Residents in a Texas town located 60 miles from the Mexico border, known for its unusual rural American scene, are struggling with the cost of living due to its outsized reputation.
is my entire elementary art program," he said of a local nonprofit that provides free arts education to the district.
"When I graduated from high school in '81, you pretty much had to leave Marfa if you were going to have any kind of a career," Stafford, the retired teacher, told Axios.Donald Judd, "For its first 100 years, Marfa really did not change much at all. And then boom. It's a completely different community now. And in a way, it's not all bad."
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