Out today: "Castroville, 'the Little Alsace of #Texas,' was founded in 1844 by colonists from that region of France. The 'native sons' as I’ve heard them called, occupied a caste to which I, a Puerto Rican and Greek ... from the city, would never belong." https://www.texasobserver.org/time-comes-for-castroville/

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