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Your fearless field guide, Erich Ebel, takes you on an exciting and entertaining trip to explore the history, heritage and culture of the greatest state in the lower 48. Washington is filled with fascinating stories, mysterious myths and legends, and unbelievable tales you’ll simply have to hear for yourself. Discover lost cities and natural wonders. Relive horrifying massacres and disasters. Survive in the wild frontier. Fight in the Treaty Wars. Track down clues to unsolved mysteries. Washington State Historian Erich Ebel tells stories of the state like none you’ve heard before.
A vanished waterfall and fuel cans fished from a river: your Washington rabbit hole starts here.
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A clear-eyed visit to Washington's coastal fort network, where grand defenses quickly became relics.
Washington State's Triangle of Fire comes through as a coastal defense system with a name more durable than its purpose. The episode follows the forts built around Puget Sound at the turn of the 20th century, then settles into the concrete reality of batteries, mortars,…
A vivid Dry Falls visit that moves from Ice Age floods to Banks Lake without losing the place's scale.
Dry Falls gives Washington, Our Home a subject with real sweep: a lost Ice Age waterfall later folded into central Washington's irrigation story.
A grounded Rainier story where glaciers, failed climbs, and stewardship meet Washington history.
Mount Rainier is framed as a record of Washington's shifting terrain, shaped by fire, ice, eruptions, landslides, glaciers, rivers, forests, and valleys.
A Washington outlaw episode that follows Harry Tracy from prison escape into a tense Puget Sound pursuit.
Washington Our Home frames Harry Tracy as a violent remnant of the frontier colliding with a region moving into modern life. The episode traces his prison escape, the killings of guards and deputies, and the chase that carries him through forests, wheat fields, Puget Sound, and…
A Spokane aviation record becomes a clear-eyed story of daring, refueling, and ambition narrowed by risk.
Washington Our Home treats a Spokane aviation feat as more than a stunt, framing it as a story about endurance, quick repair, and the risky confidence surrounding commercial flight in 1929.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Eric Ebel traces Washington’s Triangle of Fire to the 1885 Endicott Board, the $127 million coastal-defense program, and seven forts built to protect Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, and Bremerton.
The Blue Lake Rhino Cave is a 15-million-year-old lava mold, not a traditional cavern.
Washington Our Home's "Mount Rainier" traces the mountain from 40-million-year-old sandstone and shale layers to the modern cone that began rising about 500,000 years ago.
Washington Our Home follows Harry Tracy from the June 9, 1902 Oregon State Penitentiary breakout to the manhunt that spread across Seattle, Bainbridge Island, and eastern Washington.
Washington Our Home traces Nick Maymer and Art Walker's 1929 flight in the Buell CA-6 Sesquiplane, the red Spokane Sun God, from Feltz Field on August 15 to the return over Spokane five days later.
This episode teaches listeners how to correctly pronounce Native American tribal names found throughout Washington state.
This episode explores the origin stories and pronunciation of Washington state's city and town names.
This episode explores the history of Riderwood, Washington, a small town with a unique timber-based origin.
This episode begins a three-part series on correctly pronouncing Washington State's tricky county, city, and geographic names.