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==Plot Overview==

==Plot Overview==

So the author [[keyword:=John Graves]] canoes down 150-200 miles of the upper-middle Brazos River where most of his childhood memories were before 5 new dams where scheduled to go in.

So basically the author [[keyword:=John Graves]] canoes down 150-200 miles of the upper-middle Brazos River where most of his childhood memories took place before 5 new dams where scheduled to go in. The Universities own Marc Speir wrote a much fancier and well better overview than I ever could. Enjoy. 

===The “Common Experience”===

===The “Common Experience”===

''As time passed, the river was dammed in three places north of Waco for recreation and flood control, forming Possum Kingdom Lake, Lake Granbury and Lake Whitney. There is also a small municipal dam outside of Waco named Lake Brazos Dam. Graves argued against the dams, most notably the proposed construction of Lake Granbury in the mid-1950s, and the “drowning” effects he said they would have on the river. Although Lake Granbury was completed in 1969, the success of Goodbye to a River is believed to be a major reason that additional dams were not built on the Brazos, despite numerous proposals. Widely celebrated for Graves’ flowery language, naturalist philosophy and beautiful prose, the book is considered an American classic and heralded as a masterpiece of conservation and history, often compared to Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Thousands of freshmen at Texas State will read the novel this fall in English and University Seminar courses. For more information on the “Common Experience” and Goodbye to a River, visit [http://www.txstate.edu/commonexperience/index.htm here].''

''As time passed, the river was dammed in three places north of Waco for recreation and flood control, forming Possum Kingdom Lake, Lake Granbury and Lake Whitney. There is also a small municipal dam outside of Waco named Lake Brazos Dam. Graves argued against the dams, most notably the proposed construction of Lake Granbury in the mid-1950s, and the “drowning” effects he said they would have on the river. Although Lake Granbury was completed in 1969, the success of Goodbye to a River is believed to be a major reason that additional dams were not built on the Brazos, despite numerous proposals. Widely celebrated for Graves’ flowery language, naturalist philosophy and beautiful prose, the book is considered an American classic and heralded as a masterpiece of conservation and history, often compared to Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Thousands of freshmen at Texas State will read the novel this fall in English and University Seminar courses. For more information on the “Common Experience” and Goodbye to a River, visit [http://www.txstate.edu/commonexperience/index.htm here].''

==Part 1==

==Part 1==