Georgia’s Linsday Thomas used to gather acorns when he served in Congress.
said Wednesday morning as we walked on Capitol Hill near the Taft Carillon.
“There’s two families of oak: whites and reds,” he explained. “All the reds have a pointed leaf at the end. White oaks have lobes.”As a boy, Thomas spent countless hours on his uncle’s farm — Grace Acres — and the woods around it. These woods weren’t composed of the original longleaf pines of an ancient, old-growth forest, but comprised a second forest that grew after the first had been cut. It had been allowed to come back naturally.
Some of the trees he recognized. Some were new to him. Many of the trees had little explanatory tags placed by the Architect of the Capitol’s office noting what species it was or to whom it was dedicated.Then as now, politicians would give their constituents U.S. flags that had flown atop the Capitol as souvenirs. Maybe, Thomas thought, he could do the same thing with trees. He decided to plant acorns from Capitol Hill oak trees on his farm, then give away the saplings.
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