CROSS PLAINS, Texas (AP) — On a wall in the backroom of the Howard residence on the edge of town, home in the 1920s and ’30s to Dr. and Mrs. Isaac Howard and their son, Robert, is a map of the world festooned with dozens of multicolored dots.
The Houston Chronicle reports each dot represents a visitor to the little white-frame house; a quick glance suggests that more countries are dotted than not.
The visitors are pilgrims, so to speak, journeying to a West Texas hamlet, population 982, to pay homage to a young man whose stories continue to be devoured by millions more than 80 years after his death.