This is an episode in the series Hearing Voices from NPR now being offered as a standalone special.

Host: Scott Carrier of Hearing Voices

Summary: Scott Carrier has a cultural history of the Great Salt Lake's "West Desert," a land of polygymists, bombing ranges, and toxic waste incinerators. There's chlorine gas in the air, anthrax stored underground, and people who call the place home.

Sarah Vowell's childhood move from rural Oklahoma to small-town Montana was, for her, a change from the middle ages to a modern metropolis.

And two Stories from the Heart of the Land: NYC native Natalie Edwards hates grass, bugs, dirt, and trees, but attempts a walk thru Brooklyn's Prospect Park; and Carmen Delzell tells why she moved to and has stayed in Mexico.

Listener info and links:
http://hearingvoices.com/news/2009/07/hv017-no-place-like-home/

0:15 On-Air Promo Text: This week on Hearing Voices from NPR, "No Place Like Home," Scott Carrier hosts stories about the places people call home. That's Hearing Voices, AIRTIME on STATION."

This is an episode in the series Hearing Voices from NPR now being offered as a standalone special.

Host: Scott Carrier of Hearing Voices

Summary: Scott Carrier has a cultural history of the Great Salt Lake's "West Desert," a land of polygymists, bombing ranges, and toxic waste incinerators. There's chlorine gas in the air, anthrax stored underground, and people who call the place home.

Sarah Vowell's childhood move from rural Oklahoma to small-town Montana was, for her, a change from the middle ages to a modern metropolis.

And two Stories from the Heart of the Land: NYC native Natalie Edwards hates grass, bugs, dirt, and trees, but attempts a walk thru Brooklyn's Prospect Park; and Carmen Delzell tells why she moved to and has stayed in Mexico.

Listener info and links:
http://hearingvoices.com/news/2009/07/hv017-no-place-like-home/

0:15 On-Air Promo Text: This week on Hearing Voices from NPR, "No Place Like Home," Scott Carrier hosts stories about the places people call home. That's Hearing Voices, AIRTIME on STATION."