Above, proposed Front Avenue promenade, overlooking McEuen Field. (Design: Team McEuen)

It might be good at this point in the recall controversy to publish a good historical piece by the Coeur d'Alene Press (January 2011) about McEuen Field, separating fact from fiction. For one thing, you'll discover that the late Mae McEuen never owned a square inch of McEuen Field: "Kids haven't always played ball at McEuen Field. Where diamonds now lie dormant under winter snow, lumber once was milled. The property has been home to horse racing, overflow barracks from Farragut Naval Base at Bayview, high school basketball games - and it also has served less ceremoniously as a dump. Its century-old history begins with a lumber mill, one that sat where the city boat launch and Third Street parking lot is today, using the shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene to haul in logs and shipping the cut cargo on the railroad running through downtown. When the mill closed in 1929 the park sat vacant. That was the same year the city of Coeur d'Alene began acquiring land around McEuen Field, then called Mullan Park. And to fill in the ruined soil in the 1930s after the mill was gone, anything went." More here.

Question: Are there things in the article that you didn't know about McEuen Field?