TERRITORIES

In the historic settlement of Tiffany, Colorado, a tiny church is almost a hundred years old. The adobe is crumbing, the walls are held together by steel cables. But the church is still open for mass once a year. Meet the woman who plays the old pump organ in the Iglesia de San Antonio. Image, courtesy of Ruth Lambert. © Magic City Studios, llc Chapters (00:00:02) - Old National Organ

In the late 1950s, residents living along the Piedra and San Juan Rivers learned that their communities would be condemned and indundated by reservoir water. By the early 1960s, a federal water reclamation project known as Navajo Dam started flooding these river valleys in in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. This episode tells the story of what happened to Raymond Gallegos' family when t...

In Colorado's history of hardrock mining, there are almost no women who worked underground. But in the 1970s and 1980s, legal action and new labor laws pushed mining companies to begin hiring a few women. Janice Sanders was one of them. She worked as a geologist at the Sunnyside Mine, near Silverton, Colorado. Sanders loved geology, she loved working underground, but the sexism and discrimination...

This is the story of how a couple from Cortez, Colorado became apple detectives 20 years ago. Jude and Addie Schuenemeyer were running a nursery selling plants and trees, when they found out about an apple variety that had all but vanished: the Thunderbolt. It was a trail of breadcrumbs that led them into a nearly lost world of orchards in the arid hills and sandstone canyons of southwest Colorado...

In the early 1900s, a man from eastern Tennessee built an apple economy in Montezuma County. Jasper Hall was known as the Fruit Wizard of Montezuma County, and for decades it seemed he had succeeded. These days, there are only remnant orchards in southwest Colorado, and the heritage apple trees planted at the end of the 19th century are dying off. Was Jasper Hall's life an historic footnote? Or wa...