Except for a brief span of weeks between May and June, the San Marcos River’s banks have been closed to most visitors since the middle of March, meaning that the humans who normally enjoy the river have passed Spring Break and the subsequent months of searing temperatures without enjoying the river’s cool, crystalline waters.
With most of the businesses on the Square shuttered through the end of July, with City Park and Rio Vista Dam bereft of the multitudes of bright yellow Lion’s Clubs tubes, it has seemed like something of a summer that wasn’t. Now, Texas State students have returned and schools are resuming classes, so it might be difficult to imagine a silver lining among the coronavirus clouds.
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