In which U.S. state will you find a community called Pie Town?
Pie Town is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located along U.S. Highway 60 in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 186.
Pie Town's name comes from an early bakery that specialized in dried-apple pies; it was established by Clyde Norman in the early 1920s. Pie Town is the location of a "Pie Festival" on the second Saturday of September.
Pie Town and its people were photographed in 1940 by Russell Lee, a photographer for the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. government an agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States.
Pie Town, Lee's photos, and the local restaurant the Daily Pie Cafe were the subject of an article in "Smithsonian" magazine in February 2005. In 2014, a feature-length documentary, "Pie Lady of Pie Town", was produced.
The area of Pie Town is rich in relics of the Native Americans. Many Anasazi and Acoma pottery shards have been found in the area, along with grinding slicks, an ancient axe head, and petrified wood. Some fossilized bones have been found on the ground. The ruins of Native American communities, which consist of one to a few dozen structures, are found here.
The Pie Town Annual Pie Festival includes a pie-baking contest, games and races, music, food, and arts and crafts
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