The Bing Crosby home. The Gonzaga University library. With Comcast’s proud support, this weekend, on Sept. 2 and 3, the C-SPAN Cities Tour takes its cameras to these and other places to explore Spokane’s rich history and literary culture.
The individual segments will air throughout the weekend and also show in special blocks:
- Book TV Spokane: 4:30 p.m. Saturday Sept. 2 on C-SPAN2, Comcast channel 28
- American History TV Spokane: 11 a.m. Sunday Sept. 3 on C-SPAN3, Comcast channel 150.
Here’s more about those shows:
Book TV (C-SPAN2) – Sept. 2 at 4:30 p.m.
Learn more about Spokane’s history and economic development with Tony Bamonte, author of “Spokane, Our Early History: Under All is the Land.” Also featured is local author James Hunt and his book “Restless Fires: Young John Muir’s Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf” in which he examines the impact a walk from Kentucky to Florida in 1867-1868 had on the young Muir’s development of environmental thought.
Other features this weekend include:
- “Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America” by Linda Hunt
- The May Arkwright Hutton Collection held at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, highlighted by Nancy Engles
- “Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest” by Jack Nisbet
- “African Americans in Spokane” by Jerrelene Williamson
American History TV (C-SPAN3) – Sept. 3 at 11 a.m.
C-SPAN will feature the story of Expo ’74, one of the first environmentally themed World’s Fairs. The channel will also visit the childhood home of Spokane-native Bing Crosby with Bill Stimson, pictured above, as C-SPAN explores the American icon’s roots and his cultural legacy.
Other features this weekend include:
- The Campbell House – with Marsha Rooney, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
- Gonzaga University Archives and Special Collections Foley Center Library – with Stephanie Plowman, pictured above
- History of James O’Sullivan and the Grand Coulee Dam Collection
- Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal Collection
- Military Aviation in Spokane– with Wes Walton at the historic Felts Field
C-SPAN will also air an interview with Spokane Mayor David Condon. His office even made a short video about C-SPAN: you can see it at https://vimeo.com/224677879
Visit C-SPAN’s Spokane city page, where each segment will be available to view after it airs. All video segments will be available indefinitely in the C-SPAN Video Library. For more information, visit www.c-span.org/citiestour
