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The first Hike and Bike: Janet Fish and the Shoal Creek trail

Yesterday, the book signing at Threadgills South gave guests the opportunity to get their own first run hardcover books. We also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Save Our Springs uprising and heard some of the book that covers that period. 

Many people are unaware of the history that preceeds the SOS movement of the 1990s, and that is one reason I wrote this book.   A host of people and groups were very active in creating the Environmental City in the "early days" of the late 1960s and 1970s.  It was during that time that the ideas about using creeks for greenbelts took shape, and the first hike and bike trails were built.  These became the model for what we build today.  Below is the story of one such person, Janet Fish, who we have to thank for the Shoal Creek hike and bike trail. 

 

Submitted by scott swearingen on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 9:50am

Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin preview

My new book, Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin, will be available soon!  The book is a history of the environmental movement in austin, what it has acheived, and how that movement still shaped the politics and urban design of Austin today.

This blog will include sections of the book, as well as history I could not include in the book. 

Take a peek at the very first "teaser" from the book.........

Submitted by scott swearingen on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 2:48pm
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