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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
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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Mossback's Northwest: Songs for justice at the Canadian border
When the government took his passport, civil rights activist Paul Robeson sang for thousands atop a truck at Blaine's Peace Arch.
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Mossback's Northwest: Was Seattle too tough for Wyatt Earp?
The West's most famous lawman went from gunfighting in Tombstone, Arizona, to opening a gambling parlor in Seattle's Tenderloin neighborhood.
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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.