15 minutes agoAmerican City with just one resident
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Five miles from the South Dakota border, to the far north end of the U.S. state of Nebraska, a long road across green fields and gold wheat fields to the center of Moow, a place you can see in the palm of your hands if you climb one of the hills [...]
An empty church, now packed with tractor tires, is beyond what is left of a nation. Bars and bushes traverse the ruins of houses, which are falling apart, forgotten by time, the BBC writes, broadcast “Koha Ditore”. And within a square white object, whose color has begun to wear out, 84-year-old Elsie Eiler is preparing pork and cooling beer. The inscription is on the object: “Welcome to the most famous Tavern in Monowi. The coldest beer in town!
When Elier's husband, Rudy, passed away in 2004, he did not just leave the tavern to her but the whole town. Today, according to U.S. census, Monow is the only country in the United States with only one resident, and Eiler is mayoral, cashier, bibliotechist, waitresses, and the only person left in the smallest American town.
