The Family Tree Re-Listen
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Dylan. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, Manolo. |
| 0:10.0 | How are you? |
| 0:11.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:13.0 | Everything's fine. |
| 0:15.0 | So I'm back again, and this time I have a voice memo for you to listen to. |
| 0:20.0 | Great. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm excited to hear it. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | So this voice memo is from Alex Katz, and they have this vivid memory of this giant oak tree |
| 0:29.0 | and peoria Illinois where they grew up. |
| 0:32.0 | And the tree is surrounded by so much history. |
| 0:35.0 | And this is what they had to say. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:40.0 | My name is Alex Katz, and I use they-them pronouns. |
| 0:43.0 | I grew up in peoria, Illinois, and one of my most powerful and surreal childhood memories |
| 0:49.0 | was going to Giant Oak Park once in elementary middle school. |
| 0:53.0 | I remember being overwhelmed by the scale of it all. |
| 0:56.0 | The density and bright greenness of the leaves, the age the tree was supposed to be at least 500 years. |
| 1:05.0 | And the feeling that somewhere in among those packed leaves was something wonderful or terrifying up in or next to the trunk. |
| 1:15.0 | A couple of decades past, and I kind of forgot about it, kind of thought I dreamed it when I called my parents. |
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