A Museum of Trees That Speak of History

clipped from www.nytimes.com A Museum of Trees That Speak of History Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times ART PROJECT Katie Holten, near a white pine on the grounds of the Andrew Freedman Home that will be Tree No. 34. The notion that the Grand Concourse could be turned into a long boulevard of talking trees — a tree museum, with trees connecting to oral guides of Bronx history — came to Katie Holten one day when she was traipsing along the boulevard near the Cross Bronx Expressway. She has marked out 100 trees along the Concourse, which is about four and a half miles long. Each one will have a sign that gives a phone number and a code to listen to short recordings of people speaking about the Bronx, their lives and their work. The tree museum will open on June 21. At the time, about two years ago, Ms. Holten was competing for an art commission to commemorate the centennial of the Concourse this year and racking her brain for a way to tell the story of the place and its people.

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