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Texas Country Reporter turns fifty in October 2022. Each week until then, we’ll share classic episodes from the show’s history and behind-the-scenes reflections from TCR’s creator and host, Bob Phillips. As we travel the back roads for Texas Country Reporter, roaming from town to town, I find myself thinking about the beginnings of some of those settlements.Why here? How did they come up with that name for this place? Who were the first settlers?Answering these questions can lead me down winding paths to find a story, and that’s what happened when I drifted through the tiny town of Serbin.Serbin isn’t really a town at all but an unincorporated community, founded in the mid-1850s when a small sect of people known as Sorbs or Wends (depending on whom you ask)…

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