A 300 yr-old Live Oak tree on the campus of Hampton University in Virginia stuns visitors with its strength and beauty. It’s also an enduring symbol of a watershed moment in American history - the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, which freed enslaved people in the rebel states.

How could a tree play a role in that momentous event, at least locally? What did emancipation truly mean to African-Americans in 1863? How does the tree still inspire the hearts and imagination of people today?

Guests
Abra Lee
Garden Historian, Writer, Lecturer
conquerthesoil.com
Director of Horticulture, Oakland Cemetery
Atlanta, GA

Prof. Robert Watson
Assistant Professor of History
Hampton University
Hampton, VA

Tim Nuckols
Owner, Nuckols Tree Care
Virginia Beach, VA

Consulting Editor
Josh Abrams

Music
"Steal Away" - Wallace Willis
Arranged by Roland Carter
Sung by the Winston-Salem State University Choir

Photo Credit
Hampton University

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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A stunning copper beech tree in Ireland’s County Galway attracts tourists from around the world. Lady Gregory was its owner, and she drew legendary writers of her day to her house and garden at Coole Park - William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and others. If they were lucky, they were allowed to etch their names into the bark of what’s now known as the Autograph Tree. Learn the full story steeped in Irish literary history.

Guests
Jenni McGuire
Head Guide, Coole Park Nature Reserve
Gort, County Galway, Ireland

Margaux Pierrel
Conservation Ranger, Coole Park Nature Reserve
Gort, County Galway, Ireland

Dr. James Pethica
Senior Lecturer in English and Theatre, Williams College
Williamstown, MA, USA

Dr. Anna Pilz
Independent Researcher
Academic Developer & Trainer, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland

Consulting Editor
David Still, II

Music
"Cailleach An Airgid" - traditional
Arranged by Katharina Baker
Performed by Sonic Strings from Coole Music & Arts in Gort, County Galway
Soloist - Lilian Owens
See Sonic Strings performing the piece on Inis Mór on YouTube here

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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This episode was written in part at LitArts RI, a community organization and co-working space that supports Rhode Island's creators.
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This season 1 recap features thematic highlights from the first 18 episodes, Doug's favorite songs about trees, and an interview with Dee Lee, arborist and songwriter!

Featured Songs and Artists

Redwood Tree, Van Morrison  
Saint Dominick's Preview, 1972
Warner Bros, Inc.

English Trees, Crowded House
Time on Earth, 2007
Parlophone & ATO Records

Trees, Louis Armstrong & George Jenkins and His Orchestra
(Lyrics from Trees by Joyce Kilmer)
1954

Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell
Ladies of the Canyon, 1970
Reprise Records, Crazy Crow Music

King of Trees, Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Buddha and the Chocolate Box, 1974
A&M Records, Firecat Music Ld.

Boys in the Trees, Carly Simon
Boys in the Trees, 1978
Elektra Records; C'est Music; Universal Music Corp.

Mango Tree (Feat. Sara Bareilles), Zac Brown Band
Jekyll + Hyde, 2015
Writers: Zac Brown, Anna Elizabeth Harwood, and Niko Moon
Big Machine Records; Republic; Bettimusic

It’s the Roots, Dee Lee

This Old Tree, Dee Lee
DeeLeeTree.com

Consulting Editor
David Still II

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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This episode was written in part at LitArts RI, a community organization and co-working space that supports Rhode Island's creators.
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The Founders' Oak in New Braunfels is a "Famous Tree of Texas." The 300 yr-old live oak has given shelter to a Spanish Mission, a German Prince who brought thousands of settlers, old Texas families that date back to the Alamo, and the Comanche Nation. Its cultural history is rich, and includes a new designation as a "Comanche Marker Tree." What is it about this tree's history that mirrors the founding of Texas itself?

Co-Host
Emily King
Urban Forester, Community Tree Preservation Division
City of Austin, TX
Austin's Community Tree Report
Austin's Tree Canopy

Guests
Tim Barker
President, Friends for the Preservation of Historic Landa Park
New Braunfels, TX

Kelly Eby
Urban Forester, Community Forestry Program
City of San Marcos, TX

Steve Houser
Owner and President, Arborilogical Services
Chairperson, Indian Marker Tree Committee
Texas Historic Tree Coalition
Wylie, TX

Jimmy Arterberry
Cultural Resource/Environmental Consultant
Former Tribal Administrator, Comanche Nation
Medicine Park, OK

Books
New Braunfels Historic Landa Park: Its Springs and Its People
Famous Trees of Texas
Comanche Marker Trees of Texas

Featured songs by Jimmy Irby
(Published by ...And More Bears, Vollersode, Germany)
One Cup of Coffee and a Cigarette
Don't Count Your Chickens
I'm So Disgusted
I've Got the Blues for Texas

Consulting Editor
David Still II

Cover Photo
Steve Houser

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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The Brontë Oak is a massive white oak tree in Oakville, Ontario that has been threatened by every type of construction project imaginable. Logging, overhead power lines, a regional water conduit, highway expansion, you name it. But in the face of multi-billion dollar corporations, it still stands thanks to the collective efforts of a persuasive neighbor, two savvy arborists, an 87 yr-old schoolteacher, a tuned-in Town Councilor, and a favorite Canadian folk rock singer.

Guests
John McNeil
Consulting Urban Forester
McNeil Urban Forestry, Inc.
Burlington , Ontario
LinkedIn

Pete Williams
Consulting Forester
Williams & Associates Forestry Consulting
Rockwood, Ontario
http://forestar.ca/

Allan Elgar
Regional and Town Councilor
Oakville, Ontario
https://www.oakville.ca/town-hall/mayor-council-administration/mayor-council/councillor-allan-elgar/

Sarah Harmer
Singer/Songwriter
https://sarahharmer.com/

Featured songs by Sarah Harmer
Pendulums
Tether
Squeaking Voices
The Ring

Consulting Editor
David Still II

Audio Editor
Marta Abrams

Cover artwork
Betty Goodfellow, artist
Collection of Sarah Harmer

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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This Old Tree podcast is a sponsored project of New England ISA. To support This Old Tree and New England ISA, click here.

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This episode was written in part at LitArts RI, a community organization and co-working space that supports Rhode Island's creators.
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In 1946, 153 "Moses Cleaveland Trees" were chosen as landmark trees to represent the City of Cleveland's 150-yr anniversary. Not only did they harken back to the pre-settlement forest - they were in fact part of it. The existence of each one became hazy over time, until a group organized by the City and the Early Settlers Association set out to find them again. Do they still survive?

Guests
Dr. Roy Larick
Retired Archaeologist
Owner of Bluestone Conservation
Vice Chair of the Euclid Shade Tree Commission
Member of the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve
 https://www.earlysettlers.org/

Margeaux Apple
Collections Coordinator
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/

Dr. Michael Melampy
Professor Emeritus
Baldwin Wallace University
https://www.bw.edu/

Consulting Editor
David Still II

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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This episode was written in part at LitArts RI, a community organization and co-working space that supports Rhode Island's creators.
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The stately "Imperial Pine" is the only bonsai ever to leave the Japanese Emperor's collection, and it resides at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, DC.  Listen to the behind-the-scenes story about how it got there during a key moment in diplomatic history between Japan and the United States.

Guests
Kathleen Emerson-Dell
Curator of Exhibitions
National Bonsai & Penjing Museum
U.S. National Arboretum
www.usna.usda.gov

Michael James
Curator
National Bonsai & Penjing Museum
U.S. National Arboretum
www.usna.usda.gov

Consulting Editor
David Still II

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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Meet the charming old katsura tree in Beatrix Farrand’s famous garden at Dumbarton Oaks. It might be the oldest katsura in North America, or maybe not, but its origins relate to the burgeoning interest in Japanese trees and plants in the second half of the 19th century when Japan opened up to the world. Listen in, as the tree receives some traditional care from Japanese Master Gardener Kurato Fujimoto.

Guests
Ron Henderson
Founding Principal
Lirio Landscape Architecture
Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism
Illinois Institute of Technology

Kurato Fujimoto
Master Gardener
Kenroku-en Garden

Johann (Hans) Friedl
Masters Student of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Illinois Institute of Technology
www.linkedin.com/in/johann-friedl

Jonathan Kavalier
Director of Gardens and Grounds
Dumbarton Oaks

Abner Aldarondo
Humanities Fellow
Dumbarton Oaks

Consulting Editor
David Still II

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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This is the second edition of Tree Story Shorts on This Old Tree, where listeners get to contribute and tell their own tree stories! From New York to California to China and Nepal, listen to what people have to say about the trees that inspire them.

Guests
Gil Reavill
Author, screenwriter, journalist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Reavill

James Voorhies
Retired grounds manager and entomologist
Paul Smith College '72

Georgia Silvera Seamans
Founder, Local Nature Lab
Host, Your Bird Story podcast

Chi Ngai Chan
Staff Scientist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
linkedin.com/in/chingaichan/

Fran Hutton Lee
Retired GIS specialist and cartographer
linkedin.com/in/fran-v-hutton-lee-4184a125/

Brandon Namm
Tree Inspector, City of Portland, OR
Principal Consultant, Laurelin Tree Consulting
laurelinconsulting.com

Eva Monheim
Speaker, consultant, garden coach, designer, writer, photographer
Co-host of The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast
evamonheim.com

Leena Chapagain
Botanist and gardener
Dumbarton Oaks

Steven Koehn
Director of Cooperative Forestry
U.S. Forest Service, Dept. of Agriculture
www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/state-private-forestry/coop-forestry

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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Sherwood Forest in the County of Nottinghamshire lays claim to a world famous tree, The Major Oak. It may well have harbored Robin Hood and his merry men, or perhaps people like them. Admirers from all over the world visit the beloved English oak, drawn by the legend.  

Two guests from the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve help describe why the tree is so special. One is Paul Cook, the Warden tasked with maintaining the woodland and the landscape. The other is the Sheriff of Nottingham, or, that is, Richard Townsley, a tour guide and local authority on Robin Hood. There’s an aura around this tree thanks to the legend, but the allure and lasting popularity of England's arboreal icon has become about so much more. 

Guests
Paul Cook
Warden
Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve, RSPB

Richard Townsley
Tour Guide - Sheriff of Nottingham
Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve, RSPB

Consulting Editor
David Still, II

Reader
Nigel Holmes
nigelholmes.com
(excerpts from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, edited by Jonathan Kelley, The Townsend Press, Inc.)

Recorder Musicians
David Bor
Kim Wass

Recorder Music
"Light of love," Anonymous
"When that I was and a little tiny boy," anonymous Shakespearean stage tune
"When lo, by break of morning," Thomas Morley, 1595
"It was a lover and his lass," Thomas Morley, 1600
"Tres douce dame que j’aour," Guillaume de Machaut, 14th c.
"We Be Soldiers Three," Thomas Ravenscroft, 1609

Special thanks to:
Rob James, Sherwood Forest

Photo credit
Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve, RSPB

Theme Music
Diccon Lee, www.deeleetree.com

Artwork
Dahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/home

Website
thisoldtree.show
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This episode was written in part at LitArts RI, a community organization and co-working space that supports Rhode Island's creators.
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