On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with prolific author - and frequent guest - David B. Williams about the release of his new book "Wild In Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature” from Mountaineers Books.

For more information about David B. Williams, his book, his blog and other activities - including a number of upcoming public events marking the release of "Wild In Seattle" - you'll find links at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page:

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CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Standard Time via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streams live via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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Feliks Banel's guests on this special episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY – broadcast LIVE from the Museum of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia – include Vivianne Gosselin, director of the museum; Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia (UBC) professor and author of the forthcoming book "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" from University of Washington Press; and a panel conversation with John Mackie of the Vancouver Sun; historian John Atkin; and Andy Yan, professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU).

This LIVE, LOCAL AND REMOTE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented from 11am to 1pm Pacific Time on Friday, April 4, 2025 via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streaming live via space101fm.org from the Museum of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel pays tribute to the late Chris Wedes, who played J.P. Patches on KIRO TV in Seattle from 1958 to 1981, and who remains one of the most beloved performers in the history of the Pacific Northwest. In this interview from 2010, Wedes looks back on what it meant to play J.P. for all those years, and how he continued to connect with Patches Pals even after his show left the air.

This audio was originally produced by Feliks Banel and Casey McNerthney for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's local history podcast "Seattle Rewind" in 2010. Chris Wedes passed away in 2012 at age 84; he would have turned 97 today - April 3, 2025.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel digs into the archives for his 2022 conversation with John Keister, who was host of "Almost LIVE" when that KING 5 TV program in Seattle pulled off the infamous - and still reverberating - Space Needle Hoax of April 1, 1989.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with retired military and commercial pilot Lee Corbin, who happens to be one of the best military aviation and military infrastructure historians in the Pacific Northwest. Corbin talks about his years-long effort to research an Air Force plane crash that took place in Orting, Washington on April 1, 1959 - which inspired a UFO conspiracy theory - and also describes his efforts to memorialize the crew members who died in the crash. PLEASE NOTE: This not an April Fool's Day story, this is all true.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus PLAY BALL! episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel digs into the archives for his 2016 interview with the late Bill Schonely, voice of the Seattle Pilots during their one and only MLB season in the Northwest in 1969. The team became the Milwaukee Brewers on this day - March 31, 1970 - 55 years ago. Schonely remained in the region and became the voice of the Portland Trailblazers.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Josh LaBelle, executive director of the non-profit Seattle Theatre Group (STG) on the partnership announced Friday whereby STG will now manage the historic 5th Avenue Theatre in downtown Seattle - along with other STG venues including the Paramount Theatre and Neptune Theatre.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus ERUPTION episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with John Erickson and Mike Beard who covered the first eruption of Mount St. Helens for radio station KGW in Portland, Oregon on March 27, 1980. Erickson was news director and Beard was a reporter who just happened to be airborne over the mountain on the day of that first eruption 45 years ago. The two worked together to get Beard on the air and spread the news to Portland and the world that Mount St. Helens had awakened from a century or more of slumber. The more destructive - and deadly - eruption would come less than two months later.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY - on a day when rare and extreme weather is forecast for parts of Western Washington - Feliks Banel digs into the archives for this oral history montage about the deadly Vancouver, WA tornado of April 5, 1972. This montage was originally produced by Feliks for a Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau presentation.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus DOME-OLITION episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel marks the 25th anniversary of the implosion of the KINGDOME – Seattle and King County’s multipurpose domed stadium – by digging into his personal archives for this piece originally produced (with help from Jim Gates) for the KUOW Public Radio history series “THIS NOT JUST IN.”

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms.