Pulling dollar bills off the wall to keep going in rural California

This is a time of year that many rural towns in the Owens Valley usually celebrate — rodeo and fishing season. Normally, tourists from Southern California would be swarming into the eastern Sierra Nevada range, streaming into Old West facades and making cash registers sing. But the deadly virus that locals have come to call “The Big Weird” has changed all that. Today, the towns of Lone Pine, …