On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" - Feliks Banel speaks with musician and musical historian Bob Antone. Antone and his band, Tinkham Road, are based in the Snoqualmie Valley, and are committed to preserving and performing local music going back centuries.

For more from Bob Antone and Tinkham Road:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIo-gIWEuF-o-i49_Wr2ddA/featured

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" - Feliks Banel speaks with journalist Essex Porter, who recently retired after nearly 40 years at KIRO TV news in Seattle.

To follow Essex Porter on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/EssexKIRO7

To learn more about Northwest journalism history, plan a visit to the Washington State History Museum during Summer 2022 for “News of the Day,” an exhibit exploring how big events in Evergreen State history were covered by the media.

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" - Feliks Banel speaks with Dr. Michael McKenzie, professor of philosophy and religion at Keuka College in Keuka Park, New York. He’s author of a piece in the Winter 2021-2022 edition of COLUMBIA magazine about the wintertime forced relocation of Northern Paiute people from Oregon to Washington Territory.

For more information about Dr. McKenzie's book, "A Country Strange and Far: The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834–1918":

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496218810/

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" -Feliks Banel speaks with Megan Ockerman, historian for the Olympia Tumwater Foundation, and author of a piece in the Winter 2021-2022 edition of COLUMBIA magazine about women and the Olympia Brewing Company.

For more information about the Olympia Tumwater Foundation:

https://olytumfoundation.org/

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" -Feliks Banel speaks with Faith Brower, curator at Tacoma Art Museum, about the exhibition "On Native Land: Landscapes from the Haub Family Collection." More than a dozen Western landscapes are featured which depict homelands of Indigenous peoples; specific groups are recognized in written land acknowledgments on labels accompanying each painting in the gallery.

For more information about "On Native Land":

www.tacomaartmuseum.org/explore/upcoming-exhibitions/

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" -Feliks Banel speaks with tribal historian Michael Finley and language scholar Shelly Boyd of the Colville Tribe about Northwest history, including residential schools. Shelly Boyd’s essay, “Save the Language and the Language will Save You,” is the cover story for the Autumn 2021 issue of COLUMBIA.

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" -Feliks Banel talks about the historic 'Heatdome' of 2021 with meteorologist Scott Sistek. He grew up in the Northwest, and joined the team at TV station Fox 13 in Seattle after many years at KOMO TV.

Scott Sistek's Weather Blog for Fox 13:

https://www.q13fox.com/tag/weather/scotts-weather-blog

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" -Feliks Banel speaks with Dennis Larsen, Ezra Meeker scholar and author of four books about the multi-faceted figure, including "Saving The Oregon Trail: Ezra Meeker's Last Grand Quest."

For more information about Larsen's latest book:

https://wsupress.wsu.edu/product/saving-the-oregon-trail/

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" -Feliks Banel speaks with John C. Hughes, chief historian for the Washington Secretary of State, and author of "Julie Butler Hansen: A trailblazing Washington politician," published by the Secretary of State's Office in 2021.

For more information about Hughes's book:

https://www.sos.wa.gov/store/#/detail/99

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" -Feliks Banel speaks with Cassandra Tate, historian and journalist, and author of "Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and its Shifting Legacy in the American West," published by Sasquatch Books in 2020.

For more information about Tate's book:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604178/unsettled-ground-by-cassandra-tate/

Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.