“Y’all been to Giddings?!?”
And with that, we unlocked a whole other level of storytelling. Gone were the preliminary and neighborly, come-have-a-drink-with-us, getting-to-know-you, what-brings-you-to-Springdale, Utah stories. The couple who had called us over to join their impromptu driveway party were from Texas. We knew the Texan barbecue landscape well enough to have been to Giddings. If we knew that much, well, they had a story to tell us about events that had happened near there a few years back…