The Pinkest Party on Earth: Macon Georgia's International Cherry Blossom Festival - Softcover

Grisamore, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881464805 ISBN 13: 9780881464801

Verlag: Mercer University Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

In 1952, William Arthur Fickling, Sr, discovered the identity of three mystery trees in his front yard in Macon, Georgia. That same year, his future daughter-in-law, Neva Jane Langley, won the title of Miss America. The trees had been planted by a landscaper who had mistaken them for dogwoods. They were Yoshino cherry trees, not native to Middle Georgia. An avid gardener, Fickling began rooting them. He gave away more than 120,000 trees in his lifetime and became known in the community as "Johnny Cherryseed.'' The breathtaking blossoms inspired Carolyn Crayton, of the Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful Commission, to start a festival honoring Fickling for his contributions. In his ninth book, The Pinkest Party on Earth, Macon newspaper columnist Ed Grisamore tells the story of how a city wraps itself in pink each spring and has become the cherry blossom capital of the world, with more than 300,000 flowering cherry trees.

Biografía del autor:

Ed Grisamore is a columnist for The Telegraph in Macon, Georgia. He was the recipient of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, presented by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Grisamore is the author of eight other books, and was named 2012 Georgia Author of the Year in the essays category.

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• Verlag: Mercer University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0881464805
• ISBN 13: 9780881464801
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 277