The end of Main Street in San Luis, Ariz., is a border crossing station that connects the city to San Luis Rio Colorado in Mexico.

Our second story in the series airs today on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. It is about Main Street in San Luis, Arizona, which runs straight into the border with Mexico. Listen to it on NPR’s website.

Wondering how Mapping Main Street came to be?  Turns out it’s one part lots of hard work, plus one great opportunity, add several friends and colleagues to guide you, plus creative problem solving and you get something much larger than you could ever hope for, something 10,466 streets large.

Learn much more by checking out this short essay by Mapping Main Street’s Kara Oehler she wrote for the Association for Independence in Radio (AIR).

You can learn even more about the public radio system and other exciting creative media projects in this article from Current-the newspaper about public TV and radio in the US.

Where can you inner-tube through snake infested waters directly under a local bar?  Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler share with New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth what it’s like to wade in the sometimes mysterious and exciting waters of radio production.