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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: History of Spokane-based Rosauers...

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2026/01/10

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Mike Shirts, longtime – and recently retired - Chief Operating Officer of Rosauers Supermarkets, the Spokane-based regional grocery store chain. Shirts worked for the company for more than 50 years, starting out bagging groceries as a teenager in 1974.In this conversation, we go deep on the history of the chain, which traces its roots to a single location in Spokane in the 1930s and now operates stores in four states. We cover the

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00:35:52

BONUS EPISODE: Bomber Down Part One | B-52 and Crew...

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2026/01/09

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present complete audio from Part One of "Bomber Down," a miniseries researched, produced and hosted by Feliks Banel in 2025 for the KSL Podcasts project known as "Unsolved Histories." "Bomber Down" is about a B-52 Stratofortress on a training mission with eight crew members aboard that went missing in the Gulf of Mexico in February 1968. Now, thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers, generous donors, and the non-profit called “Project Recover,” a

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00:34:08

BONUS ENCORE: 2025 Listener Favorite - KNX News...

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2026/01/07

This BONUS ENCORE of CASCADE OF HISTORY was one of our LISTENER FAVORITES in 2025: when Feliks Banel spoke with Alex Silverman of KNX News 97.1 FM, the legendary commercial newsradio station in Los Angeles, about the station's coverage of the January 2025 wildfires in Southern California. Silverman was serving as Director of News and Programming in January 2025 when a series of devastating wildfires struck Southern California. During that time, KNX provided its listeners with some of the best live

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BONUS ENCORE: 2025 Listener Favorite - LIVE from...

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2026/01/04

This BONUS ENCORE of CASCADE OF HISTORY was one of our LISTENER FAVORITES in 2025: a special three-hour "FLAGSHIP FAREWELL" episode hosted by Feliks Banel and broadcast LIVE from the now closed original Burgermaster location in University Village/Laurelhurst in Seattle on its final Friday of operation.Guests included Eugenia Woo from Historic Seattle; former journalist and Seattle City Councilmember Jean Godden; Cynthia Brothers of Vanishing Seattle; author Taha Ebrahimi; historian Kent Sullivan;

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01:20:11

BONUS ENCORE: 2025 Listener Favorite - Deborah...

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2026/01/02

This BONUS ENCORE of CASCADE OF HISTORY was one of our LISTENER FAVORITES in 2025 - and one of the most popular episodes EVER: when Feliks Banel spoke with Deborah Horne in our series of "Exit Interviews" with people who've had long careers in media and/or history in the Pacific Northwest.Deborah Horne retired in October 2025 after 34 years at one station in Seattle - KIRO TV - under three different station owners: Bonneville, Belo and Cox. She's been a consistent and trusted presence on TV news

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01:13:43

BONUS ENCORE: 2025 Listener Favorite - THE STAN...

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2026/01/01

This BONUS ENCORE of CASCADE OF HISTORY was one of our LISTENER FAVORITES in 2025: the STAN BORESON-TENNIAL EDITION with radio personality Tim Hunter, Steve Wilson of Almost LIVE!, and Stan Boreson's daughter Ann Boreson. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary entertainer and broadcaster Stan Boreson, born May 5, 1925. Stan passed away in 2017 at age 91. With new interviews with Mr. Hunter (who had the idea to celebrate Stan and got in touch with CASCADE OF HISTORY); with

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00:44:12

BONUS ENCORE: 2025 Listener Favorite - Jim Dever's...

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2026/01/01

This BONUS ENCORE of CASCADE OF HISTORY was one of our LISTENER FAVORITES in 2025, when Feliks Banel spoke with Jim Dever in a long and far-ranging conversation about Jim's career, local broadcast media, and his decision to step down from EVENING Magazine after 34 years at KING 5 TV in Seattle. Jim Dever and Kim Holcomb's recently launched UPPER LEFTERS Digital Content Stream (via Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/upperlefters/ CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm

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00:34:55

BONUS ENCORE: 2025 Listener Favorite - Lee Reynolds...

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2025/12/31

This BONUS ENCORE of CASCADE OF HISTORY was one of our LISTENER FAVORITES in 2025, when Feliks Banel spoke 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 said that Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll would "any day now" adopt a plan to close Lewis Army Museum and 15 other Army museums

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01:00:46

BONUS EPISODE: Vintage Audio from KBCS 91.3 FM's...

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2025/12/23

For Christmas 2025, Feliks Banel presents a BONUS EPISODE from the archives: a special Christmas 2022 broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY, drawing on the archives of “The Holiday Express,” a live Christmas Eve show he produced and hosted live on Christmas Eve on KBCS 91.3 FM in Bellevue, Washington from 1999 to 2004.Highlights include beloved kids' KIRO TV show host J.P. Patches reading “The Night Before Christmas,” and a 2002 recording of Seattle Mariners’ broadcasters Rick Rizzs and the late Dave

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Ep. 131: Final LIVE SHOW of 2025 - Preservation...

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2025/12/22

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Moira Nadal of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation with this year's winners of Sivinski Preservation Grants; Derek Nguyen of the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma with details about this year's model train exhibit; Malcolm Crockett of Crofton, BC on the history of that Vancouver Island community and his new book; Kerry Tymchuk, Executive Director of the Oregon Historical Society on this year's holiday

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01:20:05

BONUS EPISODE: 80 Minutes with the Evergreen State's...

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2025/12/20

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS “O Tannenbaum” EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Gary Chastagner, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at Washington State University. He’s an award-winning and much honored academic scientist with the enviable nickname of "Dr. Christmas Tree." We spent almost an hour and a half on December 19, 2025 talking with Dr. Christmas Tree – aka Gary Chastagner - about his research, and about how you can take better care of your Christmas tree this year and every year, to

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00:32:16

BONUS EPISODE: Aboard the Steam Locomotive in the...

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2025/12/16

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Martin Hansen, an attorney and vintage railroad expert based in Bend, Oregon.Much of the 1986 film "Stand By Me" was filmed 40 years ago in Oregon. Rob Reiner, director of the film, was found dead along with his wife a few days ago. One iconic scene in the film involves a steam locomotive bearing down on a bridge over a body of water, while the young boy characters in the film are standing on the railroad tracks near the middle of

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01:30:06

Ep. 130: "We Hold These Truths" LIVE Performance at...

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2025/12/16

This episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY features a live broadcast of a performance of “We Hold These Truths," a radio play written by Norman Corwin and originally performed on December 15, 1941 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. This live broadcast was performed before a live audience at Town Hall Seattle on December 15, 2025 - the 234th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. The 2025 cast featured Frank Abe; Enrique Cerna; Lisa Craze Brooks; Jim Dever; Mike

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01:00:00

Ep. 129: Update from Leavenworth post-storm; How you...

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2025/12/15

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Jessica Stoller of the Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce on how the Christmas capital of the Northwest is bouncing back from last week’s storms and how you can help; Maggie Cogswell of the Washington State Archives on efforts to digitize historic images and how you can help identify people and places pictured; Ken Johnsen of Yakima Valley Trolleys with an update on an impasse with the City of Yakima about delays in renewing his

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00:21:51

BONUS EPISODE: "Vinyl Café" Host Stuart McLean...

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2025/12/13

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we dig into the archives for an interview with the late Stuart McLean, host of “The Vinyl Café” for CBC Radio in Canada. Feliks Banel interviewed Mr. McLean in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on the afternoon of December 11, 2013. That night, Mr. McLean would present a special holiday touring edition of his radio show to a sold-out theatre packed full of American "Vinyl Café" fans. "The Vinyl Café" is a little hard to describe for those

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00:19:30

BONUS EPISODE: Hearing Examiner Denies Appeal of...

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2025/12/12

News broke on Thursday, December 11, 2025 that the City of Des Moines, WA Hearing Examiner has denied the appeal of a coalition of groups working to halt the demolition of the Masonic Home of Washington. The Masonic Home is a sprawling hotel-like complex built in the 1920s south of Seattle as a retirement home for Freemasons in a park-like setting with a commanding view of Puget Sound. Feliks Banel's guests on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY are Lloyd Lytle, a leader of the grassroots

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00:41:29

BONUS EPISODE: Replogle Globes CEO Joe Wright on the...

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2025/12/11

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Joe Wright, CEO of Replogle Globes, an American manufacturer based near Chicago, Illinois. Replogle Globes was founded nearly a century ago in Chicago by Luther Replogle. In an era when online mapping dominates daily navigating, the company is considered the world’s largest manufacturer of globes, and most of their products are still made in the United States. Their top-of-the-line model is called "The Diplomat," and many have been

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00:32:15

BONUS EPISODE: Interview with the late Bryan Johnson...

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2025/12/10

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents his archival interview from 2009 with the late Bryan Johnson, longtime KOMO Radio and TV journalist in Seattle whose passing at age 89 was announced on December 8, 2025.Just a few weeks ago, we featured a 2013 interview with Bryan Johnson about when he was on the radio in Seattle in 1963 breaking the news about the Kennedy assassination. With word of Mr. Johnson's passing, we went back into the archives for this conversation from

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00:11:42

BONUS EPISODE: Vintage Audio - Steve Slaton of KISW...

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2025/12/08

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents vintage audio – recorded by him by holding his Sanyo tape recorder near the radio speaker on the night of December 8, 1980. Former Beatle John Lennon had been assassinated in New York City. In Seattle, on FM rock station KISW, legendary DJ Steve Slaton was on the air. Within minutes of the news reaching Seattle, he did what live and local radio used to do better than any other medium: he opened up the phone lines. In this long

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01:00:00

Ep. 128: LIVE REPORT from Pearl Harbor Commemorations...

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2025/12/08

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Lt. Colonel Erik Flint (retired) LIVE from Pearl Harbor Day commemorations in Honolulu; Roving Correspondent Ken Zick with multiple LIVE UPDATES from Candy Cane Lane in Seattle; meteorologist Scott Sistek on storm history and his new Emerald City Weather Blog; and Frank Abe on Rachel Maddow's new podcast about Japanese American incarceration during World War II - and a preview of the live production of "We Hold These Truths"

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