| Sarah Brightman – The Ash Grove, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 1) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Ironically, my grade school teacher Miss. Von Low had our class sing The Ash Grove for a winter assembly, and I earned the solo part. She chose this song because our towns namesake Elm trees were succumbing to Dutch Elm Disease during my childhood of the 1970's, and because our indigenous American Ash species would be the tree that filled in the holes the dead Elms left behind in our nearby woods. That is because our local ecosystem is Oak-Elm-Ash. Now years later this song is my main influence helping to develop my passions for becoming Chicagolands premier expert on the Extinction event of our American Ash tree Fraxinus species. Now I am preserving the best of our communities Ash trees that have 300-6OO year lifespans, so many generations have the chance to see the light through its branches breaking, and the host of kind faces gazing on them from their friends of childhood. | |
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