{"id":15581,"date":"2013-04-29T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=15581"},"modified":"2013-04-29T09:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:55:32","slug":"a-view-from-above-tree-planting-and-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2013\/04\/29\/a-view-from-above-tree-planting-and-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"A view from above &#8212; tree planting and a song!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons the 5th floor reading room is a lovely place to be&#8230; We see sun breaks in the clouds, we watch\u00a0travelers\u00a0traversing the quad, and we have fabulous collections to share. And last Friday we saw two great &#8220;views\u00a0from above&#8221; with a tree planting and impromptu concert from the\u00a0OSU Meistersingers.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years ago the class of 1913 planted the majestic elm trees we now enjoy in the Library Quad, and we celebrated Arbor Day &amp; Earth Week on April 26th at noon with another tree gifting. While our newest addition is still small, we have big hopes for it!<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"new elm planting\" href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/dept\/ncs\/lifeatosu\/2013\/new-elm-planting-honors-century-old-class-gift\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read all about it &#8212; and watch a video of the planting &#8212; at the LIFE@OSU site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And before the noon-hour was through the\u00a0OSU Meistersingers showed up! Quite a crowd of\u00a0lunch time wanderers stopped to listen and several students pulled out their phones to record to the serenade.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/files\/2013\/04\/Choral-concert-in-the-quad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15616\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/files\/2013\/04\/Choral-concert-in-the-quad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2013\/04\/Choral-concert-in-the-quad.jpg 800w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2013\/04\/Choral-concert-in-the-quad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2013\/04\/Choral-concert-in-the-quad-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2013\/04\/Choral-concert-in-the-quad-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choral concert in the quad<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Such a treat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons the 5th floor reading room is a lovely place to be&#8230; We see sun breaks in the clouds, we watch\u00a0travelers\u00a0traversing the quad, and we have fabulous collections to share. And last Friday we saw two great &#8220;views\u00a0from above&#8221; with a tree planting and impromptu concert from the\u00a0OSU Meistersingers. One hundred years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[233190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-page"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}