WWI Memorial Tree: Barton Library Genealogist Whitney Curry holds French soil from the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France. The soil will be used in the planting of a Willow Tree for the centennial observation of World War I. The tree will be planted at the Roy V. Kinard American Legion Post 10 in El Dorado. The project is through a partnership of the Arkansas World War I Centennial Commemoration Committee and the Arkansas Forestry Commission in which Arkansans are urged to plant trees to remember the 71,862 Arkansans who served during the Great War, including the 2,183 who died while in service. The goal is to have a memorial tree in each of Arkansas’s 75 counties by the time the commemoration concludes at the end of 2018.
