LPPM MMV "Cherry Blossoms"

[Dave Monroe]

"All day the rain clouds had hung low and ragged-edged
over Washington, ruining the view from the top of the
Monument for the high-school kids on their senior
trips, sending brief squalls which drove tourists
squealing and cursing in to finmd shelter, dulling the
delicate pink of the cherry blossoms which had just
come out." (MMV, p. 1)


"the Monument"

Dedicated - 1885
National Memorial - August 2, 1876

http://www.nps.gov/wash/index.htm

http://www.nps.gov/wash/

History of the
WASHINGTON MONUMENT
1844-1968
Washington, D.C.

by
George J. Olszewski

April 1971

http://www.nps.gov/wamo/history/

http://www.nps.gov/wamo/history/contents.htm

http://www.nps.gov/wamo/home.htm/


"cherry blossoms"

The National Cherry Blossom Festival annually
commemorates the 1912 gift to the city of Washington
of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo
to enhance the growing friendship between the United
States and Japan and celebrate the continued close
relationship between our two peoples. 

In a simple ceremony on March 27, 1912, First Lady
Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the
Japanese ambassador, planted the first two of these
trees on the north bank of the Tidal Basin in West
Potomac Park. By 1915 the United States government had
responded with a gift of flowering dogwood trees to
the people of Japan. In 1927, a group of American
school children reenacted the initial planting; the
first festival was held in 1935, sponsored by civic
groups in the nation's capital....

http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/cms/index.php?id=574

The National Cherry Blossom Festival, Inc.

http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/cms/index.php?id=390

The 2005 National Cherry Blossom Festival is scheduled
for March 26-April 11....

http://www.nps.gov/nacc/cherry/


		
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