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A Secret in the Statehouse

10/17/2023

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Did you know you can get a guided tour of Idaho’s Capitol Building? You can request a guided tour—a couple of weeks in advance—by following the instructions here.
 
During a tour I recently participated in, volunteer Tour Guide Jim Clark show us a little secret. That’s Jim, below, holding up a drawer from one of the desks in the Idaho Governor's ceremonial office. He showed us where governors Dirk Kempthorne, Butch Otter, Phil Batt, Jim Risch, John Evans, Brad Little, and Cecil Andrus signed the bottom of the drawer. I'm proud to have known all those men, plus Governor Robert E. Smylie.  
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    Rick Just has been writing about Idaho history since 1989 when he wrote and recorded scripts for the Idaho Centennial Commission’s daily radio program, Idaho Snapshots. One of his Idaho books explores the history of Idaho's state parks: Images of America, Idaho State Parks. Rick also writes a regular column for Boise Weekly.

    Rick does public presentations on Idaho's state park history and the history of the Morrisite war for the Idaho Humanities Council's Speakers Bureau.idahohumanities.org/programs/inquiring-idaho/
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    Check out Rick's history of Idaho State Parks.
    The audio link below is to Rick's Story Story Night set called "Someplace Not Firth"

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