Tree of Life in New Orleans

by Kathleen K Parker

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Tree of Life in New Orleans

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Kathleen K Parker

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Photograph - Photography/digital Art

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Here is a hand tinted photo of The Tree of Life in Audubon Park, New Orleans. From myneworleans.com comes the following history of this tree: "Etienne de Bor� Oak, Audubon Park, New Orleans: Locally, in the neighborhoods surrounding Audubon Park, this oak has been dubbed The Tree of Life, though its registered name with the Live Oak Society is the Etienne de Bor� Oak. It�s an enormous oak with a girth of approximately 35 feet and a crown of more than 160 feet located in Audubon Park in an old-growth oak grove on the downriver side of Audubon Zoo. It was No. 13 on Edwin Lewis Stephens� list of 34 original inductee trees when he founded the Live Oak Society in 1934. The tree�s namesake, Jean Etienne de Bor�, is most significant in Louisiana history for being the first French planter to successfully granulate sugar cane into sugar, paving the way for sugar cane to become the main crop, surpassing indigo and tobacco, in antebellum Louisiana. De Bor� also served as the first mayor of New Orleans; he was appointed to the position by Gov. William C.C. Claiborne in 1803, the same year Louisiana was transferred from Spain to France. However, he resigned the position in 1804, after New Orleans became an American colony through the Louisiana Purchase." kkp

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April 11th, 2013

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