 601 Main St., Boise, (208) 287-2121 SUMMER 2019
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Latin American icon Ruben Blades was at the center of the New York Salsa revolution in the 1970s. His socially charged lyrics and explosive rhythms brought Salsa music to an international audience. Critically acclaimed director Abner Benaim takes us on a journey through Ruben's 50-year career, revealing that Ruben might still have both musical and political ambitions. JUMP, 1000 West Myrtle St. 7 p.m. JUNE 21–23 — World Village Fest Cultural and music enthusiasts from all over Idaho, the Northwest, and beyond are invited to attend this free, family-focused event to enjoy vibrant traditional and contemporary performances, workshops, art, film and an international market featuring members of the
Freewrite Nite
Unread Stories Club hosts monthly writing events in the Boise area. Freewrite Nites are open, informal gatherings for writers to talk about writing, give and receive feedback, or just sit quietly and get stuff done. Coiled Wine Bar, 813 W. Bannock St. 6 p.m.
Treasure Valley’s multinational community. Cecil D. Andrus Park, 601 W. Jefferson St., 4-10 p.m. JULY 2 — Improv Comedy Join Liquid Laughs every first Tuesday of the month for improv comedy night hosted by, and featuring Boise's Megan Bryant, and a pack of her hilarious improv buddies. It's an explosion of “short-form” scenes, gimmick games, and other “variety show” style bits that are always fun, fresh, and engaging. Liquid Laughs, 405 S. 8th St., Boise. 8 p.m. liquidboise.com JULY 2, AUG. 6, SEPT. 3 —
Actors Forum
Come see local actors of all ages, abilities, experience levels share their theatrical talents! Not for actors only! Anyone can attend or pre register to perform a prepared monologue, show tune or short scene. Send an e-mail to actorsforumis@gmail.com or sign up at the door. Elks Club, 6608 W. Fairview Ave. 7 p.m.
JULY 21 — Golden Girls Live Since 2006, San Francisco drag legends Heklina, D'Arcy Drollinger, Matthew Martin and Holotta Tymes have become a Bay Area Christmas tradition, with The Golden Girls LIVE playing to thousands of fans at the historic Victoria Theater every holiday season. The Girls are taking the show on the road and performing some of their favorite episodes! The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 6–9 p.m. egyptiantheatre.net JULY 30 – AUG. 4 — ‘Les Miserables’ Don’t’ miss the Broadway production of the Victor Hugo classic coming to Boise’s Morrison Center. 2201 Cesar Chavez Ln. 7:30 p.m. morrisoncenter.com SEPT. 6-8 — BAM’s Art in the Park The Boise Art Museum’s Art in the Park openair festival held on the weekend following Labor Day provides visitors of all ages and interests with the opportunity to meet more than 250 artists and purchase their works. During the three-day event, BAM presents a variety of contemporary arts and crafts along with an exceptional array of live entertainment, park performances, wonderful food and hands-on activities for children. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd. 10 a.m. boiseartmuseum.org
Music JUNE 12 —
Lany World Tour
Revolution Concert House and Event Center, 4983 N. Glenwood St., Garden City. 8 p.m.
Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 7:30 p.m. knittingfactory.com JUNE 21 —
Anberlin with The Mighty
Idaho Botanical
Indigo Girls
Revolution Concert House and Event Center, 4983 N.
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Glenwood St., Garden City. 8 p.m. JUNE 30 —
Clint Black
Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 7 p.m. knittingfactory.com
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Carson McHone
Neurolux Lounge, 111 N. 11th St., Boise. 7:30 p.m. neurolux.com JULY 7 —
Electric Six
Neurolux Lounge, 111 N. 11th St., Boise. 7:30 p.m. neurolux.com
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Sports & Outdoors
Dwight Yoakam: Randee St. Nicholas
JUNE 28-29 – Road to X Games World-class skateboarders and BMX riders will be back in Boise for the third consecutive Road to X Games: Boise Park Qualifier. You won’t want to miss these amazing athletes compete for an invitation to X Games Minneapolis. The 2019 Boise Park Qualifier will feature three disciplines: Men’s Skateboard Park, Women’s Skateboard Park and BMX Park. Rhodes Skate Park, 1555 W. Front St. xgames.cityofboise.org JULY 13 – Twilight Criterium The top women’s and men’s pro cycling teams in the nation and the best local and national amateurs are prepped to turn the streets of Downtown Boise into a highspeed, high-stakes race course. The Twilight Fan Expo in Cecil D. Andrus/Capitol Park hosts food, beverage, vendor and cycling organization booths, and gives fans a front row seat to the best of bike racing, Boise style! 101 S. Capitol Blvd. All day.
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Garden Ambassador Tours
Learn about Idaho Botanical Garden history from its transformation from prison grounds to today’s beautiful plant displays, during free tours on select Thursdays and Saturdays, May through September. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Rd. 10 a.m. idahobotanicalgarden.org AUG. 2-3 — Goathead Fest For years, the Goathead Monster has plagued the bicycle community. Rides have been ruined, tires have been trashed, and punctures have permeated our pedal powered lives. But now the monster’s had a change of heart. Instead of popping tires on Aug.2 and 3, Boise’s most despised invasive specie will be giving back to Boise’s bicycle nonprofits and lending its hand in transforming Boise into the Bicycle Capital of America. Cecil D. Andrus Park, 601 W. Jefferson St. AUG. 10-11 — Bam Jam 3 on 3 The summer version of the BAM Jam basketball tournament has a two-day format that allows for a three-game guarantee. Additionally, Saturday features a special
Slam Dunk and 3-Point Challenge on the steps of the Idaho State Capitol Building. This is the only event of its kind in the entire United States. The streets of downtown Boise. bamjamboise.com AUG. 19-25 — Albertsons Boise Open Watch some of golf’s biggest talents compete at the Hillcrest Country Club in this PGA tournament. Hillcrest Country Club, 4610 W. Hillcrest Dr. All day. albertsonsboiseopen.com
Food and Drink JUNE 6 - OCT. — Boise Farmers Market At the Boise Farmers Market you will find fresh local seasonal vegetables and fruit, many types of locally raised protein, breads and pastries, honey, jams and sauces, freshroasted coffee, and a delicious selection of ready-to-eat foods. 500 Shoreline Dr. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. theboisefarmersmarket.com JUNE 8 – NOV. — Capital City Market At The Capital City Public Market you’ll meet Treasure Valley farmers who can tell you the best way to choose a ripe ear of corn, skilled artists who burn the midnight oil in their studios yet rise with the sun to display their handiwork, and talented bakers who can create the most robust of bread loaves yet coax a fine, flaky crust from each handmade pastry. 8th and Idaho streets. Every Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. JUNE 8 – OCT. 5 —
Eagle Saturday Market
The Eagle Saturday Market is a handmade market located in the heart of downtown Eagle in Heritage Park. Stroll through the park and find an array of arts and crafts along with local produce, herbs and flowers, woodwork, specialty food items and freshly prepared food. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle. Every Saturday, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Twilight Criterium
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Robert Cray Band
The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 8 p.m. egyptiantheatre.net JULY 11 —
Taj Mahal
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Dwight Yoakam
Ford Idaho Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa. 8 p.m. Fordidahocenter.com
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Deerhunter
Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. knittingfactory.com JULY 22 —
Still Woozy
Neurolux Lounge, 111 N. 11th St., Boise. 7:30 p.m. neurolux.com
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Lord Huron and Shakey Graves
Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 6:30 p.m. bo.knittingfactory.com AUG. 3 —
Stef Chura
Neurolux Lounge, 111 SUMMER 2019
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America’s most vibrant downtowns. 190 8th St. 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. JULY 2 — Boise Scavenger Hunt The capital of Idaho has treasures at every turn. On this fun-filled Boise scavenger hunt, we make a loop around the city center in search of iconic landmarks, great green spaces and public art. 700 W. Jefferson St. 8 a.m.
Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Festivals and Events
Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Park Dr. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. zooboise.org
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Each year, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival puts on riveting drama in a spectacular amphitheater setting. The lineup this year includes productions of “Taming of the Shrew,” “Witness for the Prosecution,” “The Music Man,” “Julius Ceaser,” and “Million Dollar Quartet.” 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise. JUNE 6 – DEC. 5 —
First Thursday
Be downtown Boise the First Thursday of each month to experience art, shopping, dining and entertainment in a special and unique way you’ll only find downtown. Our local merchants plan exciting, engaging in-store events including food and beverage tastings, local art exhibits and trunk shows. Downtown Boise, 101 S. Capitol Blvd. 5-9 p.m. JUNE 8 — Zoo Daze This year Zoo Boise is celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
Join the fun this summer for Alive After Five on The Grove Plaza. We will be celebrating 33 years of Boise's favorite free, Summer Concert Series each Wednesday through Aug. 28. The Grove Plaza, 827 W. Main St., Boise. 5-8 p.m. JUNE 15 — World Refugee Day Join us for ethnic food, performances, artisans, and a citizenship ceremony at the internationally celebrated World Refugee Day. This is an opportunity for the community to come together with our newest Idahoans to celebrate their international cultures and contributions to our society. The Grove Plaza, 827 W. Main St., Boise. 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. worldrefugeedayboise.org JUNE 16 — Father’s Day Car Show The 17th Annual Downtown Boise Father’s Day Car Show brings families together to celebrate, relive and create memories, envision a future and enjoy the bounty of one of
JULY 17 — Zoo Boise Expansion Opening Join Zoo Boise for the grand opening of the new Gorongosa National Park exhibit! The new 2.5 acre exhibit will feature a variety of animals that can be seen in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, including wild African dogs, baboons, Nile crocodiles, vervet monkeys, otters, hyenas, warthogs, nyala and many more! The exhibit will also tell the story of the agricultural, medical and education programs that are in place to partner with the local people. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Dr. 12-5 p.m. zooboise.org JULY 26-28 — San Inazio Festival The San Inazio Festival is an annual event to honor St. Ignatius of Loyola, the patron saint of the Basques. It began more than 25 years ago and now thousands come to the Basque Block at the end of every July to see local musicians and dancers as well as Basque sporting events. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St. basquecenter.com Wild African dogs are part of the Gorongosa National Park exhibit, Zoo Boise.
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Lake Street Drive
The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 7 p.m. egyptiantheatre.net
Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 8 p.m. egyptiantheatre.net AUG. 10 — The Nude Party and Pinky Pinky
Steve Earle and the Dukes The Egyptian
The Olympic, 1009 Main St., Boise. 7 p.m. theolympicboise.com
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Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. bo.knittingfactory.com AUG. 22 —
Calexico & Iron Wine
Knitting Factory
Josh Groban
Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. bo.knittingfactory.com AUG. 30 —
Josh Groban
Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 6:30 p.m. bo.knittingfactory.com
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