The Resident Historian is a twice-weekly podcast from KIRO Newsradio's Feliks Banel. Each episode includes either Feliks's Wednesday history feature from Seattle's Morning News, or the weekly Friday morning installment of the history and geography series All Over The Map.
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In the early days of aviation a century ago, an oil company painted town names in giant letters on top of their buildings to help pilots find their way.
Iconic Taco Time restaurant shutting down
Pearl Harbor hero hails from Port Angeles
While its origins as an airfield date back to the early months of World War II, the Port of Seattle is marking 75 years of Sea-Tac Airport.
The work being completed in Issaquah to convert the old XXX Root Beer to a Burgermaster has revealed a key feature of the original drive-in which had been hidden for years.
The battle of the Middle School Fight Songs
We caught up with Stephanie Johnson-Toliver, president of the Black Heritage Society of Washington.
For this week's edition of All Over The Map, KIRO Newsradio visited the grave of Chief Sealth at Suquamish Memorial Cemetery and spoke with Suquamish Tribal Chair Leonard Forsman live during "Seattle’s Morning News."
In the final spring and summer of Washington’s territorial era, fires ravaged major sections of downtowns on both sides of the Cascades, from Seattle, to Ellensburg, to Spokane.
Feliks Banel discussed the 1889 Seattle fire on "Seattle's Morning News" on its 135th anniversary on June 6, 2024.