United States | Over the Rainbow
What Texas’s oldest motel reveals about the rural South
From joyrides and drugs to economic dynamism
|Rockdale
IT IS RARE for crickets to drone out pickup trucks. But off a country highway, Texas’s oldest motel is anything but common. The grit of a typical roadside stop is replaced by an oasis that tells the story of a changing South.
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