The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
Part fascinating biography, part inspirational story, The Tree Lady is sure to resonate with readers young and old.
Katherine Olivia Sessions never thought she’d live in a place without trees. After all, Kate grew up among the towering pines and redwoods of Northern California. But after becoming the first woman to graduate from the University of California with a degree in science, she took a job as a teacher far south in the dry desert town of San Diego. Where there were almost no trees.
Kate decided that San Diego needed trees more than anything else. So this trailblazing young woman singlehandedly started a massive movement that transformed the town into the green, garden-filled oasis it is today. Now, more than 100 years after Kate first arrived in San Diego, her gorgeous gardens and parks exist all over the city.
- About the author: Jill McElmurry has lived in big towns and small towns, in mountains and valleys, beside the ocean and across the ocean, and now lives in Taos, New Mexico in a house with big windows that look out on mountains and sagebrush. She and her husband Harry spend the summer in a tiny cabin on a tiny island in a big lake in northern Minnesota.
