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West Texas Wonders
We know your curiosity about West Texas isn't limited to our focus areas. What other sorts of odds and ends do you wonder about?Maybe you want to know more about a local celebrity, an architectural oddity, or a mysterious phenomenon.Silly or serious, big or small, nothing's off limits! Ask away.
Episodes
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'The Bills Aren't Stopping': Marfa Hairstylist Describes Struggle To Make Ends Meet
As part of our West Texas Wonders journalism initiative, we're asking you to tell us how you and your loved ones have been affected by the pandemic.
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Why Do Texans Put Saguaro Cacti On Everything When They Don't Grow Here?
By Sally Beauvais
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What's The Deal With All The "In Tow" Junk Cars On The Interstate In Texas?
If you do much highway driving in Texas, it's a familiar sight: old, rusted trucks packed to the gills with toys, motor oil, textiles, and building materials traveling down the interstate.
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Front Doors, Bighorn Sheep, Buried Treasure And The Toe Nail Trail With The Rambling Boy
The Rambling Boy teams up with Marfa Public Radio's Sally Beauvais in an attempt to answer some of the tough history questions that have been submitted to West Texas Wonders.
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The Odessa Meteor Crater: A Subtle Feature Tells a Cosmic Story
Listener Josh Knight asked West Texas Wonders whether the meteor crater in Odessa was actually produced by a crash, and, if so, what ecological impact that collision might have had.
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The Burro Lady, Rainfall and Marriage, Old Roads And Gas Stations With The Rambling Boy
Rachel Maxwell of Alpine wants to know what the highest level of education the Burro Lady achieved was. Harry Hudson of Dallas wants to know how Mrs. Kerr of Fort Stockton's marriage proposal related to rainfall. Gretchen Coles of Marfa wonders what route Old Ft. Davis Road followed from Marfa to...
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An Astrobleme, And Hotel History With The Rambling Boy
Listeners Linda Beranek, Guadalupe Espinoza, and Josh Knight are among many Marfa Public Radio listeners who have submitted questions about esoteric local history to West Texas Wonders.
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How Accurate Is The Saying, "For Every Bar In Odessa There's A Church In Midland?"
Today we’re diving into a question from our West Texas Wonders series and this one is taking us to the Permian Basin. Sarah Ross Kelliher, a librarian at the Midland Centennial Library, asked us to get to the bottom of the saying, “For every bar in Odessa there’s a church in Midland.”
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Faulting and Fracking: Exploring the History of Earthquakes in West Texas
Listener Ken Richards has always noticed the unique fragments and features of the Big Bend. "I assume some of that, a lot of that, moved around by earthquake,” says Richards. “But I'm wondering if it's seismically active now.”
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Without Hospice, Who Gets To Die In The Big Bend?
By Sally Beauvais
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The Cone-Nose and Chagas Disease: West Texas Realities to Reckon With
Listener Rachel Monroe was preparing recently for a Big Bend river trip. It was summer, and she thought she and her companion, a park ranger, could sleep in the open air, under the stars. But the ranger rejected that idea – emphatically. The borderlands, the ranger said, are home to a…
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The Rough-Footed Mud Turtle: A Water-Lover in a Parched Land
What kinds of turtles live around Marfa? The question comes from Nathan Stueve. The answer we found surprised us.
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We know your curiosity about West Texas isn't limited to our focus areas. What other sorts of odds and ends do you wonder about?Maybe you want to know more about a local celebrity, an architectural oddity, or a mysterious phenomenon.Silly or serious, big or small, nothing's off limits! Ask away.
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We know your curiosity about West Texas isn't limited to our focus areas. What other sorts of odds and ends do you wonder about?Maybe you want to know more about a local celebrity, an architectural oddity, or a mysterious phenomenon.Silly or serious, big or small, nothing's off limits! Ask away.
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