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# Extended Cut: How Skid Road Birthed a Literary City
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/extras/extended-cut-how-skid-road-birthed-a-literary-city-jwp94d/
- Published: 2026-03-31T22:45:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-04T03:30:11.000Z
- Description: Co-hosts Knute Berger and Stephen Hegg explore the origin story of Seattle’s libraries.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_11417746-a1ca-49d4-9d07-222333526b44, #extra

Seattle is a UNESCO City of Literature – and it's been a literary city since its founding. The first library was created even before the city was officially incorporated! Mossback hosts discuss their own love of libraries, the earliest books on Seattle’s shelves, the lasting literary impact of early pioneers Sarah and Henry Yesler & the unconventional couple’s remarkable connection to Jack London.