West Texas Wonders
We know your curiosity about West Texas isn't limited to our focus areas. What other sorts of odds and ends do you wonder about?
Maybe you want to know more about a local celebrity, an architectural oddity, or a mysterious phenomenon.
Silly or serious, big or small, nothing's off limits! Ask away.
Latest Episodes
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You might associate Marfa for a lot of things, the mysterious lights in the desert, the concrete, minimal art. But you might not hear a lot about Marfa’s military history. -
What kinds of turtles live around Marfa? The question comes from Nathan Stueve. The answer we found surprised us. For this episode, West Texas Wonders is… -
Listener Rachel Monroe was preparing recently for a Big Bend river trip. It was summer, and she thought she and her companion, a park ranger, could sleep… -
By Sally BeauvaisMore than a fifth of the people who call the vast Big Bend region of West Texas home are 65 or older, according to census data from 2016.… -
Listener Ken Richards has always noticed the unique fragments and features of the Big Bend. "I assume some of that, a lot of that, moved around by… -
Today we’re diving into a question from our West Texas Wonders series and this one is taking us to the Permian Basin. Sarah Ross Kelliher, a librarian at… -
Listeners Linda Beranek, Guadalupe Espinoza, and Josh Knight are among many Marfa Public Radio listeners who have submitted questions about esoteric local… -
Rachel Maxwell of Alpine wants to know what the highest level of education the Burro Lady achieved was. Harry Hudson of Dallas wants to know how Mrs. Kerr… -
By Mitch Borden It doesn’t take much to see the Permian Basin’s economy is doing pretty well right now. Just look at Midland and Odessa, the two cities’… -
Listener Josh Knight asked West Texas Wonders whether the meteor crater in Odessa was actually produced by a crash, and, if so, what ecological impact…
