Ep. 53: Belt Line & Wilburton Trestle, Big Snow of 2019, and Fircrest Chapel

08/01/2024 59 min
Ep. 53: Belt Line & Wilburton Trestle, Big Snow of 2019, and Fircrest Chapel

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Episode Synopsis

Feliks Banel’s guests on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Jack Christensen, longtime Northern Pacific employee on the history of the Belt Line and the Wilburton Trestle (recorded in 2017); Jean Sherrard on the social-media snowstorm of February 2019 (recorded in 2019); Janet Way on the Fircrest Chapel in Shoreline being added to the National Register of Historic Places; and the fourth and final heartbreaking installment in the 1951 vintage “Blackie of Naches Valley” episode of the Seattle centennial educational radio program “Their Name Was Courage.”

This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, January 7, 2024 via SPACE 101.1 FM and streaming live via space101fm.org from studios at historic Magnuson Park – formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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