The Pink Elephant of DeForest isn’t just any roadside oddity – it’s a Wisconsin institution, a landmark that has achieved almost mythical status among locals and road-trippers alike.

In a country that would eventually embrace giant balls of twine and enormous fiberglass fish, Lucy was the trendsetter, the original “you’ve-gotta-see-this” destination that proved Americans will ...

Credit: Andrew Field By Etiwel Mutero It was a world defined by the unrelenting thirst for the distant waterhole, and into ...

An excerpt from ‘Scratching the Silence’, by Prafull Shiledar, translated from the Marathi by Santosh Bhoomkar, Vishnu Khare, ...