title: Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas
author:  Joshua Long 
description: A native Texan who lived and worked in the Austin area for more than twenty years, JOSHUA LONG is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Franklin College Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland.
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  # BY ANITA HIGMAN
  
  
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  # SummeRSIde
  
  
  # _PRESS_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Love Finds You in Humble, Texas_  
  
  
  © 2008 by Anita Higman
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-934770-61-0
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any
  form, except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without written
  permission of the publisher.
  
  
  The town depicted in this book is a real place, but all characters are
  fictional. Any resemblances to actual people or events are purely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Cover and Interior Design by Müllerhaus Publishing Group
  **[www.mullerhaus.net](http://www.mullerhaus.net)**
  
  
  Published by Summerside Press, Inc., 11024 Quebec Circle, Bloomington,
  Minnesota 55438 |
  **[www.summersidepress.com](http://www.summersidepress.com)**
  
  
  **_Fall in love with Summerside_.**
  
  
  Printed in the USA.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## **_Dedication_**
  
  
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