Publisher's Synopsis
In Keepers of the Record, Kimberly Williams Brackett pairs biographies of two illustrious ancestors. Her great-great grandfather John D. Nims was founder of The Eagle County Blade in Red Cliff, Colo., in 1894, and the North Side News in Jerome, Idaho, in 1908. His son, Harry G. Nims, came up as a newspaperman working for several newspapers around the Magic Valley, including the North Side News, and purchased The Aberdeen Times in Aberdeen, Idaho, in 1938.As "keepers of the record," these men chronicled the births, deaths, successes and failures of those who built the Magic Valley. Their writings told of the arrival of new families, new businesses, new buildings, new schools, new churches: these are the details that together wove a tapestry of community and history.To mark Jerome County's centennial in 2019 - and 110 years since the North Side News' first issue rolled off the presses - Kimberly decided that the Nims' record also needed to be kept, and shared. This book is their chapter in Magic Valley history.
