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Question: What is the valley? Answer: According to the local Chamber of Commerce: Stretching from South Padre island on the Gulf coast to the historic town of Rio Grande City, "The Valley" is located directly across the border from Mexico. Dating from colonial days of Imperial Spain, The Valley's history covers periods of exploration, wars, and revolutions. With our semi-tropical climate and proximity to both Mexico and the Gulf Coast, The Valley makes an ideal vacation destination from warm sandy beaches, diverse shopping venues to bird watching and wildlife hunting. According to WILLIAM BURROUGHS, who lived in Edinburg for a while in 1949, writes in Junky--A premonition of doom hangs over the Valley. You have to make it now before something happens, before the black fly ruins the citrus, before support prices are taken off the cotton, before the flood, the hurricane, the freeze, the long dry spell when there is no water to irrigate. The threat of disaster is always there, persistent and disquieting as the afternoon wind. The Valley was desert and it will be again. I can confirm, nothing much has changed. Are you a valley zine writer? I'm looking for valley produced zines. Get in touch with me to distro your stuff and possibly interview you for an upcoming zine about zines in the valley. Maybe you've complained about there not being any zines here, maybe you think all zines should be written in some romantisized city with lots of rain. All that is so not true. Zines can be about anything and written by anyone from anywhere! Zines-a way of life!! Please visit http://www.mission-texas.com for important information about environmental racism going on the Rio Grande Valley. Please join the RGV_Culta community I've created. WE need more interaction. Announce the going ons you've heard about or your upcoming projects. 
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