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Mossback

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Video | D.B. Cooper: Folk Hero or Terrorist?

Fifty years after Cooper skyjacked an airplane over Washington, attitudes toward the incident have changed.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ December 10, 2021
Three rows of Mossback bobbleheads
Inside Cascade PBS

How Mossback went from a state of mind to TV series

Season 5 of Mossback's Northwest surfaces new details on familiar stories and brings less-known PNW lore to life.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ December 8, 2021
confederate flags fly in Washington
Mossback

When the Confederate flag flew in Seattle

Seattle was far removed from the epicenter of hostilities, but the post-Civil War culture war flared up here.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ December 1, 2021
Mayor Gill on The Seattle Star front page
Opinion

Recall in Seattle: The roots and realities of a populist process

The effort to remove city councilmember Kshama Sawant is just the latest in a litany of attempted ousters that began in the Progressive Era.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ May 20, 2021
Host Knute Berger stands in a Palouse wheat field.
Culture

Mossback's Northwest: The Palouse cowboy who inspired John Wayne

Hollywood’s greatest Western stuntman was a rodeo champion from Washington state.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ January 22, 2021
Host Knute Berger with sake being poured into a cup
Culture

Mossback's Northwest: The bootleg sake of Prohibition-era Seattle

Prohibition couldn’t stop every drinking habit. One particular Japanese tradition never went dry.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ January 15, 2021
Host Knute Berger stands in front of Ayer Pond, on Orcas Island
Culture

Mossback’s Northwest: The ancient bison hunters of the San Juans

The discovery of 14,000-year-old bones on Orcas Island means humans were BBQing a lot earlier than previously thought.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ January 8, 2021
Knute Berger at the Eddy Ranch where Harry Tracy was caught and killed in 1902.
Culture

Mossback's Northwest: The Washington outlaw who couldn't be caught

Harry Tracy terrorized the state from one end to the other, even as newspaper readers couldn't get enough of his criminal adventures.

by / December 25, 2020
Knute Berger remembers the 1976 opening of the KIngdome.
Culture

Mossback’s Northwest: The rise and fall of Seattle’s Kingdome

The Seahawks and Mariners called it home for 24 years, but now much of the city doesn’t even know the stadium existed.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ December 18, 2020
Knute Berger holds a Japanese glass float
Culture

Mossback's Northwest: When Japanese castaways wash up on local shores

Flotsam from Asia reaches Washington's beaches all the time. But sometimes other stuff comes ashore, like people.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ December 11, 2020
Knute Berger is dressed for the cold, and for the 'Seattle Freeze"
Culture

Mossback's Northwest: The true history of the 'Seattle Freeze'

Locals have been infamous for icing out newcomers since World War I.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ December 4, 2020
Mayor Durkan at a rally
Opinion

Being Seattle’s mayor has never been easy

Amid calls for her resignation, Jenny Durkan can take cold comfort in the fact that she’s not the first to struggle in the job.

by
  • Knute Berger
/ June 25, 2020
Host Knute Berger with a replica of a turn-of-the-century airship
Culture

Mossback's Northwest: Gold fever launched Seattle’s aerospace obsession

The idea of airships delivering provisions to the 1897 Alaskan gold fields gave rise to global sightings of fantastical flying machines.

by / May 22, 2020
Knute Berger and one of the 'ramps to nowhere' being demolished.
News

Mossback’s Northwest: An end to Seattle’s ramps to nowhere

Seattle's 'Ramps to Nowhere,' built 50 years ago to feed an imagined expressway, are finally coming down.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ May 15, 2020
Host Knute Berger holds a plate shard found at Bush Prairie
Culture

Mossback’s Northwest: The Black pioneer who launched the Puget Sound settlement

Escaping a racist Oregon law, a man named George Bush became one of Washington’s most important homesteaders.

by
  • Knute Berger &
  • Stephen Hegg
/ May 8, 2020
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