As supply-chain issues persist and alarms sound over a nationwide truck driver shortage, Lancaster County paints a portrait of a healthy, robust transportation sector.
at first settlers called it the land of endless horizons because every time you got to the top of one line of hills, you found that there was another one beyond it. it was a land of incredible loneliness as i started talking to people there. i ll never forget lyndon johnson, the johnsons, for a large part of lyndon s boyhood, didn t even live in johnson city. they lived 18 miles beyond it on the johnson ranch. and lyndon s brother sam houston johnson once told me they were so lonely out there that one corner of the ranch came down to what they called the austin fredricksburg harbor which is really an unpaved path between austin and fredricksburg and he told me how lyndon and he would go down and sit on this corner of the fence hour after hour, hoping for one new face to come along so they would have someone new to talk to. it was a land of almost incredible poverty. there was almost no cash there. you could get a dime from selling a dozen eggs, but you had to go to marble fal