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Just over 20 years ago, City of Davis staff teamed with volunteer
tree activists to produce a pocket-size booklet titled Downtown Tour of Landmark Trees. I reproduce it here.
One can see that it chronicles the locations and features of
16 trees in the new University City “Downtown” that have survived from the Ag
Village and College Town eras.
In looking at the booklet after not having read it in
a long time, I was struck with how so-long-ago and out-of-date it appears. What
was once new, has become quite old, even though now “classic” and “historic.”
Let me be clear that I present this document as an artifact
of Davis history that represents the Davis past in a certain way, not as an
account of Davis historical facts that is true. In fact, I think it contains at least one major historical error (in the passage highlighted in green on
page 4) and there may be others.
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