Childhood memories
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Growing up in Knoxville, TN, a yearly family outing was to drive the neighborhoods during the Dogwood Festival.
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Childhood
May 7, 2020
Growing up in Knoxville, TN, a yearly family outing was to drive the neighborhoods during the Dogwood Festival.
When I was five my park was Ray Park in Chicago. There were some little trees there; I don't know the kind, but they had trunks with offshoots close to the ground.
I was a young boy, left alone with my older brother on a stormy night while our parents went out for a date. We were watching TV in the dark living room when suddenly there was a wall-shaking
My tree story is about a ginkgo tree on the campus of Illinois State University.
When I was a little kid I was the youngest of three, and when my brother and sister didn't want to play with me, outside my dad's house was this big maple tree next to our driveway, and I was able
I would call my tree story the Five-Fingered Tree. My tree story is about a tree that is in Flossmoor, Illinois.
My tree story is about a weeping willow tree that was in my next-door neighbor's yard.
I grew up in Lansing, Illinois, a southeastern suburb of Chicago. When I was two years old, we moved into a pre-World War II house with a double lot that had older, established trees and a pa
Growing up we had more than one horse chestnut tree around our block on the northwest side of Chicago. As kids, we liked to collect the chestnuts when they fell in their prickly green covers.
