The Desert Speaks

Dying Traditions in a Mexican Pueblo (19x9)

Air date: Feb 10, 2011

Host David Yetman takes a trip to the foothills of the Sierra Madre, where traditions are slowly dying out as the big cities draw the local populations away from the small towns and traditional ways of life. Yetman stops in the town of Santo Thomas to see a donkey-powered pinole grinder made of stone and a kitchen garden. He then heads to agrarian community of Sahuaripa to visit its talabartería (a leather goods shop) and call upon the last remaining weaver of palm hats and baskets.