Arthur Hart, a history columnist for the Idaho Statesman for 50 years, and his wife, Dee, at their home in Boise on Feb. 8, 2017. Hart died on Dec. 8, 2020, at age 99.

Beloved Idaho historian and longtime Idaho Statesman columnist Arthur Hart died Dec. 8, 2020 in Boise, ID. He wrote one of the paper’s longest running columns.

Arthur Hart, a longtime columnist for the Idaho Statesman and an Idaho State Historical Society director emeritus, at his home in Boise on Feb. 8, 2017. Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman file Facebook ...