Five Dallas-area Teens Rep the Big D at Disney Dreamers Academy

Ever been sitting outside on an August summer day in Dallas and wondered, “why in God’s name would the first people to find this place find it, set up shop, hang out for a bit, then experience the first summer and still decide to stay?” Between dabbing oneself with a Dallas-issue sweat towel and sipping sweet tea, complete with the required minimum 25g of sugar per 16-ounce glass, one will probably come to assume that the only reasonable explanation is because those first settlers saw some semblance of potential – a dream of what life could be with a well-regulated body temperature, a bit of investment and a ton of faith. On that August summer day in Dallas, it becomes clear that an early dream of what Dallas could be, apparently, outweighed the ungodly summer heat!& But that’s the thing about Dallas, though. Dallas has a history of and knack for growing and drawing in dreamers. At times called “the city that shouldn’t exist”, a convincing idea that was convincingly argued in the once-controversial book by Jim Schutze, The Accommodation, Dallas is a city that was built by people whose vision for what the city could be seemed to have...