HPJ Students at Drinkwater Talk

Annie Hertzler, Erin Kerger, and Kelsey Brown broadened their horizons by attending a lecture by Carol Drinkwater, a British writer who has written about olive tree cultivation around the Medeterrenian.
 

"Her story about traveling around the Mediterranean was very interesting. She found 6,000 year old trees that were older than some of our own histories. The fact that warring countries try to plant olive trees to this day as a sign of peace was also surprising to me. Olive branches have always been in myths for being means of showing peace; I did not think people still actually used them as such. Her quote about nature regenerates I think was also meant to mean that humans can also do the same with forgiving each other."