Friday, April 30, 2021

Happy Arbor Day 2021

 

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree."
-Joyce Kilmer






 The celebration of Arbor Day can be attributed to a man named 
Julius Sterling Morton, whose dream it was to plant all 
  kinds of trees across the Nebraska landscape.

In fact, when the first Arbor Day occurred there on April 10, 1872
it was estimated that nearly one million trees were planted!
By the year 1885, Arbor Day had become a legal holiday in Nebraska.
The date was later to April 22 to honor Morton's birthday.

Today Arbor Day is observed in most states on the
last Friday of the month of April.



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