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Welcome to the Shire -Brad Bailey shares the stories and nostalgic photos of his family settling and living on Palomar Mountain in Southern California, where they opened and still run Bailey's Palomar Resort.

The Girls of West - Author and Old West history expert R. Michael Wilson discusses some of the Notorious Women of West including Pablita Sandoval, Delores Moore, Eva Dugan and Pearl Hart!

The RED Dress - Transformation coach MaryAine Curtis discusses that whether it's written or unspoken, the beliefs that have been propagated since the days of Mary Magdalene are that a woman in red is a prostitute.  

On This Date - May: From Lei Day,  Mother’s Day and Memorial Day; the first wagon train heading to the Northwest and the construction of the first skyscraper; to the  to the birth of Bono, Scatman Crothers and Calamity Jane, see what else happened and who was born in May.

Behind Bars in Historic England! English historian and tour guide Glynn Burrows shares prison stories - including his own family's, and describes the conditions of historic prisons including food rations, allowances and living habits.

Tromp-L'oeil Painting - Tromp-l’oeil is French for “deceive, or fool the eye”, and artist Victoria Chick discusses the history and techniques used in this painting style.

Heritage Events is Yosemite's Gold Rush Country - From the Mother Lode Round-up Parade to Columbia State Historic Park ” Diggins 1852″, history is alive with these events in Yosemite's Gold Rush region in California's Tuolumne County.