 This one does. Oh, yeah. You go up and raise it like that. Yeah. I'll have you got to get a picture. Yeah. Yeah. I find that it's good to do some badges. I know. Yeah, I just think you just do a doorknob. What time is the movie? I can't wait to see that. This is how you do it. Thank you. I'm going to get the entire... The year of morack. I'm going to put this later. Okay. Is this one good? Yeah, you must be. Oops. So why is it so visible? It's a bear. It's a bear. It was just a banner as they were there. I went to the University of Georgia, so. Yeah, the Spanish minus. Amazing. Yeah. Now I'm going to choose something. Nothing? Yeah. I have a recipe. Oh, I lose all the time. But usually in the house. So I used to email my kids and say, What's your date of the last week? Call your dates. Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, little girl. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay. Okay. Before you leave, take one of these post-it notes and just put on your post-it note how you would be a laurax today. How would you speak for the trees? Does everybody know the story of the laurax? Yeah. All of the troughilla trees down and there were no more troughilla trees left. And it costs all kinds of problems. It ruined the environment. It smelled bad. And the birds that were flying couldn't fly because the air was awful. And the water got dirty. And the laurax was so upset. The whole time he'd been saying, Don't put the troughilla trees down. We need them. So the laurax was speaking for the trees and he ended up in a town where all by himself was so upset. And this little kid came and said, I've come to talk to you about the troughilla trees. Tell me what I need to know. And the laurax dropped one seed out of the tower and the little boy picked up the seed from the laurax that you want. Go plant the seed and grow your own trees in a mental town. Thank you. If there's something that you can do with the tree. He got one seed from the first tree. So wow! That one is a huge part of the tree. A drawing for my nature. And to put it in the tree. I haven't seen a lot of berries but they're not nutritious. They're not nutritious. They're invasive. So I'm serving numerical at local areas. And part of my service is about And so I'm hoping, I mean, you know, I can do that in the parks, but I'll probably, I can't, I don't know the drill. Do y'all know how to do the sound of the canyon? Okay, this, this rent is really special. You find it in the desert, and it starts out like this. It comes into the waterfall. It's so beautiful. I love having whistlers. We should have, when we go to do the happy birthday song, we should all do a whistler, okay? So you're a whistler. By the way, today when we do the happy birthday song, we're going to do it in English. We're going to do it in Spanish. We're going to do it in Hebrew. We're going to do it in American sign language. We're going to do it in French. We're going to do it in Italian. We're going to do it in Vermont. We're going to do it in the diversity of languages. Isn't that cool? So, we'll do it for, okay, we've got Irish. Is that Celtic, or Gaelic, or Irish? Irish. Irish. I'm so happy to hear that. And we'll finish it off with a whistler. My name is Lynn Wild, I'm on the American Forest. I'm on the Montpelier Tree Wars. And I want to welcome all of you to our Fort Festival of Trees. This festival, First Day of Trees, which started in Israel a thousand years ago. Nova. So it started about 3,000 years ago, and it started as a thing to just collect taxes on trees. But as time went on, people realized that if we're going to notice what trees are flowering at the same time every year, why don't we celebrate them, because the trees are really special. And trees are really special. And we're going to see a film in a few minutes that really addresses just how special they are. And it's really interesting about the kind of people that are drawn to trees. And I want to thank a number of special people that have helped us be here today. First of all, he's not with us today, but his spirit is here. John Snell. John Snell's work is on the wall. He's taken a lot of the rock photographs. He assembled some of the identification boards over here and a lot of other things. John Snell is the chair of our tree board. He's been the chair 24 years. And if you are a member of the Montpelier Tree Board, can you kind of step out so people can see you? So Abby, Jeff, John. Janet. Janet, who else? Steve Bailey, you're being too shy. Okay, who else is here that's on the tree board? Oh, yeah. All right. And then we have our amazing tree warden. Did you all know that Montpelier has a warden for trees? That would be Jeff Byer. The lucky Byer. All right. The other group that we'd like to thank today is the AmeriCorps members because they make up a lot of our volunteers today. So if you're an AmeriCorps member, can you step forward? I'd like to thank the people who've come to share their knowledge with us today. We have, starting in this corner, we have Sean from Friends of the Buenos Aires. We have Joseph, who is here to speak about the crazy snake words. We have Cassandra Hemingway, who is here with Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District. She's going to help answer questions about how to take food scraps and make nourishing soil to feed your trees. We have the raffle table, and there are some really beautiful prizes back there. We have Ruth Coversmith. Gosh. I know you so well. My mind just went, shh. We have Ruth Coversmith, who is talking to you about the Festival of Trees from the Jewish calendar. We have, I'm a sneaky pest person back there. We're from Joanne Garden. Where's Joanne? I'm right here. Joanne Garden is here with us from the urban and community forest tree program. And so she is with our own board member, John Akulashak. And he has developed a plan for us to deal with the Emerald Ash Board here in Central Vermont. We have Orca here with us filming. And behind the camera back there is David Erich. And he is just being really nice and quiet. Nobody even knew he was here until I said something. And then we have tree identifications here. We have our amazing door prizes. So that's what we have out here. Now, as you came in, how many of you saw this line? Raise your hand. How many of you saw this line that said, Welcome to Montpelier's Tree Imaginarium? All right. After we're through and we have keg and sing birthday songs, we're going to imagine what it's like to be a tree. And Abby's going to come out things like, she's going to call out, Imagine you're a tree and there's a porcupine climbing up. How are you going to act? Imagine you're a tree and there's a woodpecker pecking on you, building a nest. How are you going to act? So we'll do that later. But this is the Tree Imaginarium. And really what I'd like you all to think about, two things. If trees could talk to you, what would they tell you? What would they say to you today? What would they say to you this year? What are they thinking? Just imagine yourself a tree. Your favorite tree. What would your tree say to you? Before you leave today, if you could tell us how you would speak for the trees and the signs up on the door before you leave, you can go out and write it down on the post-it list. How you would speak to the trees. Because really, truly, and this is what this film is going to show you, this film we're about to see is called Taking Group. It's the story of Wangari Mahtai. Wangari Mahtai has a message. She is a model and she is a mentor for all of us. And she will show you how trees... That's right! How did that go? She will show us how trees are part of the life support system on Earth. That is so intrinsic to our survival and to our well-being. And so she is going to be talking to you. And we're just going to go through a little bit of this film. I'm not taking you through the whole thing because it's quite long. But if you really like what you see today, you can come to Kellogg Hubbard and then we'll show you the whole film. It is an amazing story. This is a woman who with other women planted 34 million trees and changed the world there. So you're going to get to see that. And I don't want to tell you too much more about it. How many of you... this is your first time in this film? Welcome! Thank you for coming. We're so glad you could be here. Everyone, thank you children, thank you parents. Shall we? I grew up in the countryside. And as a small young girl, there was a huge tree that was near our home instead. And next to our tree was a stream. My mother told me to not collect firewood from the fig tree by the stream. I said, why? And she said, because that tree is a tree of God. I didn't know what she was talking about. But I would run there and collect water for my mother. The stream actually came out of the ground gushing up from the belly of the earth. Now sometimes there would be thousands upon thousands of frogs. They are black, they are brown, they are white, they are beautiful. I didn't know they were frogs. I would just see these bees. And I would put my little hands under the leaf and try to lift them in the belief that I could put them around my neck and decorate myself. I would spend hours trying to lift them up. Here I am and I am so small and I'm playing with frogs and tadpoles between the fig tree and the stream. It was beautiful. Let's get started. Happy birthday to Happy Bird, Happy Bird.