But some visitors are spending the night — and discovering underappreciated ruins, a growing range of outdoor activities, newly opened cafes and a destination hotel that are turning the sleepy village into more than a one-track town.
Much is also lost with the video version of "From the Other Side" (2002), in which 18 monitors mix interviews with people who live north and south of the Mexican-American border with laterally tracking town scenes and views of the fence erected to prevent illegal crossing.
Each end-of-track town in its turn became the terminus for many of the cart trains.
In a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the group, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, said the county had neither tracked towns' efforts to bring in housing for lower-income people nor penalized those that did nothing.
The site was begun in March 2003 by Gordon Joseloff, a former television news and wire-service reporter who for the past eight years has had something of an inside track on town happenings as moderator of Westport's Representative Town Meeting, a nonpartisan legislative body.
For those keeping track, the town went whole hog and erected a Lois Lane statue down the street and even the town's newspaper is The Metropolis Planet.
The record makes its first dive into darkness on the fourth track, "Lonely Town," a slow, hymnlike ballad for trio.
Nowhere are they treated with such reverence and panache as at the Indianapolis Speedrome, a small track across town from the far larger, more famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Twenty minutes later, on a dirt track outside town, I point to a large dog that's watching us from a bluff.
There are needles hanging out of arms on at least two songs tonight, the older Slow Walk, and the new album's title track, Small Town Heroes.
