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Mike Jones talks with his son Kyle about his lifelong relationship with Priest Lake. He spent a lot of time with his grandparents Marjorie and Jim Roberts who ran the Leonard Paul Store in Coolin. His father worked for the...

Ellen talks about growing up in Salt Lake City, her family, living in Canyon Rim and building the family cabin.

We talked about her life growing up until now and the best is yet to come for the family!

Lohrenzo answering questions about growing up and other various topics

Kids interview Lloyd

Sam and Barbara came to Northfield in 1971, attracted in large part by the extensive opportunities for taking part in outdoor activities such as hiking, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, and wilderness swimming. They worked together on the many aspects of...

Jan Bastine's family built their cabin at Priest Lake next to Kalispell Creek in 1959. She introduced Paul to the lake and to her rambunctious cabin life in 1964. Jan's father was a softball player and in 1970 started the...

Every year we go to a cabin in the North Georgia Mountains after Christmas

My grandmother and I discussing her childhood and spirituality

My favorite place in the whole world is my cabin up north.

Melvin Roy talked with his son Mark about his Blister Rust camp summer in 1944 when he came to Priest River. As a 15 year old, he took the Empire Builder train from his home in Minneapolis to Priest River....

Earle Ruddach and his wife Judy shared stories about their family time at Priest Lake. Earle's family from Newport acquired a state lot at Cape Horn about 1950. They built their cabin by moving materials from Elkins on a WWII...

Dr. Robert Bond shares Priest Lake stories with his wife Georgene at their cabin on the end of Coolin Bay. Bond talks about his father, Robert Bond, who became the Priest River doctor in 1936, serving the region including home...

Music professor David Low interviews his 97-year old mother Alice Yee about their family relationship with Priest Lake through 60 years of changes. They started camping at Reeder Bay in the early 1950s when it was pretty primitive. They had...

Grandfather Kimball Gillis tells about his travels, camping trips, and outdoor activities which he has continued on with his family.

November 25 2018. At Debbie Fowler’s house.About her life growing up. About how where parents were so wanting her and her twin sister to be different. She told me about her cabin and how she really loved it there.

Max Kendall interviewed his grandfather Ron Walker, a fierce advocate of the Outlet. Ron shared his fishing adventures dating back to when he could rent a cabin for the whole season at Elkins for $500. He lamented decisions that transformed...

Davin Holen (45) speaks with his colleague, Tina Buxbaum (38), about his life journey, his work as a resilience and adaptation faculty member and his observations on building community and preserving natural resources.

I interviewed my dad, Darren Garrison, about his childhood. He told me about how he was a semi-pro BMX racer when he was in high school. He told me about going up to our cabin up north every single weekend...

Summer breaks are typically associated with activities and seeing friends, these are not as easily accomplished while living in an isolated cabin far away from society. On November 26th, 2017 in Los Angeles, California Desi Reed interviewed his father, Christopher...

In this interview, conducted on November 24th, 2017 in Tigard Oregon, Callie Lininger (13) interviews her grandma Patty Parrish(65) about her childhood and family. She shares stories of going to her Cabin with her family and how she met my...

Julia shares her experiences growing up in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and how she ended up living in a cabin in the mountains of Colorado as an adult.

Talking with Chuck about growing up at his family's cabin in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota, the last week before they sell the cabin.

Ronan Rasmussen interviewed his grandfather Gary James about the history of the family cabin on the Outlet at Priest Lake. Gary is a boat builder and passed that history to Ronan. Ronan loves to fishing and they tell fish stories...

Amber Abbas interviews her partner Jamison Warren about his relationship with Priest Lake and the family cabins on Kalispell Bay. He shares his memories of summers with grandparents, uncles and cousins skiing, hiking, and exploring. After his parents decided to...