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Cascade of History

CASCADE OF HISTORY is the only LIVE radio show presenting news and stories about people doing cool things with and for history in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. We talk about people, artifacts, books, maps, photos, places, landmarks, public lands, state and national parks, trails, highways, and the historic events that can bring us all together. The show is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time on SPACE 101.1 FM (and streaming via http://www.space101fm.org ) from

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BONUS EPISODE: Why the Opaque Process to sell...

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2025/07/17

On this BONUS EPISODE of "AS THE CLAQUATO CHURCH TURNS," the rapid-fire developments in Lewis County, WA just keep-a-comin'!! It turns out that Lewis County was secretly working with the private, non-profit Claquato Cemetery to transfer the Claquato Church to their ownership (the cemetery is just down the road from the church) by way of a public auction. Why, exactly, Lewis County Board of Commissioners had to be so secretive is unclear - but it appears that Lewis County declared Claquato Church

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00:03:53

BONUS ON THE ROAD BREAKING NEWS EPISODE: 1858...

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2025/07/16

This is a special BONUS ON THE ROAD BREAKING NEWS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY with Feliks Banel. The Claquato Church in Lewis County, Washington was built in 1858 and is one of the oldest structures in the Evergreen State. Lewis County Commissioners approved a plan on July 15, 2025 to auction it off to the highest bidder. CASCADE OF HISTORY is working on a story, but wanted to provide this update.Story from The Chronicle of July 15,

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00:35:57

BONUS EPISODE: Controversy as Lewis County, WA puts...

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2025/07/16

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel digs deeper into the controversy brewing in Lewis County, WA where a decision by the Board of County Commissioners - with little or no public input to sell a historic building with a two-week bidding process - has caught many residents off guard, and upset some who care about history and historic preservation. The Claquato Church in Lewis County, Washington was built in 1858 and is one of the oldest structures in the Evergreen State. Lewis

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BONUS EPISODE: Wrecked Plane's Journey from the...

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2025/07/14

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents two interviews with Matt McCauley, a local explorer and diver who will this weekend see a plane he pulled from the bottom of Lake Washington 41 years ago take to the skies of Colorado.In the first conversation from April 2024, co-host Lee Corbin and Feliks Banel speak with Matt McCauley about his adventures retrieving sunken aircraft from Lake Washington. This was originally broadcast live as part of the world flight centennial

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Ep. 116: Lewis Army Museum Update, History Hunter...

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2025/07/14

Feliks Banel's guests on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Dr. Megan Nishikawa, fellow of the Friends of the Lewis Army Museum, with an update the threatened closure of the museum; Phil Massie, Northwest "history hunter" who deeply researches abandoned places and then searches with his metal detector, on some recent finds; and Matt McCauley, who this coming Saturday in Colorado will witness the first flight of a vintage U.S. Navy plane he retrieved from the bottom of Lake Washington

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BONUS EPISODE: All Aboard the "Great Big Rollin'...

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2025/07/11

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Tim Lillethorup, a filmmaker in Omaha, Nebraska whose father Galen Lillethorup was one of the geniuses behind the classic "Great Big Rollin' Railroad" 1970s TV commercial for the Union Pacific Railroad.The late elder Lillethorup also helped create the country artist C.W. McCall - a character with origins in a TV commercial for a regional bakery, who went to a series of hit songs - including the CB radio classic, "Convoy." Links

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00:13:44

BONUS EPISODE: Pat O'Day, KJR and Cruising Colby...

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2025/07/10

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents an archival interview with legendary deejay, programmer and concert promoter Pat O'Day from March 2020. Mr. O'Day passed away in August 2020.In this interview, O'Day is asked about what it was like to be a popular deejay on Seattle radio station KJR during the era in the 1960s when teenagers "cruised Colby" - Colby Avenue in Everett, Washington - while many of them had KJR tuned in on the car radio. CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast

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00:34:55

BONUS EPISODE: Sec of the Army adopting plan "any day...

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2025/07/09

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Lee Reynolds, public affairs officer for the U.S. Army's Center of Military History, the part of the Army that funds and manages Lewis Army Museum at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) near Tacoma.In this interview from Tuesday, July 8, 2025, Mr. Reynolds confirms that Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll will "any day now" adopt a plan to close Lewis Army Museum and 15 other Army museums. Reynolds responds to questions about the

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00:26:25

BONUS EPISODE: History of the Idaho Candy Company and...

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2025/07/08

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Dave Wagers, president - and "Candyman" - of the Idaho Candy Company, makers of the famous "Idaho Spud" candy bar. In this interview from June 30, 2021, we go deep on the company’s history and its place in the contemporary culture of the Gem State. Special thanks to Preservation Idaho for posting a photo on Facebook of the Idaho Candy Company’s Boise, ID facility earlier today. That image inspired this trip into the CASCADE OF

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00:11:55

BONUS EPISODE: Tour US Coast Guard Tall Ship "EAGLE"...

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2025/07/08

On this BONUS “IN THE NEWS” EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with U.S. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Sherri Eng for details about the upcoming visit to Seattle by the Coast Guard sailing vessel Eagle. The three-masted barque Eagle is on a West Coast tour during the summer of 2025 and will visit Seattle on Wednesday, July 9 and Thursday, July 10. The vessel will be open for public tours at Pier 66 on both days. In this brief conversation, U.S. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer

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00:59:42

Ep. 115: Oasis, Post-Grunge Seattle and the Reunion...

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2025/07/07

Feliks Banel's guest on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY is musician Scott Sutherland, a deep thinker, historian and philosopher of American music and Northwest bands and culture. Going back to the 1980s, Sutherland played in Seattle bands including the Dwindles, Chemistry Set and Model Rockets, and has been a fan of British band Oasis since the mid 1990s. Sutherland saw Oasis play at the old Seattle Center Arena 30 years ago, and he's headed to Manchester later this month to see the

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00:38:04

BONUS EPISODE: "Crack of the Bat: History of Baseball...

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2025/07/06

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with James R. Walker, author of "Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio."Mr. Walker's book was published in 2015 by University of Nebraska Press. In this conversation from June 2019, he describes the early days of baseball broadcasting, and that special fit and distinctive connection that only the sport of baseball seems to have with the audio medium. CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm

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BONUS EPISODE: History and Future of Freighthouse...

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2025/07/04

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel looks in the past and future of Freighthouse Square in Tacoma with Tacoma historian and historic preservationist Michael Sullivan, and with Sound Transit public information officer David Jackson. As reported last week by multiple media outlets in the Puget Sound area, Freighthouse Square is likely to be demolished or radically altered sometime in the next few years. The structure, originally built for railroad purposes by the Milwaukee Road,

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00:27:44

BONUS EPISODE: Questions and Controversy Around...

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2025/07/03

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Lt. Colonel Erik Flint, retired former director of Lewis Army Museum at JBLM - Joint Base Lewis McChord - near Tacoma, Washington.As reported by Jerry Cornfield for the Washington State Standard on July 1, 2025, the museum is on a list of similar military museums around the country now targeted for closure. According to Lt. Colonel Flint, questions - and controversy - surround the process by which Lewis Army Museum was added to

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00:20:34

BONUS EPISODE: Declaration of Independence LIVE...

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2025/07/01

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present audio from a live reading of the Declaration of Independence held at the old MOHAI - Museum of History & Industry - in Seattle's Montlake neighborhood.When an original printing of the Declaration of Independence visited Seattle in August 2003, it was displayed for 11 days at MOHAI. The document was here as part of a national tour organized by Norman Lear, the TV producer who had purchased what's known as a “Dunlap broadside.” MOHAI presented

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00:28:03

BONUS EPISODE: Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos LIVE...

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2025/06/30

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present audio from a live interview with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle's Lake Union Park on October 11, 2013. Host and emcee is MOHAI director Leonard Garfield, who introduces then-Governor Jay Inslee. Then, Garfield and Bezos engage in a far-ranging conversation about innovation and Bezos’ philosophy. The occasion was dedication of the Bezos Center for Innovation at MOHAI. Mr. Bezos and then-wife

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00:24:41

BONUS EPISODE: Search Ends for Northwest Airlines...

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2025/06/28

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Valerie van Heest of Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates about calling an end to the search for Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 of June 23, 1950.Ms. van Heest and her colleagues have spent two decades searching in Lake Michigan for the missing DC-4, which was bound for Seattle from New York City with 58 passengers and crew. Ms. van Heest's book about the flight and the search is called "Fatal Crossing." More information about

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Ep. 114: LIVE BROADCAST from Seattle High School...

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2025/06/27

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY from the farewell event for Seattle High School Memorial Stadium include Clay Eals and Jean Sherrard of the Seattle Times' Seattle Now & Then; Northwest sports historian and collector David Eskenazi; and music historian Eric Magnuson. The 1947 stadium, deemed unworthy of landmark status, will soon be demolished and a shiny new stadium built in its place. The structure, designed by noted architect George Stoddard, was dedicated

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00:59:52

BONUS ENCORE EPISODE: Memorial Stadium Doomed by...

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2025/06/25

The City of Seattle and Seattle Public Schools are inviting the public to say goodbye to Seattle High School Memorial Stadium this Thursday, June 26, 2025 from 4pm to 7pm. Memorial Stadium – built in 1947 - was deemed to be not worthy of landmark status in Seattle and will be demolished, while the 1951 wall engraved with names of Seattle Public Schools’ WWII war dead was given landmark status and will be preserved. With the stadium’s imminent destruction prior to construction of a new facility,

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00:25:50

BONUS EPISODE: Seattle Times' Erik Lacitis previews...

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2025/06/25

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Erik Lacitis, longtime journalist with the Seattle Times, to preview an upcoming story in the Sunday magazine. Lacitis put the call out last week for suggestions from readers - headlined “Riots, bad drivers, Dick’s is overrated. Is this your Seattle? Tell us.” - asking for input about local places and products that tend to serve locals as well as tourists. The resulting piece, which will be something of an "unconventional

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