^ John Hancock, Farley Wuth, Heidi Eijgel, Noreen Robbins, BJ Scott, Diane Burt-Stuckey, Pauline Warren, Bev Everts
Toni Lucas
On Thursday afternoon, September 24 approximately a dozen people attended a dedication of the grove of cottonwood trees on the walking path beside Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village (KBPV) at the corner of the bridge on Bev McLachlin Drive. The event was in part a celebration of National Tree day.
1898 photo of area that is now part of Pincher Creek's walking path (courtesy KBPV) |
The dedication ceremony reminded Warren of the words of her favorite poem, 'Trees' by Joyce Kilmer, which a surprising number of the attendees helped her recite from memory.
Trees
by Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
National Tree Day in Canada was on September 23.
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