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Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #40 | The Wizard of Earl – Ron Irwin & Earl Bogert Join us in this episode (the first of a two-part series) for stories of the B & I Circus Store, founded by Earl Irwin in 1945 in Lakewood, WA. Our guest today is Earl Irwin’s son, Ron Irwin, who ran the store for decades following his father’s passing. Ron is joined by Earl Borgert, the […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #39 | A Seattle Songbook – Dick Coolen Join us in this episode for a radiant musical memoir by pianist Dick Coolen. Long before the city’s reputation as an international tech hub, Seattle achieved a globally relevant jazz culture. Here, bands who gathered in the basements of churches, modest homes, and schools…produced the likes of Ray Charles, Ernestine Anderson, and Quincy Jones. Reared […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #38 | Seattle Rock City – David B. Williams Join us in this episode for the field trip of a century. Our guest, geologist-historian David B. Williams, illuminates the Pacific Northwest’s characteristic highlands and waterways as landscapes of perpetual transformation. With a wry wink, this raconteur’s stories fuse the sensitivity of a naturalist with the diligence of a research geek. Amble through Seattle with […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #37 | Club of Caballeros – Tim Person & Ms. Ellen Smith Join us in this episode and step inside the Ray Gibson Caballeros Club with Tim Person (President & CEO) and Ms. Ellen Smith (Manager). In the 1950’s, two trailblazing African American men grew weary of exclusion from downtown Tacoma’s restaurants, concert halls and bars. They envisioned a member-owned, private club for the city’s Black community. […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #36 | An Orcas Ethos – Craig Gibson Join us in this episode as we explore the rural culture of Orcas Island with Craig Gibson, fourth-generation owner of North Beach Inn (NBI), located on the outskirts of the remote village of Eastsound. Craig’s forebears acquired the 100-acre waterfront fruit farm in 1911. In 1932 they constructed a handful of the 16-rustic cottages now […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #35 | Power of HaMakom – Mary Potter Join us in this episode for a conversation with a wise friend about the deepest matters of the heart. Our guest is theologian, novelist, and mystic Mary Lane Potter.Mary’s quest for a closer relationship with the divine stretches from her childhood in an immigrant community steeped in the traditions of Christian Reform evangelism; to her Ph.D. at the […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #34 | Black, Green & Emerald – Anthony and Marlie Love In this episode, we catch up with Anthony & Marlie Love, travel vloggers and creators of the YouTube show Traveling While Black in Seattle and @TWBSeattle on TikTok. A local married couple, they travel together to various Pacific Northwest destinations and share their comfort level as Black people visiting there for the first time. After three […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #33 | Digging Gig Harbor – Stephanie Lile & Riley Hall Join us in this episode for a conversation with Stephanie Lile, director of Gig Harbor’s Harbor History Museum, together with the Museum’s shipwright Riley Hall. They chronicle their community’s historic working waterfront for more than a century by sharing stories embedded in the museum’s collection of over 20,000 objects, images & ephemera. These objects include […]
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Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #32 | ALMA Matters – Lisa Fruichantie Join us in this episode for a conversation with Lisa Fruichantie, citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and Executive Director of ALMA, an expansive campus carved out of an old union hall anchored within Tacoma’s historic Hilltop neighborhood. This multifaceted business and venue are devoted to creating community by incubating and presenting a diverse range art, food, culture […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #31 | Love and Comics – Eric Reynolds Join us in this episode for a conversation with Eric Reynolds, Vice-President of Seattle-based publisher Fantagraphics. Headquartered in Seattle’s Maple Leaf community-with their Bookstore & Gallery in the industrial Georgetown neighborhood-Fantagraphics has quietly produced a stunning body of work over the last 40+ years.  Their genres span alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #30 | Storied Sidewalks – Susanna Ryan Join us in this episode for a conversation with Instagram phenom Susanna Ryan, author of the Seattle Walk Report Series; Seattle Walk Report an Illustrated Walking Tour Through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods (2019) and Secret Seattle, An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Offbeat and Overlooked History (2021). Susanna’s distinctive comic style and eagle eye illustrate the charming and quirky people, places, and things that […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place #29 | Once Upon a Blue Moon – Timothy Dooley Pull up a bar stool and join us in this episode for a conversation with Timothy Dooley-regular, bartender and now owner of the historic Seattle tavern, the “Blue Moon.” Founded in 1934 just after Prohibition to serve mostly college students, the Blue Moon has since been serving up a heady mix of politics, poetry, visual […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place #28 | Anchored in Asotin – Michael Hoover Join us in this episode for a conversation with Michael Hoover. Michael was recently granted clemency­-from a life prison sentence without chance of parole-by the Governor of the State of Washington. Michael’s is a cautionary tale…on remaining anchored to place; and to people. An upbringing of affluence in Woodway, Washington failed to protect Michael from […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #27 | Place-Based Fictions – Jim Lynch Welcome to our first podcast episode of 2022. Beginning with this episode, EK on the Go is now Power of Place, Stories of the Pacific Northwest, with a new appearance and soundscape. In this episode we will hear from one of Pacific Northwest’s most acclaimed living novelists, Jim Lynch. Jim’s approach to storytelling reflects both […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place #26: Crafting Heavens of Earth – Richard Hartlage Join us in our final episode of 2021 with guest Richard Hartlage, Founder & CEO of Land Morphology. His firm has designed gardens for the Chihuly Garden and Glass at Seattle Center, the upcoming 20-acre Seattle Waterfront Park, and the private gardens of celebrities and CEO’s nationwide. Richard will explain how thoughtful and intelligent garden […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #25 | Dingbats & Thunderbirds – Tom Heuser & Lana Blinderman Join us in this episode for a conversation with Tom Heuser, President of the Capitol Hill Historic Society, and artist-photographer Lana Blinderman about the distinctive though oft-overlooked architectural history of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. For decades, the Hill’s midcentury apartments and condominiums provided architectural ambiance and offered relatively affordable housing, becoming spaces for communities and […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #24 | Mount Epiphany – Nick Bratton Join us in this episode to hear from Nick Bratton, Senior Director of Policy for Forterra. Since 1989, Forterra has secured over 275,000 acres of land through over 450 land transactions. From the farmlands and river canyons of Yakima to the estuaries and forests of Washington’s coastline, Forterra safeguards a healthy environment. The organization also […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #23 | Another Golden Age – Doreen Alhadeff Join us in this episode with Doreen Alhadeff, co-founder of the Seattle Sephardic Network and the first Jewish American to receive Spanish citizenship under a 2015 law permitting descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century to apply for citizenship. Enjoy Doreen’s reminiscences about her childhood and youth in multiethnic Seward Park. Doreen […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #22 | Hardware Store Homer – Mark Holtzen Join us in this episode with Mark Holtzen, author of A Ticket to the Pennant, a children’s storybook exploring Seattle’s Rainier Valley, circa 1955, through the eyes of a young baseball fan. This was the era of Sick’s Stadium, home of the Seattle Rainiers, who played in the now-defunct Pacific Coast League. Mark’s ingenious narrative […]
Power of Place 🎧 Power of Place Episode #21 | Riddles of Eden Hill – Marga Rose Hancock Join us in this episode with Marga Rose Hancock and Rosalie Daggett, board members of the Queen Anne Historical Society. Marga and Rosalie walk us through the delights of Queen Anne. One of Seattle’s oldest neighborhoods, Queen Anne is a vibrant collage of stately Old Seattle mansions, charming hilltop parks, and urban amenities, including some […]
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