Feliks Banel presents an encore broadcast of a special Christmas episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, drawing on the archives of “The Holiday Express,” a live Christmas Eve show he produced and hosted on KBCS 91.3 from 1999 to 2004. Highlights include J.P. Patches reading “The Night Before Christmas,” and a 2002 recording of Seattle Mariners’ broadcasters Rick Rizzs and the late Dave Niehaus reading “Gift of the Magi” and splitting the duties as if it were an inning of baseball – plus plenty of vintage and local audio surprises!

This encore broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was broadcast at 8pm Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, December 8, 2024 via SPACE 101.1 FM and streaming via space101fm.org from studios at historic Magnuson Park – formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Ep. 88: Encore Revisit of "The Holiday Express"

On this episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present archival audio from the October 26, 2018 live broadcast from Seattle marking the 80th anniversary of Mercury Theater On-The-Air's most famous radio drama production, "War of the Worlds."

This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Time on Sunday, October 19, 2025 via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streaming live via www.space101fm.org from 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 and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

Ep. 124: Archival Audio from 80th Anniversary of Panic Broadcast "War of The Worlds"

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Jim Holyan, author of “I Was A Middle-Aged Wolfman: Chasing Wolves in Idaho's Backcountry.” The book was published in 2025 by Caxton Press in Caldwell, Idaho.

Not long after the Nez Perce Tribe began recovery efforts for gray wolves in Idaho - which had been reintroduced from Canada - wildlife biologist Jim Holyan joined the team responsible for monitoring and tracking the wolves' progress. Along the way, he made lifelong connections and shared stories around many campfires. His new book recounts nearly two decades in the field, as the subtitle says, chasing wolves in Idaho's backcountry.

For more information on "I Was A Middle-Aged Wolfman" by Jim Holyan:
https://caxtonnnn.myshopify.com/products/i-was-a-middle-aged-wolfman-chasing-wolves-in-idahos-backcountry

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 www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms’ quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

BONUS EPISODE: I Was A Middle-Aged Wolfman - Chasing Wolves in Idaho's Backcountry

Feliks Banel's guests on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY are Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa, Chief Janice George, and Dr. Susan Pavel, co-authors of “The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog.”  The book was released in May 2025 by Harbour Publishing in Madeira Park, British Columbia.

“Mutton” is the name of a dog from the 19th century whose pelt was tucked away in a drawer at the Smithsonian Institution for 150 years until it was re-discovered by amateur archivist Candace Wellman. “The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog” tells Mutton’s story and what Mutton can teach us about Coast Salish Woolly Dogs and their significance.

For more information on the book “The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog":
https://harbourpublishing.com/products/9781998526024?srsltid=AfmBOopvZRBO5EOCay19pLgNP8T10sCzRtCYKLJqLoIBvH_UvWlUtmum

For more information on the book launch event at the Burke Museum in Seattle on Oct. 23, 2025:
https://www.burkemuseum.org/calendar/teachings-mutton-coast-salish-woolly-dog

For more information on the exhibit "Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving" at the Burke Museum through August 2026:
https://www.burkemuseum.org/exhibits/woven-wool-resilience-coast-salish-weaving

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 www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms’ quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

BONUS EPISODE: Book Launch "The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog" at the Burke Museum on Oct. 23, 2025

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Deborah Horne for the latest 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 earlier this month 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 in Seattle since 1991, after beginning her career in print journalism and then TV in Providence, Rhode Island.

This far-ranging and extended conversation was recorded on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

More information about Deborah Horne's upcoming appearance with the Seattle Symphony on October 18, 2025:
https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25fam1

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 www.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 and never miss an episode.

BONUS EPISODE: "Exit Interview" with Deborah Horne after 34 Years at KIRO TV

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Lloyd Lytle, a leader of the grassroots group working to prevent demolition of the historic Masonic Home of Washington in Des Moines, Washington.

Lytle’s group is called Citizens for the Protection of Des Moines Historic Resources. They formed a coalition with Des Moines Historical Society and the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation and filed an appeal of the demolition permit issued in August 2025 by the City of Des Moines to property owner Zenith LLC.

On Tuesday, October 21, 2025 and Wednesday, October 22, 2025, a hearing examiner for the City of Des Moines conducted a public hearing online. Lloyd Lytle joined CASCADE OF HISTORY on Thursday, October 23, 205 to give an account of what happened during the hearing, and to preview what might come next.

The Masonic Home - which is also known as "Landmark on the Sound" - 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. The land and buildings are owned by a private developer called Zenith whose plans for the site have not been revealed. CASCADE OF HISTORY previously reached out to two different companies associated with Zenith to request an interview, but we have never heard back.

Preservation/Demolition Permit Appeal Fundraising Campaign from Lloyd Lytle's Group
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-masonic-home-of-des-moines-support-our-appeal

LIVE BROADCAST from the street in front of the Masonic Home on September 14, 2025
https://soundcloud.com/cascadeofhistory/ep-119

Background via the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation's List of Most Endangered Places
https://preservewa.org/most_endangered/masonic-home-washington/

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 www.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.

BONUS EPISODE: Legal Challenge Update for Halting Demolition of Historic Masonic Home of WA

On this SPOOKY BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present archival audio from the October 30, 2014 LIVE broadcast from Seattle of the original Halloween radio play "A Walk In The Dark."

"A Walk In The Dark" was produced, written and directed by CASCADE OF HISTORY host Feliks Banel. It was performed live at Town Hall Seattle before a live audience, and was broadcast live on a local radio station. The cast includes many well-known broadcasters and performers, including Lee Callahan, Tracey Conway, John Curley, Jim Dever, Tim Haeck, John Maynard, Dan Restione, Dave Ross and Tom Tangney. Music was composed and performed by Rob Jones; live sound effects were designed and performed by Curtis Takahashi.

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 www.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 and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

SPOOKY BONUS EPISODE: "Walk In The Dark" LIVE Radio Play from October 2014

On this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel gives an update on efforts to dismantle historic elements of Gas Works Park in Seattle; plays archival audio of an interview with the late Richard Pouliot, a man who survived the October 22, 1962 ditching of an airliner flying between McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma, WA and Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, AK; gives an update on the fate of the four-masted bark Falls of Clyde; celebrates historian/journalist/photographer/author Paul Dorpat's 87th birthday with audio recorded earlier Sunday by Jean Sherrard of Seattle Now & Then; and is joined LIVE by phone by Dawn Wynne of Spokane Preservation Advocates for a preview of their upcoming November 2, 2025 historic homes tour.

Links to information about all of these stories are available at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/groups/cascadeofhistory

This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Time on Sunday, October 26, 2025 via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streaming live via www.space101fm.org from 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 and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

Ep. 125: Gas Works Park Update, 1962 Airliner Ditching Survivor, Falls of Clyde Scuttling, Paul Dorpat Birthday, Spokane Homes Tour

Feliks Banel’s guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Wes Walker with the City of Walla Walla, WA's Parks and Recreation Department. The City of Walla Walla manages historic Mountain View Cemetery - parts of which date to the 1850s - and has received multiple grants from the State of Washington's Historic Cemetery Preservation Capital Grant Program.

Wes Walker joined CASCADE OF HISTORY to share some of Mountain View Cemetery's history, and to explain how the grant program has helped support Walla Walla’s efforts to restore and preserve the cemetery's World War I veterans' section.

The grant application deadline is coming up on December 21, 2025. Cemetery Preservation grants are a program of the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) and are administered by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation.

For more information about eligibility and how to apply and about upcoming workshops:
https://dahp.wa.gov/archaeology/cemeteriesburial-sites/historic-cemetery-grant-program

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 www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms’ quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

BONUS EPISODE: Mountain View Cemetery in Walla Walla and WA's Cemetery Preservation Grant Program

On this BONUS of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Mathew Callaghan of The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane about his story exploring the bicentennial of Fort Colville (also spelled "Colville") in the northeast corner of the Evergreen State. A history and heritage summit was held earlier in October 2025 in Chewelah, Washington, and Mr. Callaghan attended and interviewed several participants.

Link to Mathew Callaghan's story "Fort Colvile: Washington’s once-prolific 200-year-old fur trading post you may have never even heard of"
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/oct/26/fort-colvile-washingtons-once-prolific-200-year-ol/

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 www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms’ quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.


BONUS EPISODE: Mathew Callaghan of The Spokesman-Review on Fort Colville Bicentennial

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Ellen Morris Bishop, author of “Living With Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest.” The second edition was published in October 2025 by OSU Press in Corvallis, Oregon.

Ellen Morris Bishop is a geologist, photographer and award-winning author. One of her earlier titles, "In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History," received the Frances Fuller Victor Oregon Book Award in 2004.  She serves as the conservation representative on the Oregon Department of Forestry's Independent Science and Research Team and lives on the southern flank of the Wallowa Mountains not far from Halfway, Oregon.

For more information on “Living With Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest” by Ellen Morris Bishop:
https://www.osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/living-with-thunder-0

Ellen Morris Bishop's website, with info about upcoming bookstore events:
http://www.ellenmorrisbishop.com/

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 www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms’ quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

BONUS EPISODE: “Living With Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest” Author Ellen Morris Bishop

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 studios located on the shores of Lake Washington in historic Magnuson Park in Seattle, former site of Sand Point Naval Air Station (though sometimes CASCADE OF HISTORY originates from remote locations around the region). The podcast feed consists of the weekly broadcast, plus frequent bonus episodes with timely and topical interviews, vintage local audio or other Pacific Northwest history-related content - and sometimes even BREAKING NEWS.

Producer and host Feliks Banel is an Emmy-winning and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning broadcaster, and former deputy director of Seattle's Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI).

Send your questions, comments, guest suggestions, news tips and other correspondence to cascadeofhistory@gmail.com.

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