Steamboats on Lake CdA focus of historical program

COEUR d’ALENE – A program, “The Steamboat History of Lake Coeur d’Alene,” will be presented on Monday at 7 p.m. at North Idaho College’s Molstead Library, Todd Hall, and is free and open to the public. Program presenter Robert Singletary is an instructor, lecturer, regional historian and author of the Kootenai Chronicles. He is currently president of the Museum of North Idaho and a member of the Fort Sherman Historical Society.

Portraying a steamboat captain, Singletary will bring to life again the steamboat era of Lake Coeur d’Alene and its connecting waterways using many historical pictures and his rich collection of stories. The program is sponsored by Molstead Library as a part of its historical series and co-sponsored by the Museum of North Idaho.

Due to the popularity of the Molstead Library program series, guests are asked to please phone the library during business hours at 769-3355 to reserve admission tickets. Todd Hall, although very comfortable, is small. Any tickets not picked up five minutes before the programs will go to those on the standby list. The door to Todd Hall opens at 6:30 p.m.