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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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Ep. 71: V-J Day 60th Anniversary Panel Discussion...

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2024/07/29

On this summertime edition of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present a panel discussion marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II - VJ Day, August 14, 1945 - on the actual 60th anniversary in 2005. Participants included several local residents who were in the military, working in defense plants or otherwise supporting the Allied war effort as young adults in 1945. The panel was part of a series curated and moderated by CASCADE OF HISTORY producer/host Feliks Banel when he was deputy director

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Ep. 70: Late, Great Pacific Northwest Sports...

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2024/07/22

On this summertime edition of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present a 2003 panel discussion with a quartet of Pacific Northwest sports broadcasters who have all since passed away: Rod Belcher, Bob Blackburn, Lee Desilet and Ron Forsell. The panel was part of a series called "Talk of the Town" curated and moderated by Cascade of History producer/host Feliks Banel when he was deputy director of Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Support for the original program came from what's now Humanities

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Ep. 69: WWII Homefront Pop Culture - "When The Lights...

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2024/07/08

On this summertime edition of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents a audio documentary from the archives called "When The Lights Go On Again," as originally broadcast on KBCS 91.3 FM on June 5, 2005.The 2005 program marked the 60th anniversary of VE Day - the end of WWII in Europe - and looked at music, news and other homefront pop culture of the UK and United States. This episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally broadcast at 8pm Pacific Time on Sunday, July 7, 2024 via SPACE 101.1 FM

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Ep. 68: Historian David Nicandri and "Discovering...

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2024/06/10

Feliks Banel's guest on this episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY is historian and author David Nicandri, whose latest book is called "Discovering Nothing: In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage" (UBC Press). Nicandri served as executive director of the Washington State History Museum, but since retiring several years ago, he's been producing epic books about Northwest history - Corps of Discovery, Lewis & Clark, Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver - at a remarkable clip.This episode of CASCADE OF

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Ep. 67: D-Day 80th Anniversary Special

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2024/06/03

Feliks Banel presents on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY an archival recording of a 60th anniversary special commemorating D-Day, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6, 1944, and about the role of radio and pop culture in World War II. The 60th anniversary special originally aired on June 6, 2004 on KBCS 91.3 FM from Bellevue College. This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday, June 2, 2024 via SPACE 101.1 FM

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Ep. 66: Portland Trailblazers 1977 World Championship...

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2024/05/27

Feliks Banel presents on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY highlights from "BLAZERMANIA," an LP produced in 1977 to celebrate the Portland Trailblazers' NBA World Championship and narrated by legendary broadcaster Bill Schonely. Also, we speak by phone with Wally Walker, whose rookie season was with the Trailblazers in that championship season, and who joined the Seattle Supersonics in autumn 1977 and was part of that year's playoff run, and of the 1978-1979 championship season.This LIVE

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Ep. 65: Young Fresh Fellows LIVE at Mural...

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2024/05/20

Feliks Banel presents on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY a live recording of the Young Fresh Fellows from August 5, 1985 at the Mural Amphitheatre at Seattle Center, a concert originally presented by late, great AM alternative commercial radio station KJET. Also, roving correspondent Ken Zick checks in with an anecdote about the time he booked YFF to play the 1985 Homecoming dance during his senior year at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Washington. And, we listen to the original

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Ep. 64: Encore of ‘LIVE with Save Our Historic...

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2024/05/11

As of Friday, May 10, 2024, the people of the Parkland Community Association in Parkland, Washington have successfully saved Parkland School and are turning it into a community center in the center of the community.To celebrate, Feliks Banel's guests on this encore episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY – originally broadcast LIVE across the street from Parkland School - include Wendy Freeman and Phil Edlund, organizers with the group Save Our Historic Parkland School; James Hester, member of the final

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Ep. 63: Author and Historian Frank Abe encore...

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2024/05/05

Feliks Banel's guest on this encore episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY is author, historian and playwright Frank Abe, who’s devoted much of the past four decades to studying, writing about, and creating public programs about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II - and who hosted a series of programs in 2023 at the Seattle Public Library marking the centennial of the birth of author John Okada. Abe also served as editor of a new compilation being published by Penguin Books, "The

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Ep. 62: Tribute to Yakama Linguist and Scholar...

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2024/04/29

Feliks Banel presents on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY a tribute to the late Virginia Beavert, Yakama linguist and scholar who passed away in February 2024 at age 102. This episode features an interview with Ms. Beavert and her co-editors Michelle Jacob and Joana Jansen from January 2022; the three collaborated on the second edition of Ms. Beavert's landmark collection of legends and stories called "Anakú Iwachá" (published by Yakama Nation and University of Washington Press in

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Ep. 61: Clark Park Gazebo, Seattle World's Fair...

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2024/04/22

Feliks Banel’s guest on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Andrea Tucker, president of the non-profit Historic Everett on the group's effort to reach a common-sense compromise with the City of Everett to preserve the Clark Park Gazebo. Also featured on this episode is a tribute to the late Louis Larsen, the final surviving member of the executive leadership team of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, who passed away last month at age 99. Larsen was a good friend of CASCADE OF HISTORY, and we

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Ep. 60: Special Tribute to Brakeman Bill McLain,...

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2024/04/15

Feliks Banel presents on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY a tribute to the late “Brakeman Bill” McLain, longtime local kids’ TV show host who passed away on April 9, 2024 at age 96. Brakeman Bill was a fixture on Channel 11 KTNT/KSTW Tacoma-Seattle from 1955 to 1975. This episode features highlights from a long phone interview with Bill McLain and his wife Jean recorded July 6, 2021.This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday,

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Ep. 59: Around The World Flight Centennial LIVE from...

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2024/04/07

Feliks Banel's guests on this episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY – broadcast LIVE from from the Around The World Flight Centennial Celebration at Magnuson Park - include guest co-host and aviation historian Lee Corbin; Elisa Law of Friends of Magnuson Park; General Frank Goodell of the Centennial Committee; and longtime Lake Washington underwater explorer and aviation historian Matt McCauley. This program also includes live coverage of the special event presented by the Friends of Magnuson Park to mark

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Ep. 58: "Songs of Expo '74" Musical Countdown

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2024/03/11

Feliks Banel’s guest on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Liz Wood, Spokane-based historian and collector of all things Expo '74, the world's fair held in the Lilac City 50 years ago at what's now Riverfront Park.Ms. Wood shared recordings from her collection of Expo '74 songs and helped put together a countdown of rare and nearly forgotten recordings created to promote the fair, and to play in various pavilions and other attractions in operation during the fair's May-November 1974

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Ep. 57: SuperSonics history panel from 2004 and Save...

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2024/02/26

Feliks Banel presents on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY highlights from a Seattle SuperSonics history panel discussion recorded at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) on June 1, 2004 featuring Greg Heberlein, retired Seattle Times journalist; the late Bob Blackburn, original “Voice of the Sonics”; and the late John “J.J.” Johnson, member of the 1979 NBA World Championship team. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the team’s one and only World Championship. Also joining us live

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Ep. 56: Central Area history, History broadcaster...

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2024/02/19

Feliks Banel’s guests on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Dr. Quintard Taylor, founder of BlackPast.org, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, and author of “The Forging of a Black Community,” in an archival interview from the old COLUMBIA CONVERSATIONS podcast; and Joseph Pentheroudakis, board member of the Key Peninsula Historical Society about the new exhibit “Road Show” opening on February 24, 2024. Also on this episode, a look and listen back to early history

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Ep. 55: LIVE from Parkland, WA with Save Our Historic...

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2024/01/29

Feliks Banel's guests on this episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY – broadcast LIVE from Parkland, Washington - include Wendy Freeman and Phil Edlund, organizers with the group Save Our Historic Parkland School; James Hester, member of the final sixth grade class at the school who spoke out as an 11-year-old in 1981 in favor of saving the school; Tono Sablan of BlueZones Parkland-Spanaway; Nick Biermann of Save The Ryan House (in nearby Sumner, WA); local performer Gunnar Johnson; and musical guests Murdre

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Ep. 54: Pat O’Day 65th Anniversary Tribute for...

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2024/01/22

Feliks Banel presents a tribute to late Pacific Northwest DJ and pop culture renaissance man Pat O’Day on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY. With a vintage aircheck and two long excerpts from an oral history recorded by WSU Professor Hugh Rundell in the late 1970s, we hear directly from Pat O’Day about his early influences and his peripatetic radio career around the Evergreen State (and a corner of the Beaver State). O’Day, born Paul Berg, made his Seattle debut on KAYO – and introduced his

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Ep. 53: Belt Line & Wilburton Trestle, Big Snow of...

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2024/01/08

Feliks Banel’s guests on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Jack Christensen, longtime Northern Pacific employee on the history of the Belt Line and the Wilburton Trestle (recorded in 2017); Jean Sherrard on the social-media snowstorm of February 2019 (recorded in 2019); Janet Way on the Fircrest Chapel in Shoreline being added to the National Register of Historic Places; and the fourth and final heartbreaking installment in the 1951 vintage “Blackie of Naches Valley” episode of the

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Ep. 52: Vintage Seattle radio play "Green & White...

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2023/12/21

On this special 2023 Christmas episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present Chris Wedes (better known as KIRO TV clown J.P. Patches) and Bob Newman (better known as J.P.'s pal Gertrude) in an original radio play first broadcast on KIXI AM 880 in Seattle on December 16, 2000.Wedes plays a Frederick & Nelson department store doorman, while Newman is the F&N Santa Claus. A family tries to visit the downtown Seattle Frederick's for their Christmas Eve ritual, but a snowstorm ensues. The action is set

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