WHO: Community activists in Marfa, who are celebrating a win after nearly two decades of advocacy to preserve the historic Blackwell School—and all Texans, who now have a new National Park Service site to enjoy.WHAT: The designation of the Blackwell School as a National Historic Site.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Ringed by mountains, with pronghorn gliding through tall grass on the edge of town, Marfa is not an entirely surprising setting for the National Park Service’s newest installment. But it wasn’t the high desert ecosystem that drew the federal agency’s attention to the far West Texas community. The country’s new national park site landed in Marfa because a group of alumni of a long-closed school for Mexican American children didn’t want to see their campus demolished…
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