A century of newsprint
KEITH COUSINS/[email protected] | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 1 month AGO
<p>Historian Robert Singletary thumbs through a December 1999 hard-bound volume of The Press Tuesday at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library. Singletary is working with the library as well as the Museum of North Idaho called “Coeur d’Alene in the 20th Century” that included reading 100 years of the local newspaper from January 1, 1900 through December 31, 1999.</p>
<p>The December 1999 volume of the Coeur d’Alene Press includes the final editions of the local newspaper from the 20th Century, which were all read by Robert Singletary.</p>
COEUR d'ALENE - On Thursday night, local historian Robert Singletary will conclude a series of discussions on the history of the city by the lake, entitled "Coeur d'Alene in the 20th Century."
The discussion, which begins at 7 p.m. in the Community Room of the Coeur d'Alene Public Library, will center around the 1990s. Each of the previous talks have focused on one decade of the 20th century.
"When I do these talks, I always want people to think about where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going," Singletary said.
Singletary told The Press on Tuesday that as preparation for the lectures, he read every single issue of the Coeur d'Alene Press on micro-film and in bound volumes at the library.
When asked if anything in particular stood out while he was reading a century's worth of newspapers, Singletary mentioned the expansion of Coeur d'Alene during the first decade of the 1900s.
"That growth was fueled by the timber industry," Singletary said. "How fast the town grew in the first 10 years is almost hard to believe."
Singletary added that the city did not see similar growth until the 1990s and plans on comparing and contrasting the two decades during his discussion.
"The 1990s were an interesting time in Coeur d'Alene," Singletary said. "There were a lot of positive things happening, but the city was also tested a lot as well."
Throughout the event, Singletary said, he will use documents and photos he has saved as a way to illustrate the historical information he found during his research.
The discussion is free to the public and is scheduled to last until 8:30 p.m.
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