Commentary
Morag Fraser on extremes in the United States
by Morag Fraser •
Indiana’s State Route 67 is a highway straight out of Alfred Hitchcock, an open-skied strip through flat country, bordered by desultory malls, a ‘drive-thru’ Taco Bill, a county jail and sheriff’s department, a pedimented Walgreens and – most intriguing – the Mooresville ‘Lost Inn Motel’, and the ‘Lost Name Steak-house and Saloon’. (Google risks no tariff information for the Lost Inn, but it does report that the Lost Name Steakhouse is ‘permanently closed’.)
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