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Title: Annual program for the observance of Arbor day in the schools of Rhode Island .
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Rhode Island. Office of Commissioner of Education Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University). Periodicals. RPB
Subjects: Arbor Day
Publisher: (Providence)
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ervoir Basin is the black spruce swamp of Labrador, while in BlockIsland ponds is a plant-cousin of the great Amazon water lily (Victoria regia). Then wehave cornfields which furnish the white meal of our Rhode Island johnny cake, clearstreams which glide through rich meadows, and lastly our parks and boulevards. To many people Rhode Island is a summer playground, yet many of us stay-at-homessee nothing in the backyard but clotheslines, in the garden but weeds, on the boulevardsbut automobiles and pedestrians. We, too, must get out on deck and admire our own land-scapes. We see what we look for. From the same boat the pilot sees the buoys to guidehis course, the fi.sherman the weather signs, the bird-lover the sand pipers on the beach,and the artist the beautiful colorings. We may all look at the same things but do notnecessarily see them. If we do not get out of doors and enjoy the common beauties ofour own yards and fields we shall not be able to enjoy the scenes of other lands. The
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The Passing of a Valley. Irving Avenue, near the East Side Fire Station. An example of the effects of the spreading out of a large city. Picture taken in the late fall, 1911. pictures with this article give you a chance of finding new ways of looking at our beautiesand wonders. I. The Town or City Beautiful. Before another Arbor Day the scene in picture three will be promoted to the dignityof a park. Picture two shows the way it looked in 1911 and picture one gives an idea ofhow it probably appeared a long time ago. The same story might be represented bywords, as—path, road, street, boulevard; forest, field, vacant lots, park; Indians, settlers,•country folks; city people, hunting, farming, trading, manufacturing; wigwam, cabin,homestead, apartments. You can think of other words that name the chapters in thehistory of Gladys Potter Memorial Gardens. The first story I am going to suggest that you write is the history of Gladys PotterMemorial Gardens. Talk about it with some of the

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