EPISODE #040: WELCOME TO DIRT-PILE CITY
We are still digging out from the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of October 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village “Dirt-Pile City,” in honor of the scenic and massive dirt piles piled alongside every road, as the bulldozers and earth-movers work all day every day to try to patch the hundreds of miles of gullies and ditches and death holes created by the violent storm.
The dirt and sand and grit and boulders and dead animals had previously been located in the mountains surrounding town, but one insane all-night thunderstorm managed to move quite a lot of the stuff in the mountains to the middle on Highway 62 through what we charitably call “Downtown Joshua Tree.”
We tell our own version of the local legend of Private Dirt and Sgt. Sand, and we hear from Phoenix schoolteacher Jenny Russell talking about a graveyard she discovered in South Phoenix—from her appearance at our Valley Bar show in Phoenix put on last summer by Aquarium Drunkard.
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We are back with strange & unusual tales from Death Valley, where the Mojave meets the Great Basin and mysterious subterranean cities of gold were supposedly found by various explorers. Did giant beings travel the skies over our deserts in sky-ships? Some Shoshone legends say Yes.
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