Micheal Bigley, a member of the Lake Pend Oreille Repertory Theatre, stands by a mural in downtown Sandpoint telling some of the city's early history as he conducted a tour with Chris Corpus of the Bonner County History Museum.
August 6, 2023
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Trails, trials and a little town called Sandpoint
Tours dive into city's rich history
Now the heart of Sandpoint, the Panida wasn't the community's first theater. It wasn't even the second. It was likely the fourth active theater in the city when the Spanish mission-style structure was built for $70,000 in 1927 by F.C. Weskil.