Frost, Texas · What Endures

Part Eight of 8

What Should These Walls Hear Next?

Over these last few months we've followed a song, a building, a storm, the neighbors who came running, a town that set up shop in the rubble, a railroad that pulled a whole settlement two miles north, and a record that's still playing.

These old walls have heard a lot. Money counted across a teller's window. Trade Days crowds on the corner. Scissors going at Mr. Hightower's. A town rebuilt out of nothing. A century of footsteps wearing a name into the floor.

They're still standing. Not every old building in Frost can say that. A building like this doesn't stay up by accident. It stays up because somebody uses it.

So here's the question that matters now, for this corner and the rest of the old places in town:

What should these walls hear next?

Some things are built to endure.