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StoryCorps is coming to Marfa this month, so we’re airing a selection of our favorite stories from their visit back in 2020.

Britt Mazurek In 2019—a few years after relocating to Marfa from Chicago—the now 55-year-old trumpeter, composer, and visual artist Rob Mazurek found himself performing in one of the most surreal venues of his life: at the bottom of the Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Barefoot in the mud at low tide, he started to play, imagining “a scenario of projecting sonic energy on the border line … improvising on this feeling,” he recounts over Zoom from his music studio in Marfa,...