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3 weeks ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Stephen Hegg |Knute Berger
But its origins start humbly: in a gentle lake in the mountains of British Columbia. Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube or Podbean. Cascade PBS’s resident historian Knute Berger journeyed to these headwaters for a recent episode of the Mossback’s Northwest video series, but there’s far more left to explore. In this episode of Mossback, Berger joins co-host Stephen Hegg to share what it was like to make the trek to that peaceful lake in Canada where it all begins.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger |Stephen Hegg
Train is perhaps best known for the alleged relationship between his world travels and the Jules Verne bestseller Around the World in 80 Days, and less well-known for his attempts to beat subsequent travel records through a partnership with a newspaper in Tacoma. Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube or Podbean.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger
I had a chance to work closely with both men. They were rational, reality-based civil servants who cared deeply. They were also models of stewardship. Ralph, Washington's Secretary of State from 1981 to 2001, can be credited with many things: helping Southeast Asian refugees resettle inWashington, supporting environmental laws, being a moderate “Dan Evans” style Republican who was bipartisan and created a template for the running of fair elections in this state.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger |Stephen Hegg
That’s earned it the menacing nickname “Graveyard of the Pacific,” although that’s not the only gloomy moniker in the region. Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or Podbean. Cascade PBS’s resident historian Knute Berger explored some of this history in a recent episode of the Mossback’s Northwest video series, but there are more stories left to tell.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger |Stephen Hegg
But some of the weirdest things can happen to corpses after death. Did you know that dead bodies can turn into soap? Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or Podbean. Cascade PBS’s resident historian Knute Berger explored a few lesser-known stories of regional murder and mystery in a recent episode of the Mossback’s Northwest video series, but there is much more left to share.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger
In Source Code: My Beginnings, the first book in a trilogy, the tech giant co-founder reflects on his Seattle upbringing and what — and who — made him. Bill Gates (foreground) and Paul Allen work with the school’s teletype machine at Lakeside School in Seattle in 1970. (Photo courtesy of Bruce R. Burgess) On the edge of 70, Bill Gates has written his first memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger |Stephen Hegg
But after the video aired, a viewer reached out with some more information: Catherine Montgomery, a “progressive” of her time, expressed extremely racist views. Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or Podbean. This, unfortunately, isn’t a new story. Many American heroes, including in the context of wilderness access and preservation, perpetuated racism and exclusion.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger |Stephen Hegg
Long a crucial source of sustenance, culture and trade, the Pacific Northwest’s largest river has continued to be a vital part of human civilization, whether through its salmon or its many hydroelectric dams. Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or Podbean. Cascade PBS’s resident historian Knute Berger dug into this history in a recent episode of the Mossback’s Northwest video series, but there is much more left to discuss.
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2 months ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger |Stephen Hegg
Within a couple of decades, though, cars were everywhere, and Pacific Northwesterners were using their cars for all kinds of intrepid adventures, from long-haul road trips to mountainside camping. Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or Podbean. Cascade PBS’s resident historian Knute Berger took a look at early car culture in our region in a recent episode of the Mossback’s Northwest video series, but there’s much more left to explore.
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2 months ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Knute Berger |Stephen Hegg
Ice, fire and colossal floods: Knute Berger digs into the river’s tumultuous geologic history with lessons from Nick on the Rocks’ Nick Zentner. , / Knute Berger and Nick Zentner walk near the Columbia River in Eastern Washington. (Alley Rutzel for Cascade PBS) The Columbia River has been carved up by more than a dozen dams over the past century. But it’s the colossal floods and lava flows from millions of years ago that truly set it on its winding path.
