Washington D.C. & The Cherry Blossom Festival

The history of the beloved Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C.

Episode Transcript

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The Cherry Blossom Festival of Washington,d C will discuss as we took a
bite out of history with ingles markets. It was first the idea of d
C socialite Eliza Skidmore and first LadyHelen Taff to plant Japanese cherry trees along
the Potomac. Tap spent time livingin Japan and knew of the great beauty
the Japanese cherry trees offered. Thenthe Japanese Council quickly learned of the ladies
wishes and decided to give the treesfrom the government of Japan to the United

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States. In January of nineteen ten, two thousand trees arrived from Japan,
but sadly, disease killed them alongthe journey. A private citizen in Japan
put up the money and replace thetrees. Two years later, on March
twenty seventh, nineteen twelve, thefirst two trees were planted along the Potomac
River with a formal ceremony. Intotal, three thy twenty trees were planted
along the Potomac and on the groundsof the White House. The trees provided

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immediate beauty, and in nineteen thirtyfour d C commissioned the official Cherry Blossom
Festival in nineteen forty one. Japanattacked the United States at Pearl Harbor at
the end of World War Two,cutting to the trees along the Potomac were
set back to Japan to help restorethe trees lost in the atomic bombs.
This has been a bite out ofhistory. With Ingles Mark, it's