Gregory J. Hobbs Jr., former Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, water law expert, and poet, died in Denver on November 30, 2021. In addition to living in San Antonio when young, Justice Hobbs spoke many times to audiences in Texas about water policy. In 2020, Texas+Water Editor in Chief Dr. Todd Votteler asked Justice Hobbs to provide an unpublished poem on water for Poetry+Water.
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poetry+water: The Brazos River
After listening to testimony on Allen’s Creek Reservoir in the Texas House Natural Resources Committee this session, water attorney, Vanessa Puig-Williams, was reminded of a poem her Great-, Great-Aunt Grace Keelan, wrote about the Brazos River. As a child, Vanessa remembers weekend trips to her Aunt Grace’s farm in Navasota. Grace was born in 1893 in Cheyenne Wyoming, moving to Texas with her family as a child, ultimately buying land in Navasota in the 1930’s, where