We're starting the year with some favorite podcasts from the series. Harmony Heywood combined her love of history and good old fashioned paper maps into a YouTube channel called Map Adventures, where she teaches us everything from the dramatic and lesser-known stories of our region to how to properly read and fold a map.

We're ending the year with some favorite podcasts from the series. Tami Force has been all over Nevada’s back roads, exploring ghost towns and mining camps and sharing her discoveries with her online friends and family through Nevada Ghost Towns & Beyond at nvtami.com, @nvtami on social media and now through her books, In The Shadow Of The Sierra and In The Glow Of The Sierra, both published in 2025, after this episode recorded, and now available here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tami-Fo...

We're ending the year with some favorite podcasts from the series. TMCC professor Mark Maynard undertook a documentary film that took him across the state of Nevada tracing the history and stories behind the (now) official state drink, the Picon Punch. This was recorded in 2024 so a few things have changed, like the Picon's ascendance to officialdom, and the unfortunate end of "The Fe," but the story Mark tells about the history of the Picon and his journey through the production of his documentary remain fascinating. This podcast will be broadcast on PBS Reno Thursday, December 11 at 8 p.m. and repeat on Sunday, December 14 at 6.p.m.