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Minoru Yamasaki portrait
Mossback

Podcast | The Seattle native who brought serenity to skyscrapers

Season
5
,
Episode
6
/ May 17, 2024

Minoru Yamasaki was among the most influential architects of the 20th century. Knute Berger tells the story.

Knute Berger in the Mossback Den
Mossback

Mossback’s Northwest: How architect Minoru Yamasaki designed the future

Born in Seattle’s Japantown, he rose from hardship to build aspirational icons like the Pacific Science Center and the World Trade Center.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ May 17, 2024
Still from Architect of Hope and Tragedy
Mossback's Northwest

How architect Minoru Yamasaki designed the future

Born in Seattle’s Japantown, he rose from hardship to build aspirational icons like the Pacific Science Center and the World Trade Center.

May 17, 2024
Justice William O. Douglas leads a group of hikers Olympic coast
Mossback

Podcast | The protest hike that stopped an Olympic coast highway

Season
5
,
Episode
5
/ May 10, 2024

Environmental activist Polly Dyer teamed up with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in the 1950s to keep a stretch of Washington wild.

Stephen Hegg and Knute Berger
Mossback

Mossback’s Northwest: Early WA eco-advocacy captured in color

A lost film from the ’50s details a beach hike devised by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice to save a pristine stretch of the Olympic Peninsula coast.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ May 10, 2024
Still from Upon Further Review: The Beach Hike
Mossback's Northwest

Upon Further Review: The Beach Hike

A Supreme Court Justice, an environmental activist, a lost film and a stunt that saved a pristine part of the Northwest.

May 10, 2024
Knute Berger poses with a stuffed buffalo.
Mossback

Mossback’s Northwest: Seattle loved Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show

The frontiersman’s act, a blend of the sensational and the authentic, helped construct the myth of the West in the country’s collective imagination.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ May 3, 2024
Still from Where Buffalo Bill Roamed
Mossback's Northwest

Seattle loved Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show

The frontiersman’s act, a blend of the sensational and the authentic, helped construct the myth of the West in the country’s collective imagination.

May 3, 2024
Ivar Haglund surrounded by acres of clams
Mossback

Podcast | Meet the clam, the PNW’s most beloved bivalve

Season
5
,
Episode
3
/ April 26, 2024

Folk songs, clam bakes, aquaculture and more: Knute Berger explores the myriad ways clams have shaped our region’s culture.

Knute Berger as Mossback
Mossback

Mossback’s Northwest: Keep Clam and Carry On

From Indigenous origin stories to restaurateur Ivar Haglund, the bivalves have become an edible emblem of Puget Sound beaches.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ April 26, 2024
Still from Keep Clam and Carry On
Mossback's Northwest

Keep Clam and Carry On

From Indigenous origin stories to restaurateur Ivar Haglund, the bivalves have become an edible emblem of Puget Sound beaches.

April 26, 2024
Knute Berger stands inside a vintage train car
Northwest Reports

Podcast | Behind the scenes of Mossback’s audio storytelling

Season
1
,
Episode
67
/ April 24, 2024

Producer Sara Bernard offers a peek into how the moss is made and teases what lies in wait for listeners in the podcast’s fifth season.

Boeing Wonderland houses
Mossback

Podcast | Boeing’s WWII camouflage stunt that fooled the world

Season
5
,
Episode
2
/ April 12, 2024

The company’s Plant 2 was so crucial that the military asked Hollywood to hide it from the enemy. Knute Berger shares the story.

Knute Berger as Mossback
Mossback

Mossback’s Northwest: How Hollywood helped produce a Boeing cover-up

During WWII, a movie set designer helped camouflage the factory where B-17 Flying Fortresses were built. Did it work?

by
  • Knute Berger
/ April 12, 2024
Men recovering bodies from the train wreck near Wellington, WA
Mossback

Podcast | Deadly avalanches that made Pacific Northwest history

Season
5
,
Episode
1
/ April 5, 2024

Back-to-back disasters in Washington and B.C. killed more than 150 people in 1910. Knute Berger digs into the traumatic circumstances and their fallout.

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