There's something fascinating about border towns. Who hasn't
crossed the line into another state to buy fireworks, gamble, or
even to get married? Here are border towns with names as unique as
the places themselves, names that bridge the boundaries.
Robert D. Temple brings you a quirky, fascinating, and wholly
entertaining look at more than eighty North American border towns
in Edge Effects. With an adventurer's heart and a historian's keen
eye, Temple explores life on the edge and how these places have
made their place in history. There's big-city Mexicali and
empty-quarter Idavada, idyllic Vir-Mar Beach and whiskey-soaked
Mondak. Then there's prairie-bleak Alsask, mountain-high Wyocolo,
and palmy Florala. And who could forget Texarkana?
Along with finding these towns in the first place comes
adventure in exploring them, by highway, four-wheel-drive, boots,
and kayak, and in encountering memorable locals: historians,
farmers, waitresses, cops, forest rangers, railroaders, and
ne'er-do-wells. But even more, these places lead us to investigate
concepts of borders, boundaries, frontiers, margins, and
marginality, as well as survey lines, battle lines, picket lines,
and color lines.
Edge Effects brilliantly examines how frontiers enrich cultures
and boundaries define them. But more importantly, it reveals how
edges shape local history-and our lives.
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