Culture
How the Gold Rush inspired Seattle's early aerospace innovation
Locals looked to dirigibles, blimps and airships long before Boeing landed.
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Hold the turkey: early Puget Sound settlers ate oysters, ducks and geese
Awkward political conversation was also on the menu.
Focus
How Washington's 'summer of fire' nearly destroyed Seattle, Spokane and Ellensburg
On the cusp of becoming a state, the Washington territory suffered three major fires that would change the course of history.
Culture
How Washington’s most infamous bridge failure helped engineers prevent more
On this episode of Mossback's Northwest, Knute Berger looks back at what Puget Sound learned from the Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster.
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Ted Bundy is still a cultural phenomenon. The real story is much scarier
VIDEO: On this episode of Mossback's Northwest [https://crosscut.com/mossbacks-northwest], host Knute Berger looks back at March 12, 1974, when a young student left her Evergreen State College apartment and never returned.