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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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00:17:09

BONUS EPISODE: Apply Now for FREE Speaker Programs...

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2025/09/26

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Mariana Imaz, program manager of the Speakers Bureau for Humanities Washington. The Speakers Bureau provides a range of topics and speakers covering arts, culture, history - and so much more - and non-profit groups and public agencies around the Evergreen State can submit applications to request speakers to appear in their communities. Humanities Washington just released the list of speakers and topics available for 2026-2027

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00:28:57

BONUS EPISODE: Journalism Student Discovers Hidden...

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2025/09/23

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Josephine Tsai, a journalism graduate student in Brooklyn, New York.CASCADE OF HISTORY has been covering the threatened closure of the Lewis Army Museum at Joint Base Lewis McChord near Tacoma for the past few months. As we have reported, Lewis Army Museum is one of many U.S. Army museums targeted for closure around the United States and at bases overseas. While researching the threatened closure of the Army's Harbor Defense

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00:39:42

SPECIAL EPISODE: Archival Interview with the late Dr....

Cascade of History ·

2025/09/23

CASCADE OF HISTORY learned late Monday, September 22, 2025 that Dr. Quintard Taylor, History Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, has passed away. Dr. Taylor contributed incalculably to Pacific Northwest history and to Black history. He was author of “The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from the 1870s through the Civil Rights Era,” and founder of the website www.blackpast.org. CASCADE OF HISTORY’s Feliks Banel spoke with Dr. Taylor in August 2020 for the old

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01:00:04

Ep. 120: Pancake Chef in SeaTac to close; plus Ryan...

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2025/09/22

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Scott Schaefer, founder/publisher/editor of the B-Town Blog with news they broke today of the upcoming closure of the beloved Pancake Chef restaurant in SeaTac, WA; Nick Biermann with the latest from Sumner, WA in the aftermath of the destruction of the Ryan House by the City of Sumner; Al Mackenzie, member of the ASUW Shellhouse Community Advisory Committee with his analysis of recent developments in the effort to restore

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00:36:22

BONUS EPISODE: New History Book says Washington's...

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2025/09/18

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Bud Withers, longtime Northwest sportswriter and author of a new history about the Apple Cup - the annual cross-state college football rivalry game between the University of Washington Huskies and Washington State University Cougars. The first meeting of the two teams was in 1900, and this year will mark the 117th edition of the Apple Cup (it was cancelled a few times in the past due to wars and pandemics).Withers' book is called

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00:55:41

BONUS EPISODE: Historic CONCRETE HERALD is FOR SALE -...

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2025/09/16

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Jason Miller, publisher and editor of The CONCRETE HERALD newspaper in Concrete, Washington.Miller brought the beloved newspaper back to life in 2009, and made it essential reading all through the Skagit Valley in places such as Lyman, Hamilton and Rockport. Now, he’s put the CONCRETE HERALD up for sale. In this interview recorded September 15, 2025, Miller discusses Concrete history, CONCRETE HERALD history, and the reason why

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01:00:15

Ep. 119: LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST from The Masonic Home...

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2025/09/15

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY from the Masonic Home in Des Moines, Washington include Moira Nadal of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation; Lloyd Lytle of the grassroots group working to stop the demolition of the historic building; neighbor George Pettibone; several other neighbors who took part in the DES MOINES HISTORY TRIVIA CHALLENGE; and the Noteworthy Quartet (Chris Cone – lead; Bill Esworthy – bass; Dave Foss – baritone; and Brad Lathrom –

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00:23:01

BONUS EPISODE: Original 1889 WA State Constitution...

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2025/09/12

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Washington State Archivist Heather Hirotaka.Ms. Hirotaka joined the show from Spokane, where she had just escorted the original 1889 Washington State Constitution - on its first trip over the Cascades - for a special public event on Monday, September 15, 2025 from 3-5 p.m. at the Spokane Public Library in downtown Spokane. For more information the 1889 Washington State Constitution's Spokane

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00:23:32

BONUS EPISODE: Japanese Farmers and Seattle's...

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2025/09/12

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Elisa Law, executive director of the non-profit Friends of Magnuson Park - a group supporting a variety of activities at Magnuson Park in Seattle, which happens to be home of CASCADE OF HISTORY's flagship radio station SPACE 101.1 FM. Ms. Law recently completed researching and writing a history of a nearly forgotten Japanese agricultural community which was once located in and near what’s now Magnuson Park at a place called

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00:45:33

BONUS EPISODE: Origins of Seattle's Museum of Flight...

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2025/09/11

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Howard Lovering, Founding Director of The Museum of Flight in Seattle, who also authored a history of the museum in 2016 called “For Future Generations.” Mr. Lovering will present a special program on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at the museum.The Museum of Flight is marking its 60th anniversary this weekend with special events on Saturday, September 13 and Sunday, September 14, 2025. Mr. Lovering previewed his

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00:45:17

BONUS EPISODE: "Managed Extinction" Author Rick...

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2025/09/09

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Rick Williams, co-author of “Managed Extinction: The Decline and Loss of Wild Salmon and Steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.” The book was published in 2024 by Caxton Press in Caldwell, Idaho.In our conversation - as in the book - Mr. Williams goes deep on the past and present of wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River and Snake River, as well as the hope that he has for the future. For more information on "Managed

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00:58:57

SUMMER ENCORE EPISODE: 2024 Mullan Road Conference,...

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2025/09/08

Feliks Banel’s guests on this SUMMER ENCORE EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY are Jake Rehm and Bill Youngs of Eastern Washington University on this past May's Mullan Road Conference and Mullan Road history; and Richard Blumenthal, author of the 2024 book "Maritime Names of Washington"; plus, a live bootleg from the Saturday, September 7, 2024 performance by The Sonics at MoPoP; and the first installment in our listen back to Stan Freberg's "Oregon, Oregon!" centennial musical from 1959. This encore

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00:26:46

BONUS EPISODE: New Online Service for FREE Custom...

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2025/09/05

Feliks Banel’s guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Ariel Doumbouya, Cartographic Products Lead for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program. The USGS has just introduced a new and completely free custom map service aimed at hikers and others who depend on accurate maps for recreational purposes. The custom maps are available to anyone via an online application called topoBuilder. Link to

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00:29:57

BONUS EPISODE: Preserving a Barn - and Finding...

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2025/09/03

Feliks Banel’s guest on this BONUS “HERITAGE BARN” EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Kristin Darrow, who shares the exciting story of how she recently restored a heritage barn near the Walla Walla County community of Waitsburg, Washington.Washington’s Heritage Barn Grant program application deadline is coming up on October 19, 2025, and hundreds of heritage barns in the Evergreen State are eligible for matching grants up to $75,000. Heritage Barn Grants are a program of the Washington State

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00:15:37

BONUS EPISODE: Bronze Bells Stolen from Saint...

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2025/09/02

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with John Cox, bell ringer at Saint Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral in the Cascade neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Sometime early on Sunday, August 31, 2025, thieves got away with three bronze bells, and Mr. Cox and others are trying to track down the bells before they're melted down for scrap. The parish at Saint Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral dates to the 1890s, and the current building was constructed in the 1930s. The bells are much

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00:32:46

BONUS EPISODE: History of VOTE BY MAIL in Washington...

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2025/09/02

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with three-term Republican former Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed about the history of voting by mail in Washington state.Secretary Reed was in office from 2001 to 2013, and previously served as the elected auditor of Thurston County. In this earlier role, he was one of the first public officials to support efforts to adopt voting by mail in the Evergreen State back in the early 1980s. Washington became the second

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00:59:48

SUMMER ENCORE EPISODE: Ghosts of Peter Kirk's Steel...

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2025/08/31

Feliks Banel’s guests on this SUMMER ENCORE EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY are a panel of expert local historians, researchers and authors who have been collaborating on a search for evidence of Peter Kirk's long-ago steel mill on Rose Hill, east of downtown Kirkland near the Costco. Matt McCauley, Kent Sullivan, Saundra Middleton (who is a descendant of Peter Kirk) and Michael Donnelly have been studying archives, maps, photos and other materials to paint a vivid picture of the partial construction

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01:02:59

BONUS EPISODE: "Wallingford Local" Farmers Market...

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2025/08/31

On this END-OF-SUMMER BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present archival audio from the August 2023 live broadcast of The Wallingford Local, a summer series broadcast live each month from May 2023 to September 2023 from the Wallingford Farmers Market at Meridian Park in Seattle, Washington. The Wallingford Local was produced by the CASCADE OF HISTORY team, and this episode was originally broadcast LIVE at 5:00 pm Pacific Time on SPACE 101.1 FM on Wednesday, August 30, 2023. Guests include

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00:22:38

BONUS EPISODE: In-Depth with an Avista Utilities...

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2025/08/30

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Steve Lentini, Principal Hydro Operations Engineer for Avista Utilities. Avista is the private company based in Spokane, Washington which operates the Post Falls Dam on the Spokane River.This is a follow-up to earlier coverage of the half-mile stretch of the Spokane River in Spokane Valley, Washington - east of the city of Spokane - that dried out completely earlier this week. For more information, please listen to this earlier

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00:08:04

BONUS EPISODE: Update on Spokane River from Post...

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2025/08/28

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Jared Webley, spokesperson for the private utility company Avista, operators of the Post Falls Dam on the Spokane River. This is a follow-up to yesterday's BONUS EPISODE about stretch of the river that dried out completely earlier this week. This is not a side channel that has gone dry - it's about one-half mile of the main channel of the Spokane River, which runs 111 miles between Lake Coeur d'Alene in Idaho and the Columbia

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