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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.
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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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.
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Mossback's Northwest: A dead pig nearly started a war with Britain
Should the San Juan Islands be on the British or American side of the border? In 1859, the two countries nearly battled over it.