Ginkgo Dreams - Celebrating Ginkgo

The people’s challenge to the government was reflexive. They fought to survive. Nevertheless, the historic implication of their resistance was significant. For the first time since the peasant rebellion of 1894, the people had seized a region and were ready to forge a new order on their own. Slowly, the people of Kwangju began to realize the significance of the liberation they had won. Everywhere, people talked about what they had done during the uprising and what they should do now. Kŭmnam Avenue was already clean early that morning. All the debris was cleared and carted away by commandeered military trucks. Tow trucks pulled the burnt husks of vehicles off the streets. Only the ginkgo trees lining the avenue showed the scars of battle: the clouds of tear gas had defoliated the trees.

Lee Jai-eui, Kwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age, page 101

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I almost passed over Inspector Ginkgo Tips His Hat to Sherlock Holmes, but the line “After a morning in Cambridge, Ginkgo, the macrobiotic detective...” from this review hooked me.

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I found Pearl Moscowitz’s Last Stand, a children’s book by Arthur A. Levine at a local library.

Pearl Moscovitz’s Last Stand is the story of the street on which Pearl grew up, and the ginkgo trees planted there. In fits and starts, the trees begin to disappear, one to lightning, another to make way for a bus stop, and most of them to make room for new development, until there is only one tree left. Pearl saves the last ginkgo tree with some charm, great food, and a little activism.

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There are other places besides Amazon to buy Ginkgo Biloba - A Global Treasure: From Biology to Medicine, but wherever I buy it, it will cost me a pretty penny. It will, however, be a good investment.

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