A few more acorns for good measure, from The Cloisters in Baltimore - Street Road

A few more acorns for good measure, from The Cloisters in Baltimore

10/29/2014

Clockwise from left: Annie Noel Applegarth, Adrian Barron, Emily Artinian, and Ella, enchanted by a sprouting acorn.

For Saturday's art event, Street Road has collected well over 1000 acorns from our local Londonderry Township and London Grove Meeting Penn Oaks, but for good measure we took a jaunt to Maryland today: (a) because Supervene Forest artist Adrian Barron - visiting from the UK - has a soft spot for Baltimore, and (b) because Delaware artist Carol Maurer insisted we couldn't do an oak tree project without collecting acorns at The Cloisters, with it's 60 acre oak forest, excellently run by her cousin Annie Noel Applegarth. (Big bonus: Annie was also location scout for The Wire - who knew where the hunt for acorns would lead?)

Collecting, with the Cloisters in the background. Built in the 1930s by Sumner and Dudrea Parker, the property is now owned by the City of Baltimore.

Finally, Carole demonstrates the best way to whistle - with an acorn cap.
We think Adrian is a little in awe - 'I didn't grow up in Baltimore' sums it up really:

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We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.