HeyJaredExploring Washington State
What if you could sit down at your favorite coffee shop with the most interesting people in Washington State?Every episode does exactly that.
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Voluntold: How Brian Alley Ended Up Running a Folk Festival in Winthrop (opens the original)
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Brian Alley spent years on the road with Never Come Down, a Portland band that played bluegrass instruments and anything from Gillian Welch to Ween. They played Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco and a hostel stage in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves. Then Brian settled in the Methow Valley, offered to help a small festival called Cidergrass with its booking, and by spring realized he was running the whole thing. He was voluntold. That festival is now the Winthrop Folk N Roots Fest, bac
He Has One Roll of Film Left. John Shephard's Panoramic Washington (opens the original)
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John Shephard has spent three decades photographing Washington State on Fujichrome Velvia 50, using two cameras nobody makes anymore. One of them has a lens mounted on a rotating cylinder that takes two minutes and twenty seconds to complete a single exposure. It started at five in the morning in a Skagit Valley tulip field in 1999, when he met an Australian photographer named Ken Duncan and ended up spending four years as his assistant, two of them living in Australia. Now John has made his own
Not a Bog, a Fen: Inside the $1.5 Million Save of Bonaparte Meadows (opens the original)
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Kate Miller is the executive director of the Okanogan Land Trust, a nonprofit with two staff and an intern that protects working farms and ranches, wildlife habitat and water resources across Okanogan and western Ferry counties. Scott recorded this in their office in the town of Okanogan, in the county of Okanogan, a naming situation he admits gets him every time. Kate did not plan this career. She was born in Chapel Hill, grew up overseas while her father worked in global public health, went to
Greasy Fingerprints on a Beam: Inside Fort Flagler and Fort Worden (opens the original)
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Kelsey Lang looks after the museums at Fort Flagler and Fort Worden, and she lives at one of them. She grew up in central Florida, an hour north of Orlando. Her husband went looking for the rainiest place in the country that also had mountains, Washington came up, and after years of applying they made the move during COVID with a dog who could not fly and a U Haul driven by a hired stranger. Her degree is in marine science with minors in biology and geology, which is not the resume you expect fr
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