TIME TRAVEL
Shaun Deller talks to local fourth graders about how to create fire how early fur traders and explorers like David Thompson would have in the early 1800s.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
Bonner County Daily Bee Staff Writer | April 29, 2025
SANDPOINT — Mesmerized, area fourth graders watched as Shaun Deller began to rapidly spin one stick into another, a tiny bit of tinder in the bottom of one.
Soon, a waft of smoke began to emerge as the artist, tanner and craftsman began to blow on the resulting spark.
Carefully, he placed the smoldering file onto a bit of kindling — and the fledgling fire went out.
