Some old trees in our public spaces are long-forgotten war memorials. A look back at the movement AMERICAN FORESTS helped spawn and how it's evolved over the decades.
Look at the brittle-edged magazine articles about long-ago tree plantings, and you can't help but wonder just what those ceremonies were like. Who gave the speeches, who threw the ceremonial first shovelful of soil, did a local band play? Was anyone crying when names were read from brass markers affixed to the ...