Visual Education (Jan-Dec 1922)

Page scan 000228 from Visual Education

Record Details:

Title:
Visual Education
Date:
Jan-Dec 1922
Publisher:
Society for Visual Education, inc.
Volume:
Visual Education (Jan-Dec 1922)
Leaf #:
000228
Language:
English
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
September 19, 2024
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VISUAL EDUCATION to the General Sherman in size and age. How Old is "General Sherman"? Scientists have figured that the General Sherman tree, for instance, has reached its four-thousandth birthday, having been a thriving young seedling several thousand years before Christ was born. Such a tree history is almost impossible to comprehend. One stands appalled before these hoary forest giants, which are doubtless the oldest living things on this earth. Standing amid them one is overcome with a sense of being in some Brobdingnagian forest. One feels, somehow, that from out the dim woodland shadows cast by these giants, monster prehistoric animals must presently appear in order to giye proper scale to the surroundings. These trees belong to the species Sequoia Washingtoniana, being one of two species of sequoias on the Pacific Coast. The other species, the Sequoia Sempervirens, is found farther to the north. To Save the Redwoods Even now a large body of patriotic, public-spirited men and women are "THE BLACK CAUSEWAY" Some prehistoric fire burned its way through the mighty trunk of this giant tree, and today the Circle Meadow Trail leads the Park visitor through the ancient gap. So great is the vitality of these forest kings that, high above even such mutilations of age and accident, the tree in many cases still puts forth new branches and raises its imposing though battered head to a new century of storms.