Episode Details

On this episode of "Columbia Conversations" - a podcast for the Washington State Historical Society which was a precursor to the independent radio program "Cascade of History" - Feliks Banel speaks with photographer, writer and historian Jean Sherrard about the big snow of February 2019. The two look at how this was the Seattle area’s first big snowstorm of the "social media era," and what this means from a historical perspective. Jean Sherrard co-produces the "Now & Then" column with Paul Dorpat for The Seattle Times, and the two also collaborate on a history and photography blog (which is the source of the image that accompanies this episode): https://www.seattletimes.com/category/now-and-then/ https://pauldorpat.com/ Founding producer and host is Feliks Banel.