{"id":294353141,"date":"2014-04-30T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=294353141"},"modified":"2014-04-30T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:45:41","slug":"historic-trees-by-bike-may-4-1000-am-1200-pm-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=294353141","title":{"rendered":"Historic Trees by Bike: May 4 @ 10:00 am &#8211; 12:00 pm\t $15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tribe-events-event-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baltimoreheritage.org\/event\/historic-trees-by-bike-douglass-oak-washingtons-elms-and-more-leafy-landmarks\/\" title=\"Historic Trees by Bike: Douglass\u2019 Oak, Washington\u2019s Elms, and more Leafy Landmarks\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/view-howard-park.jpg\" title=\"Historic Trees by Bike: Douglass\u2019 Oak, Washington\u2019s Elms, and more Leafy Landmarks\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content entry-content description\">\n<p><em>\u201cView of Baltimore from Howard\u2019s Park,\u201d George Beck, 1796, Maryland Historical Society. Image from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-athenaeum.org\/art\/detail.php?ID=19042\">The Antheneum<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We know that Baltimore is full of great historic buildings, but who knew that our city can boast a wonderful collection of historic trees? Among the dozens of our city\u2019s leafy landmarks stands an English Elm that shaded Frederick Douglass as he delivered a public speech in 1878 in Sharp Leadenhall, one of George Washington\u2019s celebrated \u201cCambridge Elms\u201d (planted in 1932 as part of our first president\u2019s 200th birthday celebration), and a baby Wye Oak that President Gerald Ford planted in 1976 at Fort McHenry. And that\u2019s not to mention the exceptionally rare European Turkey Oak (Quercus cerrus) that graces the War of 1812 battery now called Riverside Park.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us and the Urban Forestry Division of the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks on an easy-going bike tour of historic trees in Central and South Baltimore. Mr. Gary Letteron, urban forester and tree champion extraordinaire, will lead the tour and talk horticulture and history as we wind our way through Federal Hill and parts of South Baltimore. The tour will start and end at the parking lot of the Baltimore Museum of Industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To register: <a href=\"https:\/\/baltimoreheritage.org\/event\/historic-trees-by-bike-douglass-oak-washingtons-elms-and-more-leafy-landmarks\/\">https:\/\/baltimoreheritage.org\/event\/historic-trees-by-bike-douglass-oak-washingtons-elms-and-more-leafy-landmarks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cView of Baltimore from Howard\u2019s Park,\u201d George Beck, 1796, Maryland Historical Society. Image from The Antheneum. We know that Baltimore is full of great historic buildings, but who knew that our city can boast a wonderful collection of historic trees? Among the dozens of our city\u2019s leafy landmarks stands an English Elm that shaded Frederick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=294353141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Historic Trees by Bike: May 4 @ 10:00 am &#8211; 12:00 pm\t $15&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294353141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294353141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294353141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294353141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294353141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294353141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294353141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}