Join us and our esteemed guests from Lichfield, England as we unveil the plaque and dedicate the 6th generation descendent of the Johnson’s Willow. The original Johnson’s Willow grew on the banks of Stowe Pool in Lichfield and is named for the writer Samuel Johnson who was so fond of the tree that he had […]
You may remember our earlier piece on the Lichfield, or Johnson’s, Willow, a tree in England that captured Elizabeth’s imagination and led to her writing of two “Odes to the Litchfield Willow” (Elizabeth added the “t”). Our contact in England, John Winterton, has been hard at work negotiating a plan to get a descendent of […]