Ralph’s NIdaho ‘Faces’ On Display

Above, you see World War II veteran John Meschko in his St. Maries home . John’s portrait by Ralph Bartholdt is one of many that is on display through Sept. 30 at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library lower gallery as part of Ralph’s photography exhibit: “Neighbors, Faces of North Idaho.” Ralph is a long-time North Idaho blogger (see: Skookum Photography in right rail) and now a reporter for the Bonner County Bee. Ralph e-mails Hucks Online: ” These are images of Panhandle people that I interviewed for stories over the past decade ranging from a heavy-legged Priest Lake barber to Jonesy Woltering, a 70-something independent woman who lived at Little Carpenter Creek south of Fernwood and prided herself in being able to hunt ‘as well as any man.’ A few celebs such as the late Vernon Baker and classical guitarist Leon Atkinson, but mostly just neighbors, unfamed but still worth celebrating for their decency and candor and humanness.”