The Pies Have It

It’s the night before the annual pie festival in the aptly named Pie Town, New Mexico, and Michael Rawl is still inside the Good Pie Café, chatting up customers, cooking their suppers and baking pies for tomorrow’s big day. “I’ve made 80 so far,” he says. “Been working all week, but I love it.” Located on the Continental Divide along U.S. 60 about 83 miles west of Socorro, Pie Town boasts, locals say, a population of about 65. They must all love pies because the ranching town