Cyanide Wells [With Earbuds]

A hard, four-hour drive north of San Francisco leads to sparsely populated Soledad County, a combination of spectacular seashore, inland forests, and small towns steeped in gold-mining history. One of those towns is Cyanide Wells, now an artsy community, whose name comes from the miners use of cyanide to refine ore and the time the areas water supply was tragically poisoned.