Fabens, Texas

	As you can see in this map, Fabens is about 30 miles Southeast of El Paso along the Rio Grande. At last count, about 8,000 people live there.
	Unfortunately, this is all that most people see of Fabens as they whizz by on Interstate Highway 10. Those who do stop for a moment, will often stay only at the few restaurants and a hotel by the side of the highway. But the best parts of Fabens are about 2 miles away from the interstate.
	This is the Fabens Water Tower. You can see it from just about anywhere in the town. In the background, you can see what used to be the junior high school. When the new high school was built, the junior high classes were moved to the old high school, and 2nd graders moved into the old junior high.
	This is the Fabens High School, home of the mighty Wildcats.
	These are two of my teachers from high school. Mrs. Cusick was my Senior English/Drama/Debate teacher, while Mr. Baker was my Biology teacher.
	Mrs. McKenzie, my high school counselor. She's now the counselor at the Junior High School, tirelessly preparing students for their lives ahead of them.
	This is the Fabens football stadium. It's quiet now, but you should see it on Friday nights during football season!
	Here is a picture of downtown Fabens, or at least as much of a downtown as a small town can have. Main street is part of Texas Highway 20, which used to be the main roadway linking El Paso to the rest of the state before Interstate 10 was built.
	This is the Catholic Church in Fabens, a familiar landmark.
	The name Fabens comes from an attorney named George Wilson Fabens who worked for the railroad. As the railroad was being built, new towns were named after railroad employees. Mr. Fabens was born on October 29, 1857 and died in 1939. (Information provided by Curtis Fabens-Jones of Ohio, a descendent of George Wilson Fabens.)

This is what Fabens looks like from a nearby cotton field.

	Nobody's mad here. Once you get out of the town, the area around Fabens is very rural, with acres of pecan orchards, cotton, wheat, and alfalfa fields... and of course cows.
	So, now I live in Omaha, Nebraska. And to show my respect for my home town, I got custom license plates that say FABENS. Here are the plates on my previous car, a Honda Civic.
	Here's a photo from a recent trip back to Fabens. (You can see that the plates (which have since been re-designed) now adorn a Prelude instead of a Civic.)