WHERE IN AMERICA ARE YOU?
by Randy Karr

The King Kong size glasses you see commemorates Buddy Holly, a legendary Rock and Roller who was born in the city you are visiting. Among other musicians with roots, both here and in the state's panhandle, include Waylon Jennings, Mac Davis, Jimmy Dean, Tanya Tucker, Roy Orbison, Bob Wells, the Gatlin Brothers and Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks. This city, located in the Llano Estacada region, was settled by Quakers and named for a Texas Ranger whose brother once served as the state's governor. Known as "Hub City", it is the economic center of the South Plains, a multi-county agricultural region that contains the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world. The city is also noted for having more churches per capita than any other in the United States, and for having the tallest building ever to withstand a direct hit from an F-5 tornado. It is also one of the largest American cities to ban the sale of packaged alcoholic beverages within its city limits and as the place where a v-shaped formation of lights, seen over the city, became one of America's first UFO sightings. Where in America are you, anyway?

Name this city. Click on the photo to reveal the answer.

© 2006 Randy Karr