My night in Tonopah's Clown Motel.

Rick Lattin is a fifth-generation farmer whose family has been growing crops in the Lahontan Valley since 1909. But his particular operating model is simultaneously old-school and modern. 

Joe McCarthy of the Comstock Residents Assocation is fighting a proposed mining operation in his Silver City neighborhood.

Everywhere you look, a sculpture protrudes from a surface, an oddity is embedded in a wall, a clay face looks back at you. It would take years of study to see every item that Van Zant incorporated into his monument. 

Some of the most compelling murals in Ely aren't just visually striking, but they reflect something about the community's history, and the communitiy's aspirations.