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EPISODE #248: MAPPING THE MOJAVE WITH COL. HENRY WASHINGTON

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Out here in the Great Mojave Wilderness, we’re always talking about Section 6 or Section 33 or Section whatever it is, but how did we get that system, that public-lands overlay? Who did the work? Tonight we tell you about . . . well, not the father of our country, but his nephew. The nephew of our country. Col. Henry Washington, the man who surveyed and plotted the baseline and the meridian back in the 1850s, the defining lines by which all other property in Southern California is measured. He named a lot of desert landmarks, too. Like “Old Woman Springs,” that’s one of his many desert place-names still on the maps and on our minds, nearly two centuries later.

This is EPISODE #248: MAPPING THE MOJAVE WITH COL. HENRY WASHINGTON. With fitting desert soundscape by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne. Listen on the radio in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert on KCDZ 107.7 FM, 10-11 p.m. Fridays.

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EPISODE #186: THE NATURE OF COLOR AND VISION

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The Nature of Color and Vision - Desert Oracle Radio - William Blake illustration

The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especially late at night, low over our western mountains. Meanwhile on the desert floor, and splashed brightly up the desert hillsides, wondrous carpets of yellow and orange and violet wildflowers delight the eye & the soul.

This is EPISODE #186 of Desert Oracle Radio, The Nature of Color & Vision, by Ken Layne and with lush new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free radio show via patreon.com/desertoracle. Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert.

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