Tag: Arbor Day

On Arbor Day

In honor of Arbor Day, we share two poems from Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby.   PLANT A TREE by Lucy Larcom He who plants a tree, Plants a hope. Rootlets up through fibers blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free.…

We speak for the trees!

Guest Post by Angela Sorby Arbor Day is on April 25th this year, but its—um—roots trace back to 1872, when the journalist J. Sterling Morton organized schoolchildren to plant a million trees in the State of Nebraska. By the turn of the century, tree-planting had become a political issue; as Theodore Roosevelt put it to…