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Season Premiere | December 9
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A new season of Mossback's Northwest premieres Thursday, December 9, at 8:50 p.m.
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Airships over the Klondike | Bites
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Prospectors headed to the 1897 gold rush in Alaska had to bring tons of provisions with them. Some imagined the possibility of airships carrying freight and gold back and forth to the Klondike, and suddenly, airships were being "seen" all over the world.
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Sir Thomas Beecham's Seattle "Dustbin" | Bites
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Wealthy English aristocrat and musician Sir Thomas Beecham came to Seattle during WWII to be the Seattle Symphony's conductor for two years. Outspoken and fiery in temperament, he made a statement about Seattle's artistic life that stings citizens even today.
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When Camelot Came to the Seattle World's Fair | Bites
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Seattle World's Fair organizers desperately wanted President John F. Kennedy to visit. He couldn’t, but he did glimpse the site.
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The Centralia Tragedy | Bites
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In 1919, during an Armistice Day parade, a gun battle between Wobblies and the American Legion left five men dead.
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Northwest Oystermania | Bites
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Tiny compared to other oysters, the Olympia was for decades raked out of Washington's beds by the ton, to feeding hungry gold diggers in California and Northwestern lumbermen.
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Seattle's Ramps to Nowhere | Bites
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The ramps to an imagined expressway were built during freeway frenzy in the 1960s. Now, all but one are coming down.
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George Bush: Washington's Pioneer | Bites
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George Bush, a free black man, settled what is now known as Tumwater in 1850.
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The Great Swinomish-Husky Race of 1941 | Bites
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How a race between rival crews brought Native and UW paddlers closer to the sport — and each other.
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Mossback's Northwest Special | Coming December 29
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"You've got to be a little mad to live in this place." Mossback looks back at his favorite episodes and all the reasons we love living in the Northwest. Online now.
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