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Do you know why Shreveport's Red River is red? If not, you should consider taking a vacation to the Palo Duro Canyon State Park, the most-visited state park in Texas. There you'll see one of the two major sources of Red River.
But a new generation is focused on remembering Coates Bluff history. Three schools are located along the trail, and Soul is a teacher at one of them. With each passing school year, more people become Friends of the Coates Bluff Nature Trail and spend their time walking, fishing, jogging, researching, taking photos of, and loving the little path that tells the almost-forgotten history.
Friends of the Coates Bluff Nature Trail are worried that if the land is purchased and developed, it will further impact the health of the watershed and be the end of the trail, so they have set up a GoFundMe page for those who want to help.
To celebrate the Guardian’s 200th anniversary we turned the theguardian.com network front into its 19th-century ancestor. Here’s how we transformed the hack into reality using a selection of tools, some styling and creative thinking