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May’s Tree of the Month: Monterey Pine
A tree is a versatile metaphor for life itself — indeed, examples of this are scattered across our cultural history as a thousand leaves upon an autumn lawn. From the […]
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April’s Tree of the Month: Deodar Cedar
By Cypress Lawn Arboretum Director Josh Gevertz Looking up into the canopy above me, on an afternoon stroll across the Arboretum grounds, a sure sign of the turn of spring […]
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March’s Tree of the Month: Cork Oak
Perhaps no singular tree in the entire Cypress Lawn Arboretum collection is so grand as this – unassuming, still, in the lee of the ever-so-stately Hammond family monument, its gargantuan […]
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February’s Tree of the Month: Monterey Cypress
By Josh Gevertz, Arboretum Director at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park As our namesake tree at the Cypress Lawn Arboretum, the Monterey cypress is a unique species that we treasure as […]
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The Truthful Facts of Ishi and Alfred L. Kroeber’s Friendship
By Richard Burrill April 8, 2022 Please know that Cypress Lawn has recently acquired Olivet Memorial Park in Colma. Situated at the base of the San Bruno Mountains, with huge […]
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AT REST AT CYPRESS LAWN: Henry Newhall: Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
Arriving in San Francisco in July 1850 after a six month sea journey from Massachusetts, twenty-five year old auctioneer Henry Mayo Newhall made a beeline for the Sierra Nevada foothills […]
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At Rest in Cypress Lawn: Charles Howard: King of Horsepower & King of Horses
Charles Howard perched in the driver’s seat of a 1906 Buick in San Francisco Upon his discharge from the Army in 1903, Charles Howard boards a train for San […]
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“The Flying Fool” of Cypress Lawn
“It hard to imagine the admiration that that followed Beachey everywhere. He was Lindbergh at his prime, DiMaggio, all the stars of stage and screen combined, with Superman thrown […]
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PART 2 of the Great 1918 Pandemic in San Francisco: “To Mask Or Not To Mask, That Is The Question.”
Part 1 looked at how San Francisco faced the great health crisis of 1918-1919. Link: https://www.cypresslawnheritagefoundation.org/blog/1918-pandemic-san-francisco-masked-man/ It is an “only in San Francisco” story. In no other city is the […]
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The 1918 Pandemic in San Francisco: Who Was That Masked Man!?
High noon. November 21, 1918. A blaring whistle heard throughout the city announces the Great Unmasking. Thousands of citizens flood outdoors for the occasion, and the masks fly off in unison. To shed […]