March 2025:

A lovely update with photos shared by Professor Ann Sherif!

On March 12, 2025, Oberlin College students & faculty met the magnificent Green Legacy wisteria nurtured by Kendal at Oberlin residents and staff. As a bitterly cold Ohio winter gives way to spring, we gathered to plan signs for the hibaku jumoku nisei wisteria at Kendal and the gingkos at Oberlin College. Oberlin College students Kana Sakamoto and Kisa Biely spoke about their visit to the parent wisteria at Senda Elementary School in Hiroshima. With an unstable international order and nuclear weapons in play, Oberlin residents pledged to care for the trees and to spread their messages of hope, and danger.