20 years ago, a couple running a nursery in Cortez, Colorado, started looking for an apple variety that had been common in Montezuma County in the early 1900s. Jude and Addie Schuenemeyer's quest to find a Thunderbolt apple tree would change the course of their lives.

In the 1980s, Janice Sanders worked as a geologist at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton, Colorado. She loved the work, but she and other women who worked there, faced sexism and discrimination.

Each story is an audio time machine that allows listeners to explore the layers of history embedded in the landscape. Created and hosted by Adam Burke.

In Cortez, Colorado, there are no streets or parks named after Jasper Hall . But in the early 1900s he put Montezuma County on the map, growing some of the finest fruit anywhere in the US. Was his quest to turn southwest Colorado into an apple Mecca a dead end, or a blueprint for the future?