List of Illustrations Foreword: Tree Time Sonja Dümpelmann, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Acknowledgments Introduction: Finding the Forest through the Trees Leah S. Glaser, Central Connecticut State University Philip Levy, University of South Florida Part I: Trees, Place, and Communities 1. Arboreal Memories: Recovering Historical Meaning in Neighborhood Trees Andrew Hurley, University of Missouri?St. Louis 2. ?The Most Useful Tree?: American Chestnut Stories and Species Restoration Carolyn Barske Crawford, University of North Alabama 3. An Island of Trees Called Old Hickory: History and Place in the Mississippi Delta Brian Dempsey, University of North Alabama 4. When a Tree Falls: Listening to and Managing Connecticut?s Historic Landscape Leah S. Glaser, Central Connecticut State University 5.
The Trees of the South Mountain Cultural Landscape 99 Liz Sargent, Liz Sargent HLA, Charlottesville, Virginia 6. Mormon Women, Mulberry Trees, and Environmental Transformation in the American West Sasha Coles, Penn State University Part II: Trees as Symbols and Interpreted Objects 7. George Washington?s Cherry Tree: Ferry Farm?s Prunus serotina and Historical Placemaking Philip Levy, University of South Florida 8. Sam Robinson?s Sycamore Mariaelena DiBenigno, William & Mary?s Highland 9. The Fox Oaks of Flushing, New York: Quaker Pulpit and Bowne Family Shrine Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University 10. Pine Trees and the Legacy of the Shingwauk Site Krista McCracken, Algoma University 11. Oaks of Ill Repute: Dark Tourism, Dissonant Heritage, and Savannah?s Hanging Trees Alena Pirok, Georgia Southern University 12. Living Memory in Los Angeles: Cornelius Johnson?s 1936 Olympic Oak in Art, History, and Preservation; Christian Kosmas Mayer in Conversation with Alaina Scapicchio Christian Kosmas Mayer, Vienna Alaina Scapicchio, University of South Florida Afterword: Branching Out Further David Glassberg, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst Notes Index.