Like the people of Whoville, the people of Hooper are still there.
The people of Hooper – population 827, more or less – knew what this meant. The small green sign planted beside the new highway barely whispered their town’s name. And in the flat terrain of rural Nebraska, the eye can see far into the distance, yet miss so much. They feared being missed. Bypassed.
A great story by Dan Barry in The New York Times.
Must reading.