Somewhere in western Maryland, squeezed into a strip of land so narrow it seems like a cartographic accident, sits a town that geography forgot to make impossible.
Hancock, Maryland is real, it’s remarkable, and most people have driven right past it on Interstate 70 without ever stopping to ask why it exists.
That’s a mistake worth correcting.
Let’s start with the geography, because it’s the kind of thing that makes you want to call someone and describe it out loud…