Now Online: Lecture on the Grassroots Movement That Saved the Arboretum from the Thomson Expressway
Save the Arboretum demonstration, Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, 1969. Photo by Tom Barlet, Courtesy MOHAI (Image No. 1986.5.50706).
On May 21, Franklin Butler gave a superb lecture about his involvement in and personal memories of the grassroots activism in the 1960s and 1970s that helped shut down the R.H. Thomson Expressway—a freeway project that threatened to destroy much of the west side of the Arboretum.
If you missed the lecture, you can now watch a video of it on YouTube. Thanks to Al Wagar for shooting and editing the film, and to Bob Edmiston for posting.
Franklin’s lecture was hosted by the Foundation as part of the Pacific Connections Garden Series, an enrichment activity for the Arboretum’s Pacific Connections Garden Stewards program.
