Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team

Down Farm Road 308, an hour's drive south of Dallas, amidst sprawling fields of cotton lies a small community—Penelope, Texas (population 211). Here, where the only thriving businesses are the granary and the post office, unless you count the soft-drink machine in front of the fire station, two-time Edgar Award-winning writer Carlton Stowers discovered a special town that came together, not only to support their six-man highschool football team—the Penelope Wolverines—through thick and a lo...