A 'force to be reckoned with,' remembering REI seamstress Delia Cano Today, REI has over 15,000 employees, but in the early 1960s, one employee, Delia Cano, a Peruvian immigrant to Seattle, was responsible for sewing many of their earliest products. She recently passed, and KUOW’s Soundside spoke with two of her children about her personal and professional legacy. Alex Rochester Libby Denkmann Sarah Leibovitz Play AudioListen 7 mins
Hear it again: A picture is worth a thousand words This Thanksgiving week we’re revisiting some of our best stories of the year so far. Today, we’re looking back on our favorite segments about images and the stories they tell about us. Mike Davis Libby Denkmann Alec Cowan Play AudioListen 59 mins
A musician's love for Olympia inspires a 40-song album There are many things that inspire people to write songs, and for local musician Tom Dyer it was his hometown of Olympia. He was so inspired that he wrote not just one song about the state capitol, but 40. They make up his latest album, Olympia - A True Story. He shared an account of the album’s genesis and creation with KUOW’s “Soundside.” Alex Rochester Libby Denkmann Play AudioListen 7 mins
Lighting the way for 150 years: Yaquina Head Lighthouse prepares for sesquicentennial The stewards of Oregon's tallest lighthouse are sprucing up the popular landmark on Oregon's central coast for its 150th anniversary in 2023. Tom Banse
Oil, homesteading, and a complicated family legacy: Erika Bolstad's 'Windfall' Journalist Erika Bolstad inherited the right to drill oil under part of her great-grandmother's homestead in North Dakota. Instead, she dug up the truth behind family legends and wrestled with the ethics of land ownership and fossil fuels in the American West. Libby Denkmann Alec Cowan Play AudioListen 29 mins
Chinatown-International District grapples with losing 2 community newspapers and ‘their voice’ Two Seattle newspapers focused on the Asian community stopped printing this month. Many advocates and residents of the Chinatown-International District say they fear they’ll be left without a voice and a way to safely advocate for their neighborhood. Natalie Akane Newcomb Play AudioListen 5 mins
Healing generational trauma of Japanese Americans through art This month marks the 81st anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the World War II order that forcibly removed Japanese Americans on the West Coast and placed them into camps. Many of those who were incarcerated held American citizenship. Natalie Akane Newcomb Play AudioListen 2 mins
Words In Review: Police fleeing SPD; Residents leaving town. Is this a Seattle 'exodus'? Bill Radke talks with Jacob Beckert, a PhD candidate in the U.W. History Department who specializes in Jewish Studies, about what qualifies as an "exodus." Bill Radke Play AudioListen 9 mins
The cherry trees are safe outside of Pike Place Market — for now The city of Seattle has postponed its plans to chop down the cherry trees outside of Pike Place Market, after preservation activists petitioned the mayor and city council in the 11th hour, asking them to "stay the execution." Paige Browning Play AudioListen 1 min
A Native grandma smuggled her grandkids out of their abusive boarding school. She hid them in the mountains One time, when my gram/Tupa came to visit, she waited for the nuns to be busy doing something else, and she said, “Get in the car.” I was 8 years old when we were taken to boarding school. Pam “Twoyah” James-Sinix
