Good cheer and happy summer. Despite the heat, smoke, fires, road closures etc., the Friends of Boundary County Historic Places has had a really successful year.

I spent the autumn months of 1953 at Snyder after we folded our Forest Service summer tent camp on Keno Creek. Most of the crew drifted away when college started; Lee Hoglan and Jack Long hung on a little longer, but for the last few weeks I shared one of Snyder’s log bunkhouses with Moses Joseph, who later became Chief of the Kootenai Tribe.