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Tales of the River Walk
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If it hadn’t been for a squabble over where to hang fairy lights, the 400-year-old Ben Milam Bald Cypress tree might not exist. A city council ruling in the 1930s would have been the death knell for the trees growing along the banks of the San Antonio River; the council wanted to alter the layout of a 100-year-old flood control channel to assuage the river’s seasonal flooding.
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