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Mossback's Northwest: The remarkable vision of artist Emily Carr
Meet the painter from British Columbia who evoked the 'liveness' of the Pacific Northwest's forests.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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Emily Carr’s Mysterious and Majestic Forests
The Canadian artist created landscapes unlike her contemporaries’, intuiting the web of life beneath the canopy and putting it on canvas.
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Mossback's Northwest: When Chief Joseph came to Seattle
During a 1903 visit, Chief Joseph's itinerary included an epic UW football game and an impassioned plea for justice.
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Chief Joseph’s Seattle Sojourn
He was invited to the city to talk about his storied past, but the Nez Perce chief had his eye on the future of his people.
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The disturbing Pelosi attack recalls Seattle’s Goldmark murders
State legislator John Goldmark became a political target of right-wing extremists in the 1960s. Two decades later, those accusations came to a violent head.