By Christina Cavazos
Growing up just outside of Longview near the Elderville-Lakeport area, Shawn Hara’s family traveled across the Sabine River nearly every day to go into town. A family that loved the outdoors, the Haras took vacations to places like Arkansas and North Carolina where they’d canoe and spend time exploring the natural landscape. However, they never did those same activities at home on the river that they traveled over every day. Its brown water nestled between muddy, red clay embankments adorned with pine trees and hardwoods, the Sabine River wasn’t thought of as a place for recreation. In fact, it wasn’t really thought of at all.
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