On Wednesday morning, cars and buses from around the state pulled into the gravel parking lot behind the park on Main Street in Dilley, where a bright-green-and-red statue reminds visitors that the tiny South Texas town of around three thousand people was once the watermelon capital of Texas. Beside the statue, Reverend Erin Walter, a petite redhead wearing clergy garb and pink sneakers, watched as the crowd grew to around two hundred people, including a couple dozen clergy members. Some wore brightly colored stoles over their fleeces and sweaters in the 50-degree weather; others donned clerical collars. One Franciscan priest wore his brown habit and a plaid flat cap. The outsized religious presence was deliberate. Several members of Walter’s group, the Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry,…The post All Eyes on Dilley appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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