Dripping Springs

About this audio guide

This guide to Dripping Springs, a small Hill Country town outside Austin, follows its odd relationship with its own night sky. In twenty fourteen it became one of the earliest places honored for protecting real darkness overhead, then later filled its sidewalks with a different kind of star. You will meet the local artists behind that project and why a town built around darkness wanted more shine. Listen for it near Mercer Street, where the painted stars still stand.