Idaho Harvester

Posted on August 2, 2019

Today’s Flowery Friday is a single trillium bloom. The western white trillium is the most widespread trillium in the western states, it can be found from the Pacific Northwest, into California, and inland to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. [Read More]

Posted on August 1, 2019

It’s been exactly one month since Stranger Things 3 came out and these mining photos of a hoist room and ore grinding mill from Hercules Mining Company in North Idaho look strangely similar to the giant laser that the Russians use in Stranger Things 3 to reopen the gate to... [Read More]

Posted on July 30, 2019

Today, we have some fun health facts for you courtesy of the Idaho Potato Museum! Did you know that potatoes are roughly 80% water? Or that a cooked 8-ounce potato only contains 100 calories? How about the fact that potatoes are naturally 99.9% fat free?1 Just a few reasons why... [Read More]

Posted on July 26, 2019

This week several of us in the University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives have been rehousing some materials from Herman Ronnenberg, a beer enthusiast from Troy, ID. It is not uncommon to come across correspondence when going through materials, but we found the perfect addition for Flowery Friday on... [Read More]

Posted on July 23, 2019

Today’s post features a humorous postcard from the 1980s. Although Idaho doesn’t actually grow gigantic potatoes (sadly), it does produce about 13 billion pounds of potatoes each year, supplying roughly one-third of the United States potato crop! We love potatoes so much that Idaho even has a Potato Museum! [Read More]

Posted on July 23, 2019

Apollo 11 return [1] [Read More]

Posted on July 22, 2019

Apollo 11 patch [Read More]

Posted on July 21, 2019

The PDF is not rendering in your browser. Please use the link below to download the PDF. Apollo 11 press release [2] [Read More]

Posted on July 20, 2019

On this day in 1969, man first walked on the moon. Fifty years later we are still fascinated with this great scientific feat. Prior to the moon landing, there was much planning and speculation. This image of the moon landing is an artist’s rendering, it was sent out to the... [Read More]