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Explore the dust bowl roots of country music in California through interviews with California music icons Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and Dwight Yoakam. Grammy Award-winning musicians Michael Martin Murphey and Vince Gill also reflect on the importance of the Bakersfield sound on the country music scene.

Facing an uncertain future, witness how Northern Californians confront water scarcity. In the new normal of what once was the California dream, activists, commercial fishermen, farmers, Indians, and politicians share their anxieties and reveal their values in an effort to find common cause, if not always common ground.

It's a disease that springs from the soil. Valley Fever affects 150,000 people each year, but it’s still little-known, and hard to diagnose and treat. Hear from experts, as well as survivors who have nearly lost their lives to this mysterious malady.

Witness how a group of passionate supporters were able to save what is now Jug Handle State Reserve in Mendocino. Meet John Olmsted, a modern-day John Muir who stopped the bulldozers and preserved a unique ecosystem on California’s coast.

Explore a story of survival when men and machines vied with the mountains and the elements. When a winter storm shut down the west-east railroad route across America, a vision from the past—the rotary snow plow invented in the 1800s—helped rescue a trapped train crew and re-open this major rail line.

The story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement’s finest hours – The Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that brought about the creation of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW).

Examine how Parkinson's Disease is now approached with a new perspective, thanks to doctors, researchers, and patients who are driving the science. Meet men and women from all walks of life who struggle to delay their disease progression, including former Sacramento Kings power forward Brian Grant.