ideastream: John Grabowski, the Krieger Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History, provided his expertise in a story about a historic English oak tree being replanted at Rockefeller Pond in ...
OAKVILLE — An English oak tree linked to Olympic great Jesse Owens was planted by three of his granddaughters Thursday on soil where the grandson of former slaves got his start as a runner.
The champions of the 1936 Berlin Olympics received a unique gift: along with their gold medals, they were given one-year-old English oak trees (Quercus pedunculata) measuring 50–70 centimetres in ...