Zoe Kurland
Podcast ProducerZoe comes to us from KPCC/LAist Studios in Los Angeles, where she worked as a producer. She began her audio career working with the Kitchen Sisters and interning for Marfa Public Radio. After a stint in documentary film, she returned to radio as a reporter and producer in West Texas. Zoe’s work has been featured on Marketplace and in New York Magazine, and she’s won two Regional Murrow Awards for her feature reporting. She's covered everything from LA mayoral races to cacti smuggling in the Big Bend, and is excited to be back in the desert.
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A few months back, we told you about a project we’re working on called The Desert Dispatch, and we made a sample episode with some of the submissions we received. -
StoryCorps is coming to Marfa this month, so we’re airing a selection of our favorite stories from their visit back in 2020.
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StoryCorps will be in Marfa from Feb. 16 to March 10.
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¿Tienes algo que quieras compartir en la radio? ¿Una conexión perdida? ¿Una nota para un vecino? ¿Un recuerdo? ¿Quieres simplemente gritar al vacío?
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Marfa Public Radio is working on a new show called the Desert Dispatch, centered on your voices. Got something you want to share on the radio? A missed connection? A note to a neighbor? A remembrance? Want to just shout into the void?
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El especial de recordación de dos horas se emitirá el 1 de noviembre y queremos llenar nuestras ondas de radio con recuerdos de sus amigos y familiares. | Read this story in English
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The cactus and the succulent market don’t stop at your local plant nursery. Collectors who want especially rare specimens hit the lucrative cactus black market. And many of those cacti come out of Far West Texas, where the low level of surveillance and high level of unique specimens have made it an ideal location for poachers.
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Today, Fort Stockton is pocked with dusty craters and empty canals, but this West Texas town was once known as the “Spring City of Texas." The nickname came from Comanche Springs, which flowed prolifically until the 1950s when groundwater pumping picked up and dried the springs.
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Around 76% of land in Texas is ranch and farm land and nearly all of it is family-owned. Over time, ranching has changed; nowadays, in most cases, it is…
