Huckleberries: Skinheads — then and now — make headlines
1,000 protesters parade against the first skinhead conference.
Photo courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Press archives
The national media flock to the Aryan Nations compound to hear Richard Butler and chronicle the skinhead convention.
These North Idaho College students tie an orange ribbon on the student union building to protest the skinhead convention. From left, Pat Kraut, Elaine Wilches-Pena, ASB President Mary Jo Hansen and Doug Hayman.
Real estate broker Gary Schneidmiller stands in a grass field that became Coeur d’Alene Place.
Manager John Freligh of the old Brunswick Café coaches waitresses dressed in Spokane Indians uniforms to promote the Spokane team. Waitresses are, from left, Bonnie Currier, Frances Crider, Babe Williams, queen candidate Pat Stephenson and Sharon Eilers.
Head Start Director Maggie Tallman poses outside the boarded-up Harding School.
About 1,000 local Tea Party members protest on Tax Day 2009.
USMC Staff Sgt. Dustin Pfister assists Ray Garland, a decorated World War II and Korean War veteran, to the edge of Lake Coeur d’Alene to lay a wreath on Memorial Day 2018.
The 100th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birthday April 20, 1989, attracted a circus here.
On Rimrock Road, north of Hayden Lake, the nation’s media flocked to the old Aryan Nations compound to document the first skinhead conference staged by racist Richard Butler.
On the U.S. 95 bike trail, 1,000 protesters, most from out of town, marched for six hours in inclement weather toward Butler’s 20-acre headquarters.
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